What happened on 15 December?

8 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 crowns himself 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. The
8. 1937 Battle of Teruel The Republic takes a provincial capital in a blizzard to forestall Franco's next offensive — and loses it back ten weeks later, along with 60,000 men and much of its best equipment