December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 17 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).
NATIONAL BOUILLABAISSE DAY
NATIONAL BOUILLABAISSE DAY
1542 – Princess Mary Stuart succeeds her father James V and becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland at 6 days old.
1600 – Dutchman Olivier van Noort sinks the Spanish galleon San Diego at Bay of Manila, 350 die. The galleon's wreckage was found in 1991.
1702 – The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.
1799 – George Washington, the American revolutionary leader and first president of the United States, dies of acute laryngitis at his estate in Mount Vernon, Virginia. He was 67 years old.
1882 – English Explorer, Henry Morton Stanley, returns to Brussels from the Congo. He was famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
1900 – German physicist Max Planck publishes his groundbreaking study of the effect of radiation on a "blackbody" substance, and the quantum theory of modern physics is born.
1911 – Norwegian Roald Amundsen becomes the first explorer to reach the South Pole, beating his British rival, Robert Falcon Scott.
1939 – On this day, the League of Nations, the international peacekeeping organization formed at the end of World War I, expels the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in response to the Soviets' invasion of Finland on October 30.
1944 - Congress establishes the rank of General of Army (5-star General). The first five-star generals were George Marshall (December 16, 1944), Douglas MacArthur (December 18, 1944), Dwight D. Eisenhower (December 20, 1944) and Henry H. Arnold (December 21, 1944).
1951 – "I am born."
1962 – Mariner 2 makes the first U.S. fly-by of another planet (Venus).
1972 – Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt blast off to dock with the Apollo 17 Command Module, being the last men to stand on the Moon. Cernan wrote his daughter's initials in the moon's dusty surface before leaving, which should remain undisturbed until the end of the solar system.
1972 – Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt blast off to dock with the Apollo 17 Command Module, being the last men to stand on the Moon. Cernan wrote his daughter's initials in the moon's dusty surface before leaving, which should remain undisturbed until the end of the solar system.
2012 – On this day in 2012, a 20-year-old man shoots and kills his mother at their Newtown, Connecticut, home then drives to nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he kills 20 first graders and six school employees before turning a gun on himself.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1546 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and chemist (d. 1601)
1896 – Jimmy Doolittle, American general and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993)
1897 – Margaret Chase Smith, American educator and politician (d. 1995)
1943 – Emmett Tyrrell, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded The American Spectator
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