📜 This Day in History

December 15

• 533Byzantines led by Belisarius defeated the Vandal King Gelimer at the Battle of Tricamarum, completing the "Reconquest of North Africa" under Byzantine Emperor Justinian I.
• 1791The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified.
• 1871Sixteen-year-old Ella Stewart sent the first telegraphed message from Arizona Territory.
• 1943World War II: Australian and American forces began the Battle of Arawe against Japanese forces on New Britain as a diversion before a larger landing at Cape Gloucester.
• 1961Former Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death after being found guilty on fifteen criminal charges, including war crimes and crimes against humanity.
• 2019Citizenship Amendment Act protests: 10 to 15 local women blockaded a major road in Delhi, India, to protest the exclusion of Muslims from the amended Citizenship Act.

Born on this day

• 130Lucius Verus, Roman emperor (died 169)
• 1832Gustave Eiffel, French architect and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower (died 1923)
• 1852Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1908)
• 1859L. L. Zamenhof, Polish linguist and ophthalmologist, created Esperanto (died 1917)