On December 15, 1894, US labor leader and socialist Eugene V. Debs was sentenced to six months imprisonment for his leadership of the Pullman railroad strike. Visit the website of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation.

On December 15, 1961, former-Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death in Jerusalem, Israel. Known as the "architect of the Holocaust," Eichmann escaped to Argentina after World War II until he was captured there by Israeli agents in 1960. Learn more about the trial of Adolf Eichmann from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.