About December 14
December 14, 2025 is the 348th 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.
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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 65 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 14
- 1751 –The Theresian Military Academy is founded as the first Military Academy in the world.
- 1814 –War of 1812: The Royal Navy seizes control of Lake Borgne, Louisiana.
- 1819 –Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.
- 1836 –The Toledo War unofficially ends.
- 1900 –Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1961 –The United Republic of Tanzania joins the United Nations.
- 1962 –NASA’s Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
- 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.
- 1995 –Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by leaders of various governments.
- 2003 –President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
- 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.
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