December, 14th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Tuesday 14, 2004:
The Millau viaduct, the highest bridge in the world, is officially opened.

Sunday 14, 2003:
Celebration of the reopening of the Fenice Theater in Venice, Italy.

Thursday 14, 2000:
The Texas 7 rob a Radio Shack in Pearland, Texas. They stole police scanners that would be used in their following infamous heist.

Tuesday 14, 1999:
Charles M. Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts, announced his retirement.

Saturday 14, 1996:
A massive freightliner hits the Riverwalk mall and hotel complex in New Orleans, Louisiana, injuring 116.

Thursday 14, 1995:
The Dayton Agreement was signed in Paris to end the Yugoslav wars.

Saturday 14, 1991:
A rock slide takes off 10 metres of Mount Cook's elevation in New Zealand.

Thursday 14, 1989:
Chile holds its first free election in 16 years. Patricio Aylwin was elected president.

Monday 14, 1981:
Israel annexes the Golan Heights

Friday 14, 1979:
Punk rock band The Clash release the influential double album London Calling.

Monday 14, 1964:
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States 379 US 241 1964 decided by U.S. Supreme Court

Friday 14, 1962:
The Mona Lisa was assessed at US$100 million, the highest insurance valuance for a painting in history.

Monday 14, 1959:
Motown record label is founded in Detroit, Michigan.

Sunday 14, 1958:
3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first ever to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility

Sunday 14, 1947:
NASCAR founded

Saturday 14, 1946:
UN General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York City

Thursday 14, 1939:
USSR expelled from the League of Nations

Wednesday 14, 1932:
Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom

Saturday 14, 1918:
Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounced the Finnish throne.

Thursday 14, 1911:
First expedition reaches the South Pole, led by Roald Amundsen

Sunday 14, 1902:
First telegraph cable laid across the Pacific Ocean

Friday 14, 1900:
Max Planck publishes his study of quantum theory (The birth of Quantum Theory)

Monday 14, 1896:
Glasgow Underground Railway, third in the world, opens (an accident closes it the same day and it only reopens in 1897),

Tuesday 14, 1819:
Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state

Tuesday 14, 1790:
Alexander Hamilton proposes creation of a Bank of the United States

Monday 14, 1542:
Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland.

Sunday 14, 1287:
Zuider Zee sea wall collapses, killing over 50,000 people

Wednesday 14, 872:
John VIII becomes Pope

Wednesday 14, 867:
Adrian II becomes Pope

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/14-december/on-this-day.html


People born on December 14

1982:
Anthony Way, British singer and actor (b: December 14, 1982) (Biography of Anthony Way)

1979:
Michael Owen, English footballer (b: December 14, 1979) (Biography of Michael Owen)

1977:
KaDee Strickland, American actress (b: December 14, 1977) (Biography of KaDee Strickland)

1974:
Billy Koch, baseball player (b: December 14, 1974) (Biography of Billy Koch)

1967:
Ewa Bia?o??cka, Polish writer (b: December 14, 1967) (Biography of Ewa Bia?o??cka)

1965:
Craig Biggio, baseball player (b: December 14, 1965) (Biography of Craig Biggio)

1963:
Sergey Bubka, Ukrainian athlete (b: December 14, 1963) (Biography of Sergey Bubka)
Cynthia Gibb, American actress (b: December 14, 1963) (Biography of Cynthia Gibb)

1962:
Ginger Lynn, American actress (b: December 14, 1962) (Biography of Ginger Lynn)

1954:
Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (b: December 14, 1954 ; d: April 1, 1993) (Biography of Alan Kulwicki)
James Horan, American actor (b: December 14, 1954) (Biography of James Horan)

1949:
Bill Buckner, baseball player (b: December 14, 1949) (Biography of Bill Buckner)

1947:
Christopher Parkening, American guitarist (b: December 14, 1947) (Biography of Christopher Parkening)

1946:
Patty Duke, American actress (b: December 14, 1946) (Biography of Patty Duke)
Jane Birkin, English-born actress (b: December 14, 1946) (Biography of Jane Birkin)
Michael Ovitz, film producer (b: December 14, 1946) (Biography of Michael Ovitz)

1938:
Leonardo Boff, Brazilian theologian (b: December 14, 1938) (Biography of Leonardo Boff)

1935:
Lee Remick, American actress (b: December 14, 1935 ; d: July 2, 1991) (Biography of Lee Remick)

1932:
Charlie Rich, American musician (b: December 14, 1932) (Biography of Charlie Rich)

1923:
Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (b: December 14, 1923) (Biography of Gerard Reve)

1922:
Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Noble Prize laureate (b: December 14, 1922 ; d: July 1, 2001) (Biography of Nikolay Basov)

1919:
Shirley Jackson, American writer (b: December 14, 1919 ; d: August 8, 1965) (Biography of Shirley Jackson)

1918:
James T. Aubrey, American television executive (b: December 14, 1918 ; d: September 3, 1994) (Biography of James T. Aubrey)
B.K.S. Iyengar, Indian yoga advocate (b: December 14, 1918) (Biography of B.K.S. Iyengar)

1914:
Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (b: December 14, 1914 ; d: July 17, 2003) (Biography of Rosalyn Tureck)
Karl Carstens, President of Germany (b: December 14, 1914) (Biography of Karl Carstens)

1913:
Dan Dailey, American actor (b: December 14, 1913 ; d: October 16, 1978) (Biography of Dan Dailey)

1911:
Spike Jones, American comedian and musician (b: December 14, 1911 ; d: May 1, 1965) (Biography of Spike Jones)

1909:
Edward Tatum, American geneticist (b: December 14, 1909) (Biography of Edward Tatum)

1908:
Morey Amsterdam, American comedian and actor (b: December 14, 1908 ; d: October 28, 1996) (Biography of Morey Amsterdam)

1902:
Frances Bavier, American actress (b: December 14, 1902 ; d: December 6, 1989) (Biography of Frances Bavier)

1897:
Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (b: December 14, 1897) (Biography of Margaret Chase Smith)

1896:
Jimmy Doolittle, American general (b: December 14, 1896 ; d: September 27, 1993) (Biography of Jimmy Doolittle)

1895:
King George VI of the United Kingdom (b: December 14, 1895 ; d: February 6, 1952) (Biography of George VI of the United Kingdom)
Paul Eluard, French poet (b: December 14, 1895 ; d: November 18, 1952) (Biography of Paul Eluard)

1884:
Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright (b: December 14, 1884) (Biography of Jane Cowl)

1870:
Karl Renner, President of Austria (b: December 14, 1870) (Biography of Karl Renner)

1866:
Roger Fry, English artist and art critic (b: December 14, 1866) (Biography of Roger Fry)

1824:
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b: December 14, 1824 ; d: October 24, 1898) (Biography of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes)

1775:
Philander Chase, American founder of Kenyon College (b: December 14, 1775 ; d: September 20, 1852) (Biography of Philander Chase)
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (b: December 14, 1775 ; d: October 31, 1860) (Biography of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald)

1678:
Daniel Neal, English historian (b: December 14, 1678 ; d: April 4, 1743) (Biography of Daniel Neal)

1640:
Aphra Behn, playwright and novelist (b: December 14, 1640 ; d: April 16, 1689) (Biography of Aphra Behn)

1631:
Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (b: December 14, 1631) (Biography of Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway)

1625:
Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (b: December 14, 1625 ; d: December 8, 1695) (Biography of Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville)

1546:
Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b: December 14, 1546 ; d: October 24, 1601) (Biography of Tycho Brahe)

1503:
Nostradamus, French astrologer and mathematician (b: December 14, 1503) (Biography of Nostradamus)

1009:
Emperor Go-Suzaku, emperor of Japan (b: December 14, 1009 ; d: February 7, 1045) (Biography of Emperor Go-Suzaku)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/14-december/births.html

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They left us on December 14

2004:
Rod Kanehl, baseball player (b: April 1, 1934 ; d: December 14, 2004) (Biography of Rod Kanehl)
Fernando Poe, Jr. (d: December 14, 2004) (Biography of Fernando Poe, Jr.)

2003:
Jeanne Crain, American actress (b: May 25, 1925 ; d: December 14, 2003) (Biography of Jeanne Crain)
Blas Ople (d: December 14, 2003) (Biography of Blas Ople)

1998:
Annette Strauss, philanthropist and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (b: January 26, 1924 ; d: December 14, 1998) (Biography of Annette Strauss)
Norman Fell, American actor (b: March 24, 1924 ; d: December 14, 1998) (Biography of Norman Fell)

1993:
Myrna Loy, American actress (b: August 2, 1905 ; d: December 14, 1993) (Biography of Myrna Loy)

1990:
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (b: January 5, 1921 ; d: December 14, 1990) (Biography of Friedrich Dürrenmatt)

1989:
Andrei D. Sakharov (d: December 14, 1989) (Biography of Andrei D. Sakharov)

1985:
Roger Maris, baseball player (b: September 10, 1934 ; d: December 14, 1985) (Biography of Roger Maris)

1984:
Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer (b: April 26, 1898 ; d: December 14, 1984) (Biography of Vicente Aleixandre)

1964:
William Bendix, American actor (b: January 14, 1906 ; d: December 14, 1964) (Biography of William Bendix)

1963:
Dinah Washington, American singer (b: August 29, 1924 ; d: December 14, 1963) (Biography of Dinah Washington)

1947:
Edward Higgins, English Salvation Army General (b: November 26, 1864 ; d: December 14, 1947) (Biography of Edward Higgins)

1873:
Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born zoologist and geologist (b: May 28, 1807 ; d: December 14, 1873) (Biography of Louis Agassiz)

1861:
Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (d: December 14, 1861) (Biography of Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha)

1799:
George Washington, first President of the United States (b: February 22, 1732 ; d: December 14, 1799) (Biography of George Washington)

1788:
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (d: December 14, 1788) (Biography of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach)
Charles III of Spain (d: December 14, 1788) (Biography of Charles III of Spain)

1741:
Charles Rollin, French historian (b: January 30, 1661 ; d: December 14, 1741) (Biography of Charles Rollin)

1735:
Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b: January 24, 1674 ; d: December 14, 1735) (Biography of Thomas Tanner (bishop))

1715:
Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b: September 29, 1636 ; d: December 14, 1715) (Biography of Thomas Tenison)

1713:
Thomas Rymer (d: December 14, 1713) (Biography of Thomas Rymer)

1651:
Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b: November 27, 1582 ; d: December 14, 1651) (Biography of Pierre Dupuy)

1624:
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham (d: December 14, 1624) (Biography of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham)

1591:
Saint John of the Cross (d: December 14, 1591) (Biography of Saint John of the Cross)

1542:
James V of Scotland (d: December 14, 1542) (Biography of James V of Scotland)

1510:
Friedrich of Saxony (b: October 26, 1473 ; d: December 14, 1510) (Biography of Friedrich of Saxony (1473-1510))

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/14-december/deaths.html