User:Venustas 12/December 15 2010 Selected Anniversaries/doc December 15
- 1256 – The Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut (pictured) in present-day Iran was captured and destroyed by Hulagu Khan and the Mongols.
- 1467 – Troops under Stephen III of Moldavia defeated the forces of Matthias Corvinus of Hungary in present-day Baia, Romania.
- 1791 – The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified.
- 1906 – The Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway, a 14.17-kilometre (8.80 mi) long deep-level underground tube railway connecting Hammersmith and Finsbury Park in London, opened.
- 1973 – The American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its official list of mental disorders, the DSM-II.
- 1995 – The European Court of Justice handed down the Bosman ruling, allowing footballers in the European Union to freely transfer from one UEFA Federation to another at the end of their contracts.
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