December 14
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December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 17 days remaining.
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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
- 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.
- 1932 - 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
- 1958 - 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first ever to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility
- 1959 - Motown record label is 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.
- 1996 - A massive freightliner hits the Riverwalk mall and hotel complex in New Orleans, Louisiana, injuring 116.
- 1999 - Charles M. Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts, announced his retirement.
- 2000 - The Texas 7 rob 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.
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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)
- 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, English 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 (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 (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 - B.K.S. Iyengar, Indian yoga advocate
- 1918 - James T. Aubrey, American television executive (d. 1994)
- 1919 - Shirley Jackson, American writer (d. 1965)
- 1922 - Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Noble Prize laureate (d. 2001)
- 1923 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer
- 1932 - Charlie Rich, American musician (d. 1995)
- 1935 - Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1938 - Leonardo Boff, Brazilian theologian
- 1946 - Patty Duke, American actress
- 1946 - Jane Birkin, English-born actress
- 1946 - Michael Ovitz, film producer
- 1946 - Stan Smith, American tennis player
- 1947 - Christopher Parkening, American guitarist
- 1949 - Bill Buckner, baseball player
- 1954 - Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (d. 1993)
- 1954 - James Horan, American actor
- 1962 - Ginger Lynn, American actress
- 1963 - Sergey Bubka, Ukrainian athlete
- 1963 - Cynthia Gibb, American actress
- 1965 - Craig Biggio, baseball player
- 1966 - Bill Ranford, hockey player
- 1967 - Ewa Białołęcka, Polish writer
- 1973 = Tomasz Radzinski, Canadian footballer
- 1974 - Billy Koch, baseball player
- 1977 - KaDee Strickland, American actress
- 1979 - Michael Owen, English footballer
- 1982 - Anthony Way, British singer and actor
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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, consort of Queen Victoria (b. 1819)
- 1873 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born zoologist and geologist (b. 1807)
- 1947 - Edward Higgins, English Salvation Army general (b. 1864
- 1963 - Dinah Washington, American singer (b. 1924)
- 1964 - William Bendix, American actor (b. 1906)
- 1984 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
- 1985 - Roger Maris, baseball player (b. 1934)
- 1989 - Andrei D. Sakharov, Russian physicist and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (declined) (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)
- 2003 - Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925)
- 2003 - Blas Ople, foreign minister of the Philippines (b. 1927)
- 2004 - Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino actor (b. 1939)
- 2004 - Rod Kanehl, baseball player (b. 1934)
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Holidays and observances
- Feast of Saint John of the Cross (in the Roman Catholic Church and Church of England)
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External links
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