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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