About December 14
December 14, 2024 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.
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Sagittarius is the sun 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.
What Happened On December 14
- 1542 –Princess Mary Stuart becomes Mary, Queen of Scots.
- 1782 –The Montgolfier brothers’ first balloon lifts off on its first test flight.
- 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.
- 1900 –Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
- 1903 –The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
- 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.
- 1918 –President of Portugal Sidónio Pais is assassinated.
- 1955 –Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sri Lanka join the United Nations.
- 1958 –The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first expedition to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic.
- 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.
- 1988 –The ET3 television network is launched in Thessaloniki, Greece.
- 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.
- 1995 –Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by leaders of various governments.
- 1999 –Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
- 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.
- 2003 –President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
- 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.
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