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15 Dec 2009
Boeing 787 Dreamliner completes first flight.
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15 Dec 2004
Million Dollar Baby, directed by Clint Eastwood, was released. It went on to win Best Picture.
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15 Dec 1978
United States announces that it will recognize communist China.
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15 Dec 1973
The American Psychiatric Association officially declared that homosexuality is not a mental illness.
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15 Dec 1960
The red robin was officially named Britain's National Bird.
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15 Dec 1955
Johnny Cash released 'Folsom Prison Blues.'
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15 Dec 1944
Major Glenn Miller, musician, and composer, disappeared over the English Channel during a flight.
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15 Dec 1939
Gone with the Wind, the drama film directed by Victor Fleming, premiered in Atlanta, Georgia.
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15 Dec 1906
The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opened.
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15 Dec 1869
The Republic of Ezo, a separatist Japanese state, was established on the island of Ezo, Japan.
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15 Dec 1840
Napoleon Bonaparte finally had a funeral.
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15 Dec 1836
The US Patents Office was nearly completely burned down.
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15 Dec 1791
The US Bill of Rights was ratified when Virginia gave its approval, which became amendments 1-10 of the constitution.