Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183 crashes in the desert near Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, killing 85. Date: December 15, 1997 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 15 📅 Events on this day in 1997 📅 On This Day (Today)
The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down. Date: December 15, 2000 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 15 📅 Events on this day in 2000 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it, without fixing its famous lean. Date: December 15, 2001 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 15 📅 Events on this day in 2001 📅 On This Day (Today)
Introduction of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor into USAF active service. Date: December 15, 2005 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 15 📅 Events on this day in 2005 📅 On This Day (Today)
A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia, killing 48 people. Date: December 15, 2010 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 15 📅 Events on this day in 2010 📅 On This Day (Today)
The South Sudanese Civil War begins when opposition leaders Dr. Riek Machar, Pagan Amum and Rebecca Nyandeng vote to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council at Nyakuron. Date: December 15, 2013 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 15 📅 Events on this day in 2013 📅 On This Day…
Gunman Man Haron Monis takes 18 hostages inside a café in Martin Place for 16 hours in Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed when police raid the café the following morning. Date: December 15, 2014 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 15 📅 Events on this day in 2014 📅…
A 6.5Mw earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Java in the city of Tasikmalaya, resulting in four deaths. Date: December 15, 2017 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 15 📅 Events on this day in 2017 📅 On This Day (Today)
Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law (quantum theory) at the Physic Society in Berlin. Date: December 14, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 14 📅 Events on this day in 1900 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu. Date: December 14, 1902 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 14 📅 Events on this day in 1902 📅 On This Day (Today)