What happened on 15 December?

9 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1791 US Bill of Rights ratified First ten amendments to the Constitution guarantee individual rights; bedrock of American constitutional law.
2. 1925 Reza Shah founds the Pahlavi dynasty The Cossack officer is made shah and drives a forced modernisation of Iran on Ataturk's model.
3. 1939 Gone with the Wind Epic Civil War melodrama; for decades the highest-grossing film ever.
4. 1993 Schindler's List Spielberg's film about Oskar Schindler saving Jews from the Holocaust.
5. 37 Born: Nero Fifth Roman Emperor (54-68 AD); last of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Notorious in tradition for his persecution of Christians after the Great Fire of Rome (64); died by suicide as t
6. 1852 Born: Henri Becquerel French physicist; discoverer of radioactivity.
7. 1965 Gemini 6 and 7 rendezvous in orbit Two Gemini capsules fly in formation a foot apart, 160 miles up — proving that spacecraft can find and hold station on each other, the manoeuvre the whole Moon plan depends on. Gem
8. 1937 Battle of Teruel The Republic takes a provincial capital in a blizzard to forestall Franco's next offensive — and loses it back six weeks later, along with 60,000 men and much of its best equipment
9. 1890 Killing of Sitting Bull Fearing he will join the Ghost Dance, agents send Lakota police to arrest Sitting Bull at Standing Rock; in the struggle at his cabin door he is shot dead, two weeks before Wounded