December 14

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

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 Dürrenmatt, writer
• 1993 - Myrna Loy, actress
• 1998 - Norman Fell[?], actor

Holidays and observances