December 14
December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are seventeen days remaining.
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Events
- 867 - Adrian II becomes Pope.
- 872 - John VIII becomes Pope.
- 1287 - St. Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.
- 1542 - Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland.
- 1769 - Dartmouth College is chartered by King George III of England.
- 1819 - Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.
- 1896 - The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
- 1900 - Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
- 1902 - The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii.
- 1911 - Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
- 1918 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.
- 1939 - Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations.
- 1946 - The UN General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York City.
- 1947 - The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded in Daytona Beach, Florida.
- 1958 - The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first-ever to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic.
- 1959 - The Motown record label is founded in Detroit, Michigan by Berry Gordy.
- 1962 - NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
- 1962 - The Mona Lisa is assessed at US$100 million, the highest insurance valuance for a painting in history.
- 1964 - American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States - The United States Supreme Court rules that the U.S. Congress can use its Commerce Clause power to fight discrimination.
- 1977 - Releasing of Saturday Night Fever film.
- 1981 - Arab-Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset passes The Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the area of the Golan Heights.
- 1989 - Patricio Aylwin is elected President of Chile.
- 1995 - Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by President Slobodan Milošević, President Franjo Tuđman, President Alija Izetbegović, President Jacques Chirac, President Bill Clinton, Prime Minister John Major, Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.
- 1999 - Charles M. Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts, announces his retirement.
- 2000 - The "Texas 7" rob a Radio Shack store in Pearland, Texas, stealing police radio scanners.
- 2003 - The La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy, rebuilt following arson, is reopened.
- 2003 - President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf narrowly escaped an assassination attempt.
- 2004 - The Millau viaduct, the highest bridge in the world, spanning the valley of the River Tarn near Millau, France and designed by British architect Lord Foster in collaboration with French bridge engineer Michel Virlogeux, is officially opened.
- 2005 - The Road and Transport Authority of New South Wales, Australia starts to issue NSW Photo Card.
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Births
- 1009 - Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045)
- 1503 - Nostradamus, French astrologer and mathematician (d. 1566)
- 1546 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (d. 1601)
- 1625 - Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695)
- 1631 - Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679)
- 1640 - (baptism date) - Aphra Behn, playwright and novelist (d. 1689)
- 1678 - Daniel Neal, English historian (d. 1743)
- 1720 - Justus Möser, German statesman (d. 1794)
- 1775 - Philander Chase, American founder of Kenyon College (d. 1852)
- 1775 - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (d. 1860)
- 1824 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)
- 1866 - Roger Fry, British artist and art critic (d. 1934)
- 1870 - Karl Renner, President of Austria (d. 1950)
- 1884 - Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright (d. 1950)
- 1895 - Paul Eluard, French poet (d. 1952)
- 1895 - King George VI of the United Kingdom (Albert Frederick Arthur George Windsor) (d. 1952)
- 1896 - Jimmy Doolittle, American General (d. 1993)
- 1897 - Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (d. 1995)
- 1902 - Frances Bavier, American actress (d. 1989)
- 1908 - Morey Amsterdam, American comedian and actor (d. 1996)
- 1909 - Edward Tatum, American geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
- 1911 - Spike Jones, American comedian and musician (d. 1965)
- 1913 - Dan Dailey, American actor (d. 1978)
- 1914 - Karl Carstens, President of Germany (d. 1992)
- 1914 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (d. 2003)
- 1918 - James T. Aubrey, American television executive (d. 1994)
- 1918 - B.K.S. Iyengar, Indian yoga advocate
- 1919 - Shirley Jackson, American writer (d. 1965)
- 1920 - Clark Terry, American trumpeter
- 1922 - Nikolay Basov, Soviet-born Russian physicist and Noble Prize laureate (d. 2001)
- 1923 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer
- 1924 - Raj Kapoor, Indian actor (d. 1988)
- 1932 - Charlie Rich, American musician (d. 1995)
- 1935 - Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1938 - Leonardo Boff, Brazilian theologian
- 1946 - Jane Birkin, British-born actress
- 1946 - Patty Duke, American actress
- 1946 - Michael Ovitz, American film producer
- 1946 - Stan Smith, American tennis player
- 1947 - Christopher Parkening, American guitarist
- 1949 - Bill Buckner, American baseball player
- 1949 - Cliff Williams, British-born bassist (AC/DC)
- 1949 - Dee Wallace-Stone, American actress
- 1951 - Jan Timman, Dutch chess grandmaster
- 1953 - René Eespere, Soviet-born Estonian composer
- 1954 - Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (d. 1993)
- 1954 - James Horan, American actor
- 1956 - Hanni Wenzel, Liechtenstein skier
- 1958 - Mike Scott, British singer and songwriter (The Waterboys)
- 1958 - Spider Stacy (Peter Richard Stacy), British-born tin whistle player, (The Pogues)
- 1962 - Ginger Lynn (Ginger Lynn Allen), American adult film actress
- 1963 - Cynthia Gibb, American actress
- 1965 - Craig Biggio, American baseball player
- 1966 - Bill Ranford, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967 - Ewa Białołęcka, Polish writer
- 1969 - Scott Hatteberg, American baseball player
- 1970 - Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer
- 1973 - Tomasz Radzinski, Polish-born Canadian international footballer
- 1974 - Billy Koch, American baseball player
- 1977 - KaDee Strickland, American actress
- 1979 - Michael Owen, English international footballer
- 1979 - Jean-Alain Boumsong, French footballer
- 1982 - Anthony Way, British singer and actor
- 1984 - Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer
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Deaths
- 1460 - Guarino da Verona, Italian humanist and translator (b. 1370)
- 1510 - Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)
- 1542 - King James V of Scotland (b. 1512)
- 1591 - Saint John of the Cross, Spanish friar and poet (b. 1542)
- 1624 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536)
- 1651 - Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582)
- 1713 - Thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641)
- 1715 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636)
- 1735 - Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674)
- 1741 - Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661)
- 1788 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (b. 1714)
- 1788 - King Charles III of Spain (b. 1716)
- 1799 - George Washington, first President of the United States (b. 1732)
- 1861 - Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, consort of Queen Victoria (b. 1819)
- 1865 - Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (b. 1794)
- 1873 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born American zoologist and geologist (b. 1807)
- 1947 - Edward Higgins, British Salvation Army General (b. 1864)
- 1963 - Dinah Washington, American singer (b. 1924)
- 1964 - William Bendix, American actor (b. 1906)
- 1984 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
- 1985 - Roger Maris, American baseball player (b. 1934)
- 1989 - Andrei D. Sakharov, Russian physicist, activist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
- 1990 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (b. 1921)
- 1993 - Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
- 1998 - Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)
- 1998 - Annette Strauss, philanthropist and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (b. 1924)
- 1998 - Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr., civil rights activist and author (b. 1928)
- 2003 - Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925)
- 2003 - Blas Ople, foreign minister of the Philippines (b. 1927)
- 2004 - Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (b. 1934)
- 2004 - Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino actor and presidential candidate (b. 1939)
- 2005 - Dr. Rodney William Whitaker, of pen name Trevanian, American author (b. 1931)
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Holidays and observances
- R.C. Saints - Memorial of Saint John of the Cross
- USA - admission of Alabama as 22nd state (1819)
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