December 14

Tuesday 14, 2004:

The Millau viaduct, the highest bridge in the world, is officially opened.

Sunday 14, 2003:

Celebration of the reopening of the Fenice Theater in Venice, Italy.

Thursday 14, 2000:

The Texas 7 rob a Radio Shack in Pearland, Texas. They stole police scanners that would be used in their following infamous heist.

Tuesday 14, 1999:

Charles M. Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts, announced his retirement.

Saturday 14, 1996:

A massive freightliner hits the Riverwalk mall and hotel complex in New Orleans, Louisiana, injuring 116.

Thursday 14, 1995:

The Dayton Agreement was signed in Paris to end the Yugoslav wars.

Saturday 14, 1991:

A rock slide takes off 10 metres of Mount Cook's elevation in New Zealand.

Thursday 14, 1989:

Chile holds its first free election in 16 years. Patricio Aylwin was elected president.

Monday 14, 1981:

Israel annexes the Golan Heights

Friday 14, 1979:

Punk rock band The Clash release the influential double album London Calling.

Monday 14, 1964:

Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States 379 US 241 1964 decided by U.S. Supreme Court

Friday 14, 1962:

The Mona Lisa was assessed at US$100 million, the highest insurance valuance for a painting in history.

Monday 14, 1959:

Motown record label is founded in Detroit, Michigan.

Sunday 14, 1958:

3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first ever to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility

Sunday 14, 1947:

NASCAR founded

Saturday 14, 1946:

UN General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York City

Thursday 14, 1939:

USSR expelled from the League of Nations

Wednesday 14, 1932:

Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom

Saturday 14, 1918:

Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounced the Finnish throne.

Thursday 14, 1911:

First expedition reaches the South Pole, led by Roald Amundsen

Sunday 14, 1902:

First telegraph cable laid across the Pacific Ocean

Friday 14, 1900:

Max Planck publishes his study of quantum theory (The birth of Quantum Theory)

Monday 14, 1896:

Glasgow Underground Railway, third in the world, opens (an accident closes it the same day and it only reopens in 1897),

Tuesday 14, 1819:

Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state

Tuesday 14, 1790:

Alexander Hamilton proposes creation of a Bank of the United States

Monday 14, 1542:

Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland.

Sunday 14, 1287:

Zuider Zee sea wall collapses, killing over 50,000 people

Wednesday 14, 872:

John VIII becomes Pope

Wednesday 14, 867:

Adrian II becomes Pope

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