Today is Tuesday, Dec. 15, the 349th day of 2009. There are 16 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On Dec. 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights went into effect.
ON THIS DATE
In 1890, Sioux Chief Sitting Bull and 11 other tribe members were killed in Grand River, S.D., during a confrontation with Indian police.
In 1938, groundbreaking ceremonies for the Jefferson Memorial took place in Washington, D.C., with President Franklin D. Roosevelt taking part.
In 1939, the motion picture “Gone With the Wind” had its world premiere in Atlanta.
In 1944, a plane carrying bandleader Glenn Miller, a major in the U.S. Army Air Forces, disappeared over the English Channel while en route to Paris.
In 1961, former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death by an Israeli court.
In 1965, two U.S. manned spacecraft, Gemini 6A and Gemini 7, maneuvered to within 10 feet of each other while in orbit.
In 1979, the deposed Shah of Iran left the United States for Panama, the same day the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, issued a provisional order for Iran to release all its American hostages.
In 2008, President-elect Barack Obama said a review by his own lawyer showed he had no direct contact with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich about the appointment of a Senate replacement, and that transition aides “did nothing inappropriate.”
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