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 348^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 17 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 1, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 490,464 hours 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 ‘trihectatetracontaoctagon’ 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 65 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 4,741 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

December 14 Historical Events

• 1896 –
  The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
• 1939 –
  Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.
• 1941 –
  World War II: Japan signs treaty of alliance with Thailand.
• 1946 –
  The United Nations General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York City.
• 1958 –
  The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first expedition to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic.
• 1964 –
  American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States – The United States Supreme Court rules that the U.S. Congress can use the Constitution’s Commerce Clause power to fight discrimination.
• 1971 –
  Over 200 of East Pakistan’s (now Bangladesh) intellectuals are massacred by the Pakistani Army and their local allies.
• 1981 –
  Arab-Israeli conflict: Israel’s Knesset passes The Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the area of the Golan Heights.
• 1983 –
  The 3rd Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
• 1992 –
  War in Abkhazia: During the Siege of Tkvarcheli, a helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli, Abkhazia, is shot down, resulting in at least 52 deaths, 25 of which are children. The incident catalyses more concerted Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia.

Who were born on December 14?

• 1881 –
  Katherine MacDonald, American actress and film producer (d. 1956)
• 1917 –
  C.-H. Hermansson, Swedish communist leader
• 1922 –
  Nikolay Basov, Soviet physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2001)
• 1927 –
  Richard Cassilly, American tenor (d. 1998)
• 1940 –
  Lex Gold, Scottish football administrator
• 1946 –
  Stan Smith, American tennis player
• 1965 –
  Craig Biggio, American baseball player
• 1971 –
  Brian Gay, professional golfer; three-time winner on the PGA Tour
• 1982 –
  Anthony Way, English singer and actor
• 1985 –
  Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress

Who died on December 14?

• 1542 –
  King James V of Scotland (b. 1512)
• 1553 –
  Hanibal Lucić, Croatian writer (b. 1485)
• 1591 –
  Saint John of the Cross, Spanish friar and poet (b. 1542)
• 1624 –
  Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536)
• 1735 –
  Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674)
• 1741 –
  Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661)
• 1966 –
  Shailendra, Indian lyricist (b. 1923)
• 1971 –
  Dick Tiger, Nigerian-born boxer (b. 1929)
• 2001 –
  W. G. Sebald, German writer (b. 1944)
• 2010 –
  Dale Roberts, English footballer (b. 1986)