On This Day:
Monday December 15, 2014 This is the 349th day of the year, with 16 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: dreaming People dream four or five times a night, each dream lasting longer than the one before. Most of us spend as much as two hours a night dreaming. Your muscles go limp during dreams, perhaps so that you don't hurt yourself moving around. Babies are great dreamers and even dream before they are born. Dreams are a sort of wish-fulfillment, closely related to deep emotional reactions. A person's dreams reveal repressed feelings and thoughts. Many say that dreams are an extension of daytime consciousness -- a process in which the ideas, feelings, and mental impressions absorbed during waking hours are sorted out.
Holidays Feast day of St. Nino, St. Valerian, St. Mary di Rosa, and St. Paul of Latros.
Curacao: Kingdom Day and Antillean Flag Day.
Events 1654 - A meteorological office established in Tuscany, Italy, began recording daily temperature readings.
1791 - The Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America, went into effect following ratification by Virginia.
1890 - Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull and 11 other tribe members were killed in Grand River, South Dakota, in a fight with Indian police.
1916 - The French defeated the Germans in the World War I Battle of Verdun.
1938 - Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Jefferson Memorial took place in Washington, D.C.
1939 - Nylon was first produced commercially, in Delaware.
1939 - The motion picture "Gone With the Wind" premiered in Atlanta.
1948 - Former State Department official Alger Hiss was indicted by a federal grand jury in New York on charges of perjury.
1973 - Jean Paul Getty III, the grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, was found alive in southern Italy five months after his kidnapping. Getty, who was named the richest man in the world in 1957, initially refused to pay his grandson's 3.2-million dollar ransom, and only cooperated after the boy's severed right ear was sent to a newspaper in Rome. The elder Getty was born on this day in 1892.
1986 - Carnegie Hall reopened after its $50 million renovation.
1996 - Boeing and McDonnell Douglas aircraft manufacturers announced that they would merge, creating the world's largest aerospace company.
Births 37 - Nero, Roman emperor.
1832 - Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and builder of the Eiffel Tower.
1861 - Charles Duryea, American automobile inventor.
1883 - William A. Hinton, American developer of the "Hinton Test" for diagnosing syphilis.
1892 - J. Paul Getty, American industrialist and founder of the Getty Oil Company.
Deaths 1890 - Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake), Indian chief of the Sioux tribes.
1943 - Fats Waller (Thomas Wright Waller), American jazz pianist and composer.
1966 - Walt Disney, American motion-picture and television producer and founder of the Disney Company.
2005 - William Proxmire, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin.
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