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1862   Nathan B. Forrest crosses the Tennessee River at Clifton with 2,500 men to raid the communications around Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1862   In New Orleans, Louisiana, Union Major General Benjamin F. Butler turns his command over to Nathaniel Banks. The citizens of New Orleans hold farewell parties for Butler, "The Beast," but only after he leaves.
1864   The battle at Nashville begins.
1890   As U.S. Army soldiers attempt to arrest Sitting Bull at his cabin in Standing Rock, South Dakota, shooting breaks out and Lt. Bullhead shoots the great Sioux leader.
1903   The British parliament places a 15-year ban on whale hunting in Norway.
1920   China wins a place on the League Council; Austria is admitted.
1924   The Soviet Union warns the United States against repeated entry of ships into Soviet territorial waters.
1938   Washington sends its fourth note to Berlin demanding amnesty for Jews.
1944   The battle for Luzon begins.
1946   Vietnam leader Ho Chi Minh sends a note to the new French Premier, Leon Blum, asking for peace talks.
1961   Adolf Eichmann, the former German Gestapo official accused of a major role in the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews, is sentenced by a Jerusalem court to be hanged.
1965   The United States drops 12 tons of bombs on an industrial center near Haiphong Harbor, North Vietnam.
1967   President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the meat bill in the presence of Upton Sinclair, the author of the controversial book The Jungle.
1972   The Commonwealth of Australia orders equal pay for women.
Born on December 15
37   Nero Claudius Caesar, emperor of Rome, blamed for the great fire of Rome.
1832   Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, designer of the famous tower in Paris.
1883   William A. Hinton, developer of the "Hinton Test" for diagnosing syphilis.
1892   J. Paul Getty, American oilman and art collector.

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