Daily Calendar for Sunday, December 15, 2019

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Sitting Bull (Sioux Chief) – 1890
Walt Disney (Animator and theme park developer; died in Burbank, California) – 1966
Dick Stuart (also known as Dr. Strangeglove, baseball player) – 2002

The Bill of Rights, first ten amendments to U.S. Constitution, ratified – 1791
Fire at the U.S. Patent Office destroyed thousands of patent documents and models. – 1836
Philadelphia streets were first cleaned by a machine – 1854
Battle of Fredericksburg ends in defeat of union troops by Confederate General Robert E. Lee (Civil War) – 1862
Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Jefferson Memorial took place in Washington D.C. – 1938
Gone With the Wind premiered, at Loew’s Grand Theater in Atlanta, Georgia – 1939
Commemorative stamp depicting Echo I, world’s first passive communications satellite, issued by U.S. post office, D.C., 1960 – 1960
First rendezvous of two manned spacecraft, Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 – 1965
Venera 7 Soviet unmanned spacecraft landed on Venus – 1970
Superman, starring Christopher Reeve, premiered – 1978

An intense cold front swept the East Coast, dumping heavy rain on Louisiana and heavy snow on the Northeast – 1901
Great Blizzard hit the Prairie provinces – 1964
O’Hare Airport in Chicago was closed because of high winds and heavy snowfall – 1987
Approximately 1.5 million homes and businesses in Washington and Oregon were without power after windstorms and heavy rains caused flooding, several deaths and closed two major bridges – 2006