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Events on December 15

• 1791 The Bill of Rights is incorporated as Amendments I to X in the Constitution of the United States.
• 1916 After the loss of all previously made territorial gains, the German attack on the French city of Verdun, which began on 21 February, is called off by the Supreme Army Command during the First World War. The Battle of Verdun cost the lives of a total of 350,000 French and 335,000 German soldiers.
• 1924 The traffic tower at Potsdamer Platz, with Germany's first traffic light, is put into operation.
• 1935 The Dutchman Max Euwe becomes the fifth World Chess Champion. He defeats his predecessor, the Russian exile Alexander Alekhine, in the 1935 World Chess Championship 15.5 to 14.5.
• 1939 In Atlanta, the four-hour romantic drama Gone with the Wind, the most expensive film of all time up to that point, premieres; it subsequently receives ten Oscars and becomes the most commercially successful film of all time after adjusting for inflation.
• 1949 The Federal Republic of Germany joins the Marshall Plan.
• 1961 The former SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann, who was responsible at the Reich Security Main Office for the bureaucratic implementation of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question,” is sentenced to death by the Jerusalem District Court in the Eichmann trial following the verdict of 11 December.
• 1975 Günter Guillaume and his wife Christel Boom are sentenced in the Federal Republic of Germany to 13 and 8 years' imprisonment, respectively, for treason in connection with the Guillaume Affair.
• 1983 In its census judgment, the German Federal Constitutional Court rules the Census Act enacted in 1982 unconstitutional and establishes the right to informational self-determination as a fundamental right.
• 1994 The old town of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt and the ironworks of Völklingen in Saarland are inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
• 2000 The last reactor unit III still in operation at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine is shut down.
• 2016 The American science fiction film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opens in German cinemas. It is considered the second most commercially successful film of the 2016 cinema year.

Born on December 15

• 1852 Antoine Henri Becquerel, French physicist and Nobel laureate
• 1892 J. Paul Getty, American businessman
• 1921 Evelyn Künneke, German singer and actress
• 1940 Barbara Valentin, German actress
• 1942 Dave Clark, British musician and songwriter
• 1962 Ingo Schulze, German writer
• 1970 Michael Shanks, Canadian actor
• 1980 Annalena Baerbock, German politician
• 1980 Anne Spiegel, German politician
• 1991 Pierre-Michel Lasogga, German footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „15. Dezember“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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