About December 14
December 14, 2023 is the 348th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 17 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 58 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 14
- 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.
- 1900 –Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
- 1902 –The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1962 –NASA’s Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2003 –President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
- 2004 –Cuba and Venezuela found the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas.
- 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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