Unlocking the Potential: Exploring the Significance of December 15 Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1953  WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, FL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting.   

1953  Kishio Hirao, composer, dies at 46.   

1954  Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter was featured on Walt Disney’s TV series for the inaugural time. Crockett was played by Fess Parker   

1954  Netherlands Antilles is recorded as becoming co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands   

1954  Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons.   

1956  Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes   

1959  Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me".   

1960  King Boudouin of Belgium marries dona Fabiola de Mora y Aragon   

1961  Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel   

1961  William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player, dies at 99.   

1962  Vaughn Meader's "The inaugural Family," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 12 wks.   

1962  Charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 63.   

1964  In this year, Canada formally adopts maple leaf flag   

1964  Maple Leaf' formally adopted as the symbol for the Canadian national flag.   

1965  3rd cyclone of year results in the deaths of another 10000 at mouths of Ganges River, Bangladesh   

1965  Gemini 6 launched; makes inaugural rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7).   

1965  In the inaugural raid on a major North Vietnamese industrial target, U.S. Air Force planes destroy a thermal power plant at Uong Bi, l4 miles north of Haiphong. The plant reportedly supplied about 15 percent of North Vietnam's total electric power production   

1966  Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus.   

1966  One of the greatest names in children’s television and movie production died on this day. Walt (Walter Elias) Disney died in Burbank, California. Mr. Disney was 65 years old.   

1966  Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation   

1967  Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"   

1967  The Silver Bridge across the Ohio River collapsed during rush hour. Dozens of cars fell into the icy water. Forty-six people lost their lives in the accident, and many others were injured.   

1968  Jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86   

1969  In this year, San Francisco Fire Department adopts in place of leather helmets with plastic ones   

1970  Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261.   

1970  Soviet Venera 7 is inaugural spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus).   

1972  Edward Earle, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight), dies at 90   

1973  Jean Paul Getty III, grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty, is are discovered alive in southern Italy five months after his kidnapping   

1973  Pirates of Caribbean opens at Disneyland   

1973  Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov, composer, dies at 61   

1974  Erich Walter Sternberg, composer, dies at 83   

1975  Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer, dies at 63.   

1976  Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when the ship runs aground   

1978  Chill Wills, actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders), dies at 75   

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