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
- 557 –Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake.
- 1287 –St. Lucia’s flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.
- 1782 –The Montgolfier brothers’ first balloon lifts off on its first test flight.
- 1812 –The French invasion of Russia comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from Russia.
- 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.
- 1911 –Roald Amundsen’s team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
- 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.
- 1918 –Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.
- 1939 –Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.
- 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.
- 1961 –The United Republic of Tanzania joins the United Nations.
- 1988 –The ET3 television network is launched in Thessaloniki, Greece.
- 1994 –Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River.
- 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.
- 2006 –American spy satellite USA-193 is launched.
- 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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