Historical Events on December 14, Special Events on This Day

1. Birthday Age Calculator
2. Historical Events in December
3. Historical Events on December 14

Important Events From This day in History December 14th. Find Out What happened 14th December This Day in History on your birthday. Also you can find some answers for the following questions;
Which major historical events happened on December 14?
What happened on December 14th in history?
What special day is December 14?
What happened in history on December 14th?

What Happened on December 14th This Day in History

Year	Name
2020	A total solar eclipse is visible from parts of the South Pacific Ocean, southern South America, and the South Atlantic Ocean.
2017	The Walt Disney Company announces that it would acquire 21st Century Fox, including the 20th Century Fox movie studio, for $52.4 billion.
2013	A reported coup attempt in South Sudan leads to continued fighting and hundreds of casualties.
2012	Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
2004	The Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, is formally inaugurated near Millau, France.
2003	Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
1999	Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.
1998	Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.
1995	Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by the leaders of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1994	Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.
1992	War in Abkhazia: Siege of Tkvarcheli: A helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli is shot down, resulting in at least 52 deaths, including 25 children. The incident catalyses more concerted Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia.
1986	Qasba Aligarh massacre: Over 400 Muhajirs killed in revenge killings in Qasba colony after a raid on Pashtun heroin processing and distribution center in Sohrab Goth by the security forces.
1985	Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
1981	Arab–Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset ratifies the Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the Golan Heights.
1972	Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the most recent person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.
1971	Bangladesh Liberation War: Over 200 of East Pakistan's intellectuals are executed by the Pakistan Army and their local allies. (The date is commemorated in Bangladesh as Martyred Intellectuals Day.)
1964	American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Congress can use the Constitution's Commerce Clause to fight discrimination.
1963	The dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles, California.
1962	NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
1960	Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is adopted.
1958	The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility.
1955	Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations through United Nations Security Council Resolution 109.
1948	Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann are granted a patent for their cathode-ray tube amusement device, the earliest known interactive electronic game.
1940	Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.
1939	Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.
1918	Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.
1918	Portuguese President Sidónio Pais is assassinated.
1918	The 1918 United Kingdom general election occurs, the first where women were permitted to vote. In Ireland the Irish republican political party Sinn Féin wins a landslide victory with nearly 47% of the popular vote.
1918	Giacomo Puccini's comic opera Gianni Schicchi premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
1914	Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1913	Haruna, the fourth and last Kongō-class ship, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.
1911	Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
1909	New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.
1907	The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
1903	The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1902	The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
1900	Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law (quantum theory) at the Physic Society in Berlin.
1896	The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
1863	American Civil War: The Confederate victory under General James Longstreet at the Battle of Bean's Station in East Tennessee ends the Knoxville Campaign, but achieves very little as Longstreet returns to Virginia next spring.
1836	The Toledo War unofficially ends as the "Frostbitten Convention" votes to accept Congress' terms for admitting Michigan as a U.S. state.
1819	Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.
1814	War of 1812: The Royal Navy seizes control of Lake Borgne, Louisiana.
1812	The French invasion of Russia comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from Russia.
1782	The Montgolfier brothers first test fly an unmanned hot air balloon in France; it floats nearly 2.5 km (1.6 mi).
1780	Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York.
1751	The Theresian Military Academy is founded in Wiener Neustadt, Austria.
1542	Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen of Scots at the age of one week on the death of her father, James V of Scotland.
1287	St. Lucia's flood: The Zuiderzee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.
835	Sweet Dew Incident: Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspires to kill the powerful eunuchs of the Tang court, but the plot is foiled.
557	Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake, which cracks the dome of Hagia Sophia.

Famous People Born on December 14

Here is a random list who born on December 14. For full list please click on the link above.

Year	Name
1881	Katherine MacDonald, American actress and producer (d. 1956)
1976	Leland Chapman, American bounty hunter
1884	Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright (d. 1950)
1947	Christopher Parkening, American guitarist and educator
1989	Sam Burgess, English rugby league player
1978	Zdeněk Pospěch, Czech footballer
1934	Charlie Hodge, American guitarist and singer (d. 2006)
1911	Spike Jones, American singer and bandleader (d. 1965)
1976	André Couto, Portuguese race car driver
1959	Bob Paris, American-Canadian bodybuilder and actor

Famous People Deaths On December 14

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on December 14. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
2001	W. G. Sebald, German novelist, essayist, and poet (b. 1944)
1460	Guarino da Verona, Italian scholar and translator (b. 1370)
1956	Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish lawyer and politician, 7th President of Finland (b. 1870)
1996	Gaston Miron, Canadian poet and author (b. 1928)
1953	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author and academic (b. 1896)
2003	Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925)
1417	John Oldcastle, English Lollard leader
1595	Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (b. 1535)
2006	Anton Balasingham, Sri Lankan-English strategist and negotiator (b. 1938)
1293	Al-Ashraf Khalil, Mamluk sultan of Egypt