Editing December 15 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1903]] &ndash; [[Italian American]] food cart vendor Italo Marchiony receives a [[United States patent law|U.S. patent]] for inventing a machine that makes [[ice cream cone]]s.<ref>{{cite book|last=Barth|first=Linda J.|title=A History of Inventing in New Jersey: From Thomas Edison to the Ice Cream Cone|location=Charleston, S.C.|publisher=The History Press|date=2013|isbn=9781626192065|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lex2CQAAQBAJ|page=61}}</ref>
*[[1905]] &ndash; The [[Pushkin House]] is established in [[Saint Petersburg]], Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of [[Alexander Pushkin]].
*[[1906]] &ndash; The [[London Underground]]'s [[Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway]] opens.
*[[1914]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: The [[Serbian Army]] recaptures [[Belgrade]] from the invading [[Austro-Hungarian Army]].
*  1914   &ndash; [[Hōjō Coal Mine Disaster|A gas explosion]] at [[Mitsubishi]] Hōjō coal mine, in [[Kyushu]], Japan, kills 687.
*[[1917]] &ndash; World War I: An [[armistice between Russia and the Central Powers]] is signed.
*[[1933]] &ndash; [[Anarchist insurrection of December 1933|Anarchist insurrection]] suppressed in [[Zaragoza]], [[Second Spanish Republic|Spain]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Casanova|first=Julián|author-link=Julián Casanova|year=2005|chapter=On the road to insurrection|title=Anarchism, the Republic and Civil War in Spain: 1931–1939|publisher=[[Routledge]]|translator-first1=Andrew|translator-last1=Dowling|translator-first2=Graham|translator-last2=Pollok|editor-first=Paul|editor-last=Preston|editor-link=Paul Preston|pages=75–76|isbn=0-415-32095-X}}</ref>
*[[1939]] &ndash; ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' (highest inflation adjusted grossing film) receives its premiere at [[Loew's Grand Theatre]] in [[Atlanta|Atlanta, Georgia]], United States.
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[The Holocaust in Ukraine]]: [[Nazi Germany|German]] troops murder over 15,000 Jews at [[Drobytsky Yar]], a ravine southeast of the city of [[Kharkiv]].
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: The [[Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse]] begins during the [[Guadalcanal Campaign]].
*[[1943]] &ndash; World War II: The [[Battle of Arawe]] begins during the [[New Britain campaign]].
*[[1944]] &ndash; World War II: a single-engine [[UC-64A Norseman]] aeroplane carrying [[United States Army Air Forces]] Major [[Glenn Miller]] is lost in a flight over the English Channel.
*[[1945]] &ndash; [[Occupation of Japan]]/[[Shinto Directive]]: General [[Douglas MacArthur]] orders that [[Shinto]] be abolished as the state religion of Japan.
*[[1960]] &ndash; [[Richard Paul Pavlick|Richard Pavlick]] is arrested for plotting to assassinate [[President-elect of the United States|U.S. President-Elect]] [[John F. Kennedy]].
*  1960   &ndash; King [[Mahendra of Nepal]] suspends the country's constitution, dissolves parliament, dismisses the cabinet, and imposes direct rule.
*[[1961]] &ndash; [[Eichmann trial]]: [[Adolf Eichmann]] is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an [[Judicial system of Israel|Israeli court]] of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.
*[[1965]] &ndash; [[Project Gemini]]: [[Gemini 6A]], crewed by [[Wally Schirra]] and [[Thomas P. Stafford|Thomas Stafford]], is launched from [[Cape Canaveral|Cape Kennedy]], [[Florida]]. Four orbits later, it achieves the first [[space rendezvous]], with [[Gemini 7]].
*[[1970]] &ndash; Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7]] successfully lands on [[Venus]]. It is the first successful soft [[List of landings on extraterrestrial bodies|landing on another planet]].
*[[1973]] &ndash; [[John Paul Getty III]], grandson of American billionaire [[J. Paul Getty]], is found alive near [[Naples]], Italy, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10.
*  1973   &ndash; The [[American Psychiatric Association]] votes 13–0 to remove [[homosexuality]] from its official list of [[Mental disorder|psychiatric disorder]]s, the [[Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders]].
*[[1978]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]] announces that the United States will [[China–United States relations|recognize the People's Republic of China]] and [[Taiwan–United States relations|sever diplomatic relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan)]].
*[[1981]] &ndash; A [[1981 Iraqi embassy bombing|suicide car bombing targeting the Iraqi embassy]] in [[Beirut|Beirut, Lebanon]], levels the embassy and kills 61 people, including Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon. The attack is considered the first modern [[Suicide attack|suicide bombing]].
*[[1989]] &ndash; [[Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights]] relating the [[abolition of capital punishment]] is adopted.
*[[1993]] &ndash; [[The Troubles]]: The [[Downing Street Declaration]] is issued by British [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[John Major]] and Irish [[Taoiseach]] [[Albert Reynolds]].
*[[1997]] &ndash; [[Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183]] crashes in the desert near [[Emirate of Sharjah|Sharjah]], [[United Arab Emirates]], killing 85.
*[[2000]] &ndash; The third reactor at the [[Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant]] is shut down.
*[[2001]] &ndash; The [[Leaning Tower of Pisa]] reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it, without fixing its famous lean.
*[[2005]] &ndash; Introduction of the [[Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor]] into [[United States Air Force|USAF]] active service.
*[[2010]] &ndash; A boat carrying 90 [[Refugee#Asylum seekers|asylum seeker]]s [[2010 Christmas Island boat disaster|crashes into rocks]] off the coast of [[Christmas Island]], Australia, killing 48 people.
*[[2013]] &ndash; The [[South Sudanese Civil War]] begins when opposition leaders Dr. [[Riek Machar]], [[Pagan Amum]] and [[Rebecca Nyandeng]] vote to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council at Nyakuron.
*[[2014]] &ndash; Gunman [[Man Haron Monis]] takes [[2014 Sydney hostage crisis|18 hostages]] inside a café in [[Martin Place, Sydney|Martin Place]] for 16 hours in Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed when police raid the café the following morning.
*[[2017]] &ndash; A 6.5{{M|w}}[[2017 Java earthquake|earthquake]] strikes the Indonesian island of [[Java]] in the city of [[Tasikmalaya]], resulting in four deaths.