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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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
1989 - Chile holds its first free election in 16 years.
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 (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)
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
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
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 (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
1985 - Roger Maris, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1934)
1989 - Andrei D. Sakharov, physicist, Soviet dissident (b. 1929)
1990 - Friedrich DÃÂÃÂ¼rrenmatt, writer (b. 1921)
1993 - Myrna Loy, actress (b. 1905)
1998 - Norman Fell, actor
1998 - Annette Strauss, philanthropist, former mayor of Dallas, Texas (b. 1924)

Holidays and observances

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

See Also:

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

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