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
- 1287 –St. Lucia’s flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.
- 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.
- 1911 –Roald Amundsen’s team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
- 1914 –Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1981 –Arab-Israeli conflict: Israel’s Knesset passes The Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the area of the Golan Heights.
- 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.
- 2004 –The Millau viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, near Millau, France is officially opened.
- 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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