“What Do Sitting Bull, Gone With The Wind and the Leaning Tower of Pisa have in common?”
All three share an important newsworthy anniversary on December 15th.
Curious to know more about Sitting Bull, Gone With The Wind, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and Chernobyl? Read on to find out about these and other interesting tales that happened on Dec. 15th.
1791 – The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
1890 – Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.
1939 – Gone with the Wind premieres at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
1961 – Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.
1973 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, Italy, mopre than five months after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10.
2000 – The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down. This is one of the biggest nuclear reactor disasters in history.
2001 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean.
While these interesting facts about Sitting Bull, Gone With The Wind, Chernobyl, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa on December 15th have nothing to do with my real estate business selling Silicon Valley homes to families in San Jose, Cupertino and Saratoga in Santa Clara County, Calif., they add fun and entertainment to life.
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