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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.
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 influencial 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
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
Feast of Saint John of the Cross (in the Roman Catholic Church and Church of England)
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