Information about 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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