On September 11, 2001, a series of catastrophic events unfolded that altered the skyline of New York City and the world forever.

On December 15, 2000, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, site of the catastrophic accident in 1986, was permanently shut down after decades of operation.

Schindler’s List, starring Liam Neeson in the true story of a German businessman who saves the lives of more than a thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust, opens in theaters.

Legendary singer James Brown, also known as the “Godfather of Soul” and the “Hardest Working Man in Show Business,” becomes inmate number 155413 at the State Park Correctional Institute in South Carolina.

On December 15, 1974, Oakland’s Jim “Catfish” Hunter is ruled a free agent by arbitrator Peter Seitz—the first free agent in modern baseball history—after A’s owner Charles O.

Jean Paul Getty III, the grandson of American billionaire J.

On December 15, 1973, Sandy Hawley becomes the first jockey to win 500 races in a single year.

General Douglas MacArthur, in his capacity as Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in the Pacific, brings an end to Shintoism as Japan’s established religion.

After departing from an airfield outside London on December 15, 1944, a single-engine aircraft carrying trombonist and bandleader Glenn Miller goes missing over the English Channel.

On December 15, 1944, the world of music and the military was shaken by the mysterious disappearance of Glenn Miller, a prominent bandleader and major in the U.