December 15 in history: • 1025 – Constantine VIII (depicted) became the sole Byzantine emperor, 63 years after being crowned co-emperor. → go there • 1890 – Sitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota leader, was killed on Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota by U.S. Indian agency police. → go there • 1939 – The American historical epic film Gone With the Wind, adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the same name, premiered in Atlanta, Georgia. → go there • 1945 – The US-led occupying forces ordered the government of Japan to cease state support for Shinto. → go there • 2019 – Citizenship Amendment Act protests: 10 to 15 local women blockaded a major road in Delhi, India, to protest the exclusion of Muslims from the amended Citizenship Act. → go there Died 1810: Sarah Trimmer Wiki link Died 1950: Vallabhbhai Patel Wiki link Died 2010: Bob Feller Wiki link Pictured: Constantine VIII.