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| December 15th, 2005 (December 15 2005) | Event | Latvia amends its constitution to eliminate possibility of same-sex couples being entitled to marry. | |
| December 15th, 2005 (December 15 2005) | Event | Argentina s president Nestor Kirchner announces the early repayment of its external debt to the IMF. | |
| December 15th, 2005 (December 15 2005) | Event | Introduction of the F-22 Raptor into USAF active service. | |
| December 15th, 2005 (December 15 2005) | Event | The 2005 Atlantic Power Outage began. | |
| December 15th, 2005 (December 15 2005) | Death | Heinrich Gross, Austrian physician (born in 1914) | |
| December 15th, 2005 (December 15 2005) | Death | Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer (born in 1915) | |
| December 15th, 2005 (December 15 2005) | Death | William Proxmire, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (born in 1915) | |
| December 15th, 2005 (December 15 2005) | Death | Darrell Russell, American football player (born in 1976) | |
| December 15th, 1995 (December 15 1995) | Event | The European Communities Court of Justice hands down the "Bosman ruling", giving EU footballers the right to a free transfer at the end of their contracts, with the provision that they are transferring from one UEFA Federation to another. | |
| December 15th, 1965 (December 15 1965) | Event | Gemini program: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieved the first space rendezvous with Gemini 7. | |
| December 15th, 1955 (December 15 1955) | Birth | Paul Simonon, English bassist (The Clash) | Paul Simon Quotes |
| December 15th, 1945 (December 15 1945) | Event | Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as state religion of Japan. | Douglas MacArthur Quotes |
| December 15th, 1945 (December 15 1945) | Birth | Thaao Penghlis, Australian actor | |
| December 15th, 1925 (December 15 1925) | Birth | Sam Pollock, Canadian ice hockey general manager | |
| December 15th, 1925 (December 15 1925) | Birth | Kasey Rogers, American actress (died in 2006) | |
| December 15th, 1915 (December 15 1915) | Event | World War I: Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig replaces John French, 1st Earl of Ypres as Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force. | |
| December 15th, 1875 (December 15 1875) | Birth | Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (died in 1899) | |
| December 15th, 1855 (December 15 1855) | Death | Jacques Charles Francois Sturm, French mathematician (born in 1803) | |
| December 15th, 1715 (December 15 1715) | Death | George Hickes, English minister and scholar (born in 1642) | |
| December 15th, 1675 (December 15 1675) | Death | Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (born in 1632) | |
| December 15th, 1025 (December 15 1025) | Death | Basil II, Byzantine Emperor (born in 958) | |
