14 December History


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  • 1799    -    George Washington dies on his Mount Vernon estate.
  • 1819    -    Alabama is admitted as the 22nd state, making 11 slave states and 11 free states.
  • 1861    -    Prince Albert of England, one of the Union's strongest advocates, dies.
  • 1863    -    Confederate General James Longstreet attacks Union troops at Bean's Station, Tenn.
  • 1863    -    President Abraham Lincoln grants amnesty to the widow of Confederate General B.H. Helm after she swears allegiance to the Union. Mrs. Helm is the half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln.
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  • 1900    -    Max Planck presents the quantum theory at the Physics Society in Berlin.
  • 1906    -    The first U1 submarine is brought into service in Germany. Italy's MAS torpedo boats.
  • 1908    -    The first truly representative Turkish Parliament opens.
  • 1909    -    The Labor Conference in Pittsburgh ends with a "declaration of war" on U.S. Steel.
  • 1911    -    Roald Amundsen and four others discover the South Pole.
  • 1920    -    The League of Nations creates a credit system to aid Europe.
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  • 1939    -    The League of Nations drops the Soviet Union from its membership. Joseph Avenol sold out the League of Nations.
  • 1941    -    German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel orders the construction of defensive positions along the European coastline. Desperate Hours on Omaha Beach
  • 1946    -    The United Nations adopt a disarmament resolution prohibiting the A-Bomb.
  • 1949    -    Bulgarian ex-Premier Traicho Kostov is sentenced to die for treason in Sofia.
  • 1960    -    A U.S. Boeing B-52 bomber sets a 10,000-mile non-stop record without refueling.
  • 1980    -    NATO warns the Soviets to stay out of the internal affairs of Poland, saying that intervention would effectively destroy the détente between the East and West.
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  • 14 December Birthdays

  • 1503    -    Nostradamus [Michel de Nostredame], French astrologer and physician.
  • 1546    -    Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer.
  • 1585    -    Henry IV, the first Bourbon king of France.
  • 1795    -    John Bloomfield Jarvis, civil engineer.
  • 1822    -    John Christie, English patron of music.
  • 1866    -    Roger Fry, English art critic.
  • 1896    -    James H. Doolittle, American Air Force general who commanded the first bombing mission over Japan.
  • 1916    -    Shirley Jackson, novelist and short story writer (Life Among Savages, The Lottery).
  • 1946    -    Patty Duke, American actress.