15th December anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1859
  • Poland
  • "Birth of L.L. Zamenhof, Polish doctor, inventor of the Esperanto language"
  • 1907
  • Richard Crossman born 1907 (died 1974). Labour politician known for his sometimes lively political diaries.
• event
  • 1938
  • United States
  • "The groundbreaking ceremony for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial took place in Washington, D.C.."
  • 1993
  • "117 nations signed the revised General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in Geneva, Switzerland."
  • 1993
  • "British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds made the ‘Downing Street Declaration’, aimed at achieving lasting peace in Northern Ireland.."
• Death
  • 1958
  • Switzerland
  • "Death of Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss-American theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner."
  • 1966
  • "Death of Walt Disney, American film and TV producer who pioneered animated cartoon films"
  • 1984
  • "Death of Lennard Pearce, British actor (played Grandad in Only Fools and Horses)"