| December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar. There are 17 days remaining.
Events
- 867 - Adrian II becomes
Pope
- 872 - John VIII becomes
Pope
- 1287 - Zuider Zee sea wall collapses,
killing over 50,000 people
- 1542 - Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland.
- 1790 - Alexander
Hamilton proposes creation of a Bank
of the United States
- 1819 - Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state
- 1825 - Several Imperial
Russia army officers lead circa 3000 soldiers on the Senate Square in
the failed Decembrist uprising
- 1896 - Glasgow Underground
Railway, third in the world, opens (an accident closes it the same day and it only reopens in 1897),
- 1900 - Max Planck publishes his study
of quantum theory (The birth of Quantum Theory)
- 1902 - First telegraph cable laid
across the Pacific Ocean
- 1911 - First expedition reaches the South
Pole, led by Roald Amundsen
- 1918 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by
the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounced the Finnish throne.
- 1927 - Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom
- 1939 - USSR expelled from the
League of Nations
- 1946 - UN General
Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York City
- 1947 - NASCAR founded
- 1959 - Motown, a famed record label whose roster included The Supremes, The Jackson Five, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Lionel Richie, Stevie
Wonder, Boyz II Men and many other musicians, was founded in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1962 - Mariner 2 became the first
spacecraft to fly by Venus.
- 1962 - The Mona Lisa was assessed at US$100 million, the highest insurance valuance for a painting
in history.
- 1964 - Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States 379 US 241 1964 decided by U.S. Supreme
Court
- 1979 - Punk rock band The Clash release the influential double album London Calling.
- 1981 - Israel annexes the Golan Heights
- 1989 - Chile holds its first free election in
16 years. Patricio Aylwin was elected president.
- 1991 - A rock slide takes off 10 metres of Mount Cook's elevation in New Zealand.
- 1995 - The Dayton
Agreement was signed in Paris to end the Yugoslav wars.
- 1999 - Charles M.
Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts, announced his retirement.
- 2000 - The Texas 7 robs a Radio Shack in Pearland,
Texas. They stole police scanners that would be used in their following infamous heist.
- 2003 - The news of the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's capture is finally announced.
- 2003 - Celebration of the reopening of the Fenice Theater in
Venice, Italy.
- 2004 - The Millau viaduct,
the highest bridge in the world, is officially opened.
Births
- 1503 - Nostradamus, astrologer and
mathematician (d. 1566)
- 1546 - Tycho Brahe, astronomer (d.
1601)
- 1640 (baptism date) - Aphra Behn,
playwright, novelist (d. 1689)
- 1824 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter (d. 1898)
- 1866 - Roger Fry, artist, art critic
(d. 1934)
- 1870 - Karl Renner, politician and
President of Austria 1945-1950 (d. 1950)
- 1884 - Jane Cowl, Broadway actress & playwright, played Juliet over 2000 times, (d. 1950)
- 1895 - Paul Eluard, French poet (d.
1952)
- 1896 - King George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952)
- 1896 - Jimmy Doolittle, American World War II General (d. 1993)
- 1897 - Margaret Chase
Smith, American politician (d. 1995)
- 1902 - Frances Bavier,
actress (d. 1989)
- 1908 - Morey Amsterdam,
comedian, actor (d. 1996)
- 1909 - Edward Tatum, geneticist
(d. 1975)
- 1911 - Spike Jones, comedian,
musician (d. 1965)
- 1913 - Dan Dailey, actor (d. 1978)
- 1914 - Karl Carstens,
politician and President of Germany 1979-1984 (d.
1992)
- 1918 - B.K.S. Iyengar, Yoga
exponent
- 1918 - James T. Aubrey, American television executive (d.
1994)
- 1919 - Shirley Jackson,
writer (d. 1965)
- 1923 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer
- 1932 - Charlie Rich, country music performer (d. 1995)
- 1935 - Lee Remick, actress (d.
1991)
- 1938 - Leonardo Boff, theologian
- 1939 - Ernie Davis, American football star (d.
1963)
- 1946 - Patty Duke, actress
- 1946 - Jane Birkin, actress
- 1946 - Michael Ovitz, film producer
- 1946 - Stan Smith, tennis
player
- 1947 - Christopher
Parkening, American guitarist
- 1948 - Marianne Fritz, writer
- 1954 - Alan Kulwicki, NASCAR driver (d. 1993)
- 1962 - Ginger Lynn, pornographic film actress
- 1965 - Craig Biggio, baseball player
- 1974 - Billy Koch, baseball relief pitcher
- 1977 - Bogdan CLINCU, Director
- 1979 - Michael Owen, football star
Deaths
- 1542 - James V of
Scotland (b. 1512)
- 1788 - Charles III of
Spain (b. 1716)
- 1799 - George
Washington, first President of the
United States (b. 1732)
- 1861 - Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria (b. 1819)
- 1873 - Louis Agassiz,
zoologist, geologist (b. 1807)
- 1963 - Dinah Washington,
singer (b. 1924)
- 1964 - William Bendix,
actor
- 1984 - Vicente
Aleixandre, Spanish writer (b. 1898)
- 1985 - Roger Maris, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1934)
- 1989 - Andrei D.
Sakharov, physicist, Soviet dissident (b. 1921)
- 1990 - Friedrich
Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (b. 1921)
- 1993 - Myrna Loy, actress (b. 1905)
- 1998 - Norman Fell, actor
- 1998 - Annette Strauss, philanthropist, former mayor of Dallas, Texas (b. 1924)
- 2003 - Jeanne Crain, American
actress
- 2003 - Blas Ople, foreign minister of the Philippines
- 2004 - Fernando Poe,
Jr., Filipino actor
- 2004 - Rod Kanehl, Major League Baseball player (b. 1934)
Holidays and observances
External links
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