What happened this day in history December 14

What are the important events that happened on December 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

December 14: Facts & Myths About This Day

December 14 is the 349th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 17 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 1, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,734,134,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatetracontaenneagon’ day.

Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 46 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,376 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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December 14 Historical Events

  • 1814
    War of 1812: The Royal Navy seizes control of Lake Borgne, Louisiana.
  • 1819
    Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.
  • 1896
    The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
  • 1907
    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.
  • 1909
    New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signed the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.
  • 1913
    Haruna, the fourth and last ship of the Sclass Kongō, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.
  • 1914
    Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires.
  • 1972
    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 the Apollo 17 mission. To date this is the last manned mission to the moon.
  • 2004
    The Millau viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, near Millau, France is officially opened.
  • 2008
    President George W. Bush makes his fourth and final (planned) trip to Iraq as president and is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a news conference in Baghdad.

Who were born on December 14?

  • 1918
    James T. Aubrey, American television executive (d. 1994)
  • 1946
    Patty Duke, American actress
  • 1956
    Hanni Wenzel, Liechtenstein skier
  • 1963
    Alice Ripley American actress
  • 1965
    Ted Raimi, an American actor
  • 1970
    Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer
  • 1971
    Tia Texada, American actress and singer
  • 1973
    Tomasz Radzinski, Polish-born Canadian soccer player
  • 1975
    KaDee Strickland, American actress
  • 1984
    Edward Rainsford, Zimbabwean cricketer

Who died on December 14?

  • 1476
    Vlad III the Impaler (b. 1431)
  • 1510
    Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)
  • 1735
    Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674)
  • 1799
    George Washington, First President of the United States (b. 1732)
  • 1865
    Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (b. 1794)
  • 1873
    Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born American zoologist and geologist (b. 1807)
  • 1957
    Fred Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1872)
  • 1971
    Dick Tiger, Nigerian-born boxer (b. 1929)
  • 1996
    Gaston Miron, French-Canadian poet and editor (b. 1928)
  • 2001
    W. G. Sebald, German writer (b. 1944)

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