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 until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1009 – Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045)
- 1503 – Nostradamus, French astrologer and mathematician (d. 1566)
- 1546 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist (d. 1601)
- 1640 – Aphra Behn, English playwright and novelist (d. 1689)
- 1720 – Justus Moeser, German statesman (d. 1794)
- 1784 – Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily (d. 1806)
- 1787 – Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este (d. 1816)
- 1866 – Roger Fry, English artist and art critic (d. 1934)
- 1870 – Karl Renner, President of Austria (d. 1950)
- 1881 – Katherine MacDonald, American actress and movie producer (d. 1956)
- 1895 – Paul Eluard, French poet (d. 1952)
- 1895 – King George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952)
- 1897 – Jimmy Doolittle, American general (d. 1993)
- 1897 – Kurt Schuschnigg, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1977)
- 1901 – King Paul of Greece (d. 1964)
- 1902 – Herbert Feigl, Austrian philosopher (d. 1988)
- 1909 – Edward Tatum, American geneticist (d. 1975)
- 1911 – Spike Jones, American comedian and musician (d. 1965)
- 1914 – Karl Carstens, President of Germany (d. 1992)
- 1914 – Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (d. 2003)
- 1920 – Clark Terry, American jazz musician and composer
- 1922 – Nikolay Basov, Soviet-Russian physicist (d. 2001)
- 1924 – Raj Kapoor, Indian actor (d. 1988)
- 1932 – Charlie Rich, American singer (d. 1995)
- 1935 – Lewis Arquette, American actor, writer and producer (d. 2001)
- 1938 – Leonardo Boff, Brazilian theologian
- 1946 – Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician (d. 1980)
- 1946 – Stan Smith, American tennis player
- 1947 – Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil
- 1949 – Cliff Williams, British musician (AC/DC)
- 1958 – Mike Scott, Scottish musician and singer-songwriter (The Waterboys)
- 1958 – Spider Stacy, British musician (The Pogues)
- 1960 – Chris Waddle, English footballer
- 1966 – Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Prime Minister of Denmark
- 1969 – Natascha McElhone, English actress
- 1972 – Miranda Hart, English comedienne
- 1975 – Andres Scotti, Uruguayan footballer
- 1976 – Petter Hansson, Swedish footballer
- 1977 – Jamie Peacock, English Rugby League player
- 1978 – Patty Schnyder, Swiss tennis player
- 1979 – Michael Owen, English footballer
- 1979 – Jean-Alain Boumsong, French footballer
- 1980 – Didier Zokora, Ivorian footballer
- 1981 – Liam Lawrence, Irish footballer
- 1982 – Steve Sidwell, English footballer
- 1985 – Jakub Blaszczykowski, Polish footballer
- 1985 – Chris Czekaj, Welsh rugby player
- 1988 – Vanessa Hudgens, American singer and actress
Deaths [change]
- 1476 – Vlad III the Impaler, ruler of Transylvania (b. 1430)
- 1542 – James V, King of Scotland (b. 1512)
- 1591 – Saint John of the Cross, Spanish friar and poet (b. 1542)
- 1651 – Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582)
- 1788 – Charles III, King of Spain
- 1799 – George Washington, first President of the United States (b. 1732)
- 1806 – John Breckinridge, American politician (b. 1760)
- 1861 – Albert, Prince Consort (b. 1819)
- 1873 – Louis Agassiz, Swiss geologist (b. 1807)
- 1878 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (b. 1843)
- 1918 – Sidonio Pais, President of Portugal (b. 1872)
- 1943 – John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon and breakfast food manufacturer (b. 1852)
- 1947 – Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
- 1947 – Edward Higgins, General, contributor to The Salvation Army (b. 1864)
- 1956 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi, President of Finland (b. 1873)
- 1963 – Dinah Washington, American singer (b. 1924)
- 1978 – Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat (b. 1886)
- 1984 – Vicente Aleixandro, Spanish writer (b. 1898)
- 1985 – Roger Maris, American baseball player (b. 1934)
- 1989 – Andrei Sakharov, Soviet-Russian scientist and activist (b. 1921)
- 1990 – Friedrich Duerrenmatt, Swiss writer (b. 1921)
- 1993 – Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
- 1994 – Orval Faubus, American politician (b. 1910)
- 1997 – Kurt Winter, Canadian musician (b. 1946)
- 2001 – W. G. Sebald, German writer (b. 1944)
- 2006 – Ahmet Ertegun, Turkish-American music executive (b. 1923)
- 2011 – Boris Chertok, Soviet-Russian rocket scientist and engineer (b. 1912)
Events [change]
- 1287 – The St. Lucia's flood in the Netherlands kills around 50,000 people.
- 1542 – Mary, Queen of Scots inherits the throne of Scotland at the age of just 6 days, following the death of her father, King James V of Scotland.
- 1782 – The Montgolfier brothers' first balloon makes its first test flight.
- 1819 – Alabama becomes the 22nd State of the United States.
- 1861 – Albert, Prince Consort, husband of Queen Victoria, dies aged 42. Following this, Queen Victoria withdraws from public life, in mourning for Prince Albert.
- 1896 – The Glasgow Underground Railway opens.
- 1911 – Roald Amundsen of Norway becomes the first person to reach the South Pole.
- 1918 – President of Portugal Sidonio Pais is assassinated.
- 1939 – Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.
- 1941 – World War II: Japan signs a treaty of alliance with Thailand.
- 1946 – The United Nations General Assembly votes to base its permanent headquarters in New York City.
- 1955 – The UN is joined by Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Spain and Sri Lanka.
- 1962 – NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
- 1972 – Eugene Cernan of Apollo 17 becomes the last person to-date to have walked on the Moon.
- 1981 – Arab-Israeli conflict: Israel extends its area of law into the Golan Heights.
- 1994 – Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China.
- 1995 – Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris.
- 1999 – Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the UN.
- 1999 – Torrential rains cause flash flooding in Vargas, Venezuela.
- 2004 – In France, the Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, is opened to traffic.
- 2008 – Muntadhar al-Zaidi almost strikes US President George W. Bush with two shoes, as a form of protest, at a news conference in Baghdad. This was Bush's last visit to Iraq as President.
- 2012 - Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: 20-year-old Adam Lanza shoots and kills his mother at his home in Newtown, Connecticut, before shooting and killing 20 children and 5 adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. He then turns the gun on himself.
Observances [change]
- Alabama Day
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