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On this day - December 14
557 — Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake, which ...
835 — Sweet Dew Incident: Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty ...
872 — Pope John VIII is elected following the death of Hadrian II.
1287 — St. Lucia's flood: The Zuiderzee sea wall in the ...
1542 — Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen of Scots at the age of one ...
1751 — The Theresian Military Academy is founded in Wiener Neustadt, ...
1780 — Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler ...
1782 — The Montgolfier brothers first test fly an unmanned hot air ...
1812 — The French invasion of Russia comes to an end as the remnants ...
1814 — War of 1812: The Royal Navy seizes control of Lake Borgne, ...
1819 — Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.
1836 — The Toledo War unofficially ends as the "Frostbitten ...
1863 — American Civil War: The Confederate victory under General ...
1896 — The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow ...
1900 — Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical ...
1902 — The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific ...
1903 — The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the ...
1907 — The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat ...
1909 — New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of ...
1911 — Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, ...
1913 — Haruna, the fourth and last Kongō-class ship, launches, ...
1914 — Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic ...
1918 — Giacomo Puccini's comic opera Gianni Schicchi premieres ...
1918 — The 1918 United Kingdom general election occurs, the first ...
1918 — Portuguese President Sidónio Pais is assassinated.
1918 — Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the ...
1925 — Wozzeck, Alban Berg's first opera, is premiered at the ...
1939 — Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of ...
1940 — Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, ...
1942 — An Aeroflot Tupolev ANT-20 crashes near Tashkent, killing all ...
1948 — Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann are granted a ...
1955 — Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, ...
1958 — The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach ...
1960 — Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is ...
1962 — NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by ...
1963 — The dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir bursts, killing ...
1964 — American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. ...
1971 — Bangladesh Liberation War: Over 200 of East Pakistan's ...
1972 — Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the most recent person to ...
1981 — Arab–Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset ratifies the ...
1985 — Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first woman elected to ...
1986 — Qasba Aligarh massacre: Over 400 Muhajirs killed in revenge ...
1992 — War in Abkhazia: Siege of Tkvarcheli: A helicopter carrying ...
1994 — Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze ...
1995 — Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by the ...
1998 — Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo ...
1999 — Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, ...
2003 — Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escapes an ...
2004 — The Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, is ...
2012 — Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, ...
2013 — A reported coup attempt in South Sudan leads to continued ...
2017 — The Walt Disney Company announces that it would acquire 21st ...
2020 — A total solar eclipse is visible from parts of the South ...
2025 — At least 16 people are killed, including one gunman, and 43 ...