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
- 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.
- 1542 –Princess Mary Stuart becomes Mary, Queen of Scots.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1918 –Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.
- 1918 –President of Portugal Sidónio Pais is assassinated.
- 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.
- 1961 –The United Republic of Tanzania joins the United Nations.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2003 –President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
- 2004 –Cuba and Venezuela found the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas.
- 2006 –American spy satellite USA-193 is launched.
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