December 15

1754
Paul Henkell, a missionary of the eighteenth-century Lutheran Church, was born near Salisbury, North Carolina.

1795
The US Senate administered a stinging blow to one of the nation's most distinguished "founding fathers." By a vote of 10 to 14, it rejected President George Washington's nomination of South Carolina's John Rutledge to be Chief Justice of the United States.

1880
Oswald W. Kreinheder was born in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Concordia Seminary in Saint Louis and served as pastor at Concordia Lutheran Church in Conover, North Carolina. He became president of Concordia College in 1918 until December 19.

1956
CBS affilliate, WRAL TV Channel 5, began broadcasting in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina.


1957