Today is Monday, December 14, the 348th day of 2015. There are 17 days left in the year.
1819 — Alabama admitted to the Union as the 22nd state
1849 — First chamber music group in U.S. gives their first concert (Boston)
1882 — Henry Morton Stanley returns to Brussels from Congo
1889 — American Academy of Political & Social Science organized in Philadelphia
1901 — First table tennis tournament is held at the London Royal Aquarium
1913 — Greece formally takes possession of Crete
1918 — Puccini’s opera “Il Trittico” premieres in New York
1924 — Chiang Kai-shek occupies Hankou
1926 — Danish Madsen government forms
1927 — Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain