December 14

December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 17 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Events

• 867 - Adrian II becomes Pope
• 872 - John VIII becomes Pope
• 1287 - Zuider Zee sea wall collapses, killing over 50,000 people
• 1790 - Alexander Hamilton proposes creation of a Bank of the United States
• 1819 - Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state
• 1900 - Max Planck publishes his study of the quantum theory
• 1902 - First telegraph cable laid across the Pacific Ocean
• 1911 - First expedition reaches the South Pole, led by Roald Amundsen
• 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
• 1964 - Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States 379 US 241 1964 decided by U.S. Supreme Court
• 1981 - Israel annexes the Golan Heights
• 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.

Births

• 1503 - Nostradamus, astrologer and mathematician († 1566)
• 1546 - Tycho Brahe, astronomer († 1601)
• 1640 (baptism date) - Aphra Behn, playwright, novelist († 1689)
• 1824 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter († 1898)
• 1866 - Roger Fry, artist, art critic
• 1870 - Karl Renner, politician and President of Austria 1945-1950 († 1950)
• 1896 - King George VI of the United Kingdom (+ 1952)
• 1896 - Jimmy Doolittle American World War II General († 1993)
• 1897 - Margaret Chase Smith, American politician
• 1902 - Frances Bavier, actress († 1989)
• 1908 - Morey Amsterdam, comedian, actor († 1996)
• 1909 - Edward Tatum, geneticist († 1975)
• 1911 - Spike Jones, comedian, musician († 1965)
• 1913 - Dan Dailey, actor (+ 1978)
• 1914 - Karl Carstens, politician and President of Germany 1979-1984 († 1992)
• 1919 - Shirley Jackson, writer († 1965)
• 1923 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer
• 1932 - Charlie Rich, country music performer († 1995)
• 1935 - Lee Remick, actress († 1991)
• 1938 - Leonardo Boff, theologian
• 1939 - Ernie Davis, American football star († 1963)
• 1946 - Patty Duke, actress
• 1946 - Jane Birkin, actress
• 1946 - Michael Ovitz, film producer
• 1948 - Marianne Fritz, writer
• 1962 - Ginger Lynn Allen, pornographic film actress
• 1965 - Craig Biggio, baseball player
• 1979 - Michael Owen, football star

Deaths

• 1542 - James V of Scotland
• 1788 - Charles III of Spain
• 1799 - George Washington, first President of the United States
• 1861 - Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria
• 1873 - Louis Agassiz, zoologist, geologist
• 1963 - Dinah Washington, singer
• 1964 - William Bendix, actor
• 1985 - Roger Maris, Baseball Hall of Famer
• 1989 - Andrei D. Sakharov, physicist, Soviet dissident
• 1990 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer
• 1993 - Myrna Loy, actress
• 1998 - Norman Fell, actor

Holidays and observances

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See Also:

December 13 - December 15 - November 14 - January 14 -- listing of all days

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