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

Category:Days o the year