December 14

December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar. There are 16 days remaining.

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

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 (+ 1975)
   * 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, actgress (+ 1991)
   * 1938 - Leonardo Boff, theologian
   * 1939 - Ernie Davis, American football star (+ 1963)
   * 1946 - Patty Duke, actress
   * 1946 - Michael Ovitz, film producer
   * 1948 - Marianne Fritz, writer
   * 1962 - Ginger Lynn Allen, pornographic film actress
   * 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 of the United Kingdom
   * 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 DŸrrenmatt, writer
   * 1993 - Myrna Loy, actress
   * 1998 - Norman Fell, actor

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