Daily Calendar for Saturday, December 15, 2029

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Saturday, December 15, 2029

Born

  • Gustave Eiffel (architect)
  • Betty Smith (novelist)
  • Muriel Rukeyser (poet)
  • Tim Conway (comedian & actor)
  • Stuart Townsend (actor)
  • Adam Brody (actor)

Died

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

Events

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

Weather

  • An intense cold front swept the East Coast, dumping heavy rain on Louisiana and heavy snow on the Northeast
  • Great Blizzard hit the Prairie provinces
  • O’Hare Airport in Chicago was closed because of high winds and heavy snowfall
  • 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