14 December

The 14t o December is the 348t day o the year (349t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 17 days bidin.

Events

1911: Roald Amundsen's expedeetion at the Sooth Pole

1995: Signin o the Dayton Agreement in Paris

• 1542 - Mary, Queen o Scots takes tae the throne, agit 6 days.
• 1819 - Alabama becomes the 22nt state o the Unitit States.
• 1861 - Daith o Albert, Prince Consort, agit juist 42.
• 1896 - The Glesga Undergroond opens.
• 1911 - Roald Amundsen's Norse expedeetion reaches the Sooth Pole.
• 1941 - Warld War II: Japan signs a treaty alliance wi Thailand.
• 1961 - Tanganyika jyns the Unitit Naitions.
• 1962 - The "Mariner 2" probe flies bi Venus.
• 1972 - Apollo 17 leaves the Muin.
• 1989 - Patricio Aylwin is electit Preses o Chile.
• 1995 - Yugoslav Wars: Leaders o the umwhile Yugoslav republics sign the Dayton peace agreement in Paris.
• 1999 - Kiribati, Nauru an Tonga jyn the Unitit Naitions.
• 2004 - The Millau Viaduct, the tallest Brig in the warld, opens in Soothren Fraunce.
• 2008 - Shoes are thrawn at US Preses George W. Bush on his last veesit tae Baghdad afore steppin doon.
• 2008 - Scots cyclist Chris Hoy wins the BBC Sports Personality o the Year awaird.
• 2012 - A gunman kills 28 fowk in the Sandy Hook shuitin in Newtown, Connecticut, incluidin 20 schuilchildren.
• 2017 - The Walt Disney Company propales its intendit purchase o 21st Century Fox for 52 billion US dollars.
• 2017 - The starn Kepler 90-b is revealed tae hae 8 planets orbitin aroond it, the semme nummer as the Solar Seestem.
• 2020 - A total solar eclipse is seen ower central pairts o Chile an Argentinae.

Births

Tycho Brahe

Dilma Rousseff

• 1503 - Nostradamus, French astrologer (d. 1566)
• 1546 - Tycho Brahe, Dens astronomer (d. 1601)
• 1852 - Watson Cheyne, Scots surgeon an bacteriologist (d. 1932)
• 1870 - Karl Renner, Preses o Austrick (d. 1950)
• 1892 - Jimmy McColl, Scots fitbawer (d. 1978)
• 1895 - George VI, Keeng o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1952)
• 1897 - Kurt Schuschnigg, Chancellor o Austrick (d. 1977)
• 1901 - Paul o Greece (d. 1964)
• 1914 - Karl Carstens, Preses o Wast Germany (d. 1992)
• 1917 - Alberto Morrocco, Scots airtist an teacher (d. 1998)
• 1918 - B. K. S. Iyengar, Indie yoga teacher (d. 2014)
• 1922 - Nikolay Basov, Roushie pheesicist (d. 2001)
• 1946 - Peter Lorimer, Scots fitbawer
• 1947 - Dilma Rousseff, umwhile Preses o Brazil
• 1956 - Linda Fabiani, Scots politeecian
• 1960 - James Comey, umwhile Director o the Federal Bureau o Investigation
• 1966 - Helle Thorning-Schmidt, umwhile Prime meenister o Denmark
• 1969 - Greg Hemphill, Scots actor, comedian an writer
• 1973 - Allan Johnston, Scots fitbawer
• 1979 - Michael Owen, Inglis fitbawer
• 1980 - Gordon Greer, Scots fitbawer
• 1985 - Jakub Blaszczykowski, Pols fitbawer
• 1988 - Vanessa Hudgens, American actress an sangster

Daiths

• 1542 - James V o Scotland (b. 1512)
• 1788 - Charles III o Spain (b. 1716)
• 1799 - George Washington, 1st Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1732)
• 1843 - John Claudius Loudon, Scots botanist (b. 1783)
• 1860 - George Hamilton-Gordon, 4t Yerl o Aiberdeen, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1784)
• 1861 - Albert, Prince Consort (b. 1819)
• 1861 - William Cunningham, Scots theologian (b. 1805)
• 1873 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American geologist (b. 1807)
• 1947 - Stanley Baldwin, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1867)
• 1947 - Will Fyffe, Scots muisic haw enterteener (b. 1885)
• 1956 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Preses o Finland (b. 1870)
• 1984 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spainyie poet (b. 1898)
• 1989 - Andrei Sakharov, Roushie scientist an activist (b. 1921)
• 2013 - Peter O'Toole, Erse actor (b. 1923)

Halidays

Banner o Alabama

• The feast o Saunt John o the Cross
• Alabama Day
• Monkey Day
• Day o the Martyred Intellectuals (Bangladesh)