December 14 Events |
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| December 14th, 2004 (December 14 2004) | Event | The Millau viaduct, the highest bridge in the world, near Millau, France is officially opened. | |
| December 14th, 2003 (December 14 2003) | Event | President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt. | |
| December 14th, 2003 (December 14 2003) | Event | President George W. Bush announces the capture of Saddam Hussein. | Saddam Hussein Quotes |
| December 14th, 1995 (December 14 1995) | Event | Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by leaders of various governments. | |
| December 14th, 1981 (December 14 1981) | Event | Arab-Israeli conflict: Israel s Knesset passes The Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the area of the Golan Heights. | |
| December 14th, 1972 (December 14 1972) | Event | Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of Apollo 17. This was the last manned mission to the moon of the 20th century. | |
| December 14th, 1964 (December 14 1964) | Event | American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United StatesThe United States Supreme Court rules that the U.S. Congress can use its Commerce Clause power to fight discrimination. | |
| December 14th, 1962 (December 14 1962) | Event | NASA s Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus. | |
| December 14th, 1958 (December 14 1958) | Event | The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first expedition to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic. | |
| December 14th, 1955 (December 14 1955) | Event | Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations. | |
| December 14th, 1947 (December 14 1947) | Event | The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded in Daytona Beach, Florida. | |
| December 14th, 1946 (December 14 1946) | Event | The UN General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York City. | |
| December 14th, 1941 (December 14 1941) | Event | German military commander of Kharkiv, Ukraine issues an order, under which the Jewish population was to move to the city periphery within 2 days, into the barracks of the works of a machine factory. In the next days 15,000 Jews are shot at Drobitsky Yar. | |
| December 14th, 1941 (December 14 1941) | Event | World War II: Japan signs treaty of alliance with Thailand. | |
| December 14th, 1939 (December 14 1939) | Event | Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations. | |
| December 14th, 1918 (December 14 1918) | Event | Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Vaino I, renounces the Finnish throne. | Karl Hess Quotes |
| December 14th, 1914 (December 14 1914) | Event | Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressist Party (Partido Democrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires. | |
| December 14th, 1911 (December 14 1911) | Event | Roald Amundsen s team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole. | |
| December 14th, 1907 (December 14 1907) | Event | The schooner Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather s Reef within the Scilly Isles in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die. | |
| December 14th, 1903 (December 14 1903) | Event | The Wright Brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. | |
| December 14th, 1902 (December 14 1902) | Event | The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii. | |
| December 14th, 1900 (December 14 1900) | Event | Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law. | |
| December 14th, 1896 (December 14 1896) | Event | The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company. | |
| December 14th, 1836 (December 14 1836) | Event | The Toledo War unofficially ends. | |
| December 14th, 1825 (December 14 1825) | Event | Advocates of Liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg. | |
| December 14th, 1819 (December 14 1819) | Event | Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state. | |
| December 14th, 1782 (December 14 1782) | Event | The Montgolfier brothers first balloon lifts on its first test flight. | |
| December 14th, 1751 (December 14 1751) | Event | The Theresian Military Academy is founded as the first Military Academy in the world. | |
| December 14th, 1542 (December 14 1542) | Event | Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland. | |
| December 14th, 1287 (December 14 1287) | Event | St. Lucia s flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people. | |
