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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_15" title="December 15">December 15</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/687" title="687">687</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Sergius_I" title="Pope Sergius I">Sergius</a></b> was elected pope, ending the last disputed period of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sede_vacante" title="Sede vacante">sede vacante</a></i> during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Papacy" title="Byzantine Papacy">Byzantine Papacy</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1025" title="1025">1025</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_VIII" title="Constantine VIII">Constantine VIII</a></b> became the sole <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> emperor, 63 years after being crowned co-emperor.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1467" title="1467">1467</a> – Troops under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_the_Great" title="Stephen the Great">Stephen III</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldavia" title="Moldavia">Moldavia</a> defeated the forces of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Corvinus" title="Matthias Corvinus">Matthias Corvinus</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary" title="Kingdom of Hungary">Hungary</a> at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baia" title="Battle of Baia">Battle of Baia</a></b> in present-day Romania.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890" title="1890">1890</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting_Bull" title="Sitting Bull">Sitting Bull</a></b>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunkpapa" title="Hunkpapa">Hunkpapa</a> Lakota leader, was killed on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_Rock_Indian_Reservation" title="Standing Rock Indian Reservation">Standing Rock Indian Reservation</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota" title="South Dakota">South Dakota</a> by U.S. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_agency_police" title="Indian agency police">Indian agency police</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981" title="1981">1981</a> – The Iraqi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shia_Islam" title="Shia Islam">Shia</a> Islamist group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Dawa_Party" title="Islamic Dawa Party">al-Dawa</a> carried out <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Iraqi_embassy_bombing_in_Beirut" title="1981 Iraqi embassy bombing in Beirut">one of the first modern suicide bombings</a></b>, targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, resulting in 61 deaths and at least 100 injuries.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Teniers_the_Younger" title="David Teniers the Younger">David Teniers the Younger</a></b> (<abbr title="baptised">bapt.</abbr> 1610); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Jepperson_Madsen" title="Florence Jepperson Madsen">Florence Jepperson Madsen</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1886); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallabhbhai_Patel" title="Vallabhbhai Patel">Vallabhbhai Patel</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1950)</p>
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