December 14

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on December 14. From 1900 until now. December 14 is under the sign of Sagittarius. Famous birthdays on this day include Vanessa Hudgens (1988), Jane Birkin (1946) and Bruno Gaccio (1958). Several movies were released around December 14 over the years, such as Doctor Zhivago in 1965 directed by David Lean and Two Women in 1960 directed by Vittorio De Sica.
But much more happened on December 14 over the years: find out below

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2018 Syrian Civil War: The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces seize control of Hajin, the last major town held by ISIL in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (The Guardian)
2017 Internal armed conflict in Colombia, Paramilitarism in Colombia, Illegal drug trade in Colombia: Colombia's biggest narcotics gang, Clan del Golfo (AGC), declares a cease-fire in effect since December 13. They say the gesture is meant "to contribute to a full, total and lasting peace." The Colombian government says that it welcomes the move but also that it will continue their pressure on the organization. (GMA Network)
2016 Aleppo offensive (November–December 2016): Shelling breaks the ceasefire in Aleppo causing disruption to the evacuation of rebels and civilians. (CNN) (The Star via Reuters) (BBC)
2015 Yemeni Civil War (2015–present), Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen: Two senior army commanders from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are killed, including the head of the Saudi Special forces in Yemen, Colonel Abdullah al-Sahyan, along with dozens of Saudi, Emirati, Sudanese and Yemeni coalition troops in a OTR-21 Tochka missile attack by Houthi forces on their base near the city of Taiz in southwestern Yemen. (Reuters)
2014 Syrian Civil War:: A battle between Bashar al-Assad loyalist forces and Islamist rebels in Aleppo Governorate leave 34 rebels dead and 3 loyalist fighters captured. (EFE via Fox News)
2013 A car bombing in the Malian town of Kidal kills two United Nations peacekeepers. (BBC)
2012 Syrian civil war:: American admiral James G. Stavridis, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe claims that Scud missiles fired by Syria at rebel forces have landed "fairly close" to the border with Turkey. (Reuters)
2011 Thirteen people are killed in Hama, Syria, during the latest violence in the ongoing uprising. (Al Jazeera)
2010 The Philippine government says it will attempt to end the long-running communist insurgency ampquotwithin three yearsampquot, as it announces a resumption of peace talks with rebels. (''Straits Times'')
2009 The Group of 77 (including China, India, UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia) suspends participation in treaty negotiations at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, citing the unwillingness of developed nations to live up to the Kyoto Protocol and what they view as a lack of open negotiations. (BBC) (AP)
2008 President George W. Bush makes his fourth and final (planned) trip to Iraq as president and is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a news conference in Baghdad.
2007 King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia invites the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to visit Mecca for the Hajj pilgrimage. (BBC News)
2006 American spy satellite USA-193 is launched.
2005 The European Parliament has adopted the directive on Telecommunications data retention. (BBC)
2004 Cuba and Venezuela found the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas.
2003 President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
2001 Annular solar eclipse
2000 The full genome sequence of the flowering plant ''Arabidopsis thaliana'' is published in ''Nature''.
1999 Algerian Ahmed Ressam is arrested while crossing the United States-Canada border at Port Angeles, Washington, when United States Customs finds explosives in the trunk of his automobile. The arrest causes fears of a terrorist attack in the United States, and is a major factor in the cancellation of a public New Year's celebration in Seattle, Washington. Ressam is later convicted in a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve.
1998 The Yugoslav Army ambushes a column of 140 Kosovo Liberation Army militants attempting to smuggle arms from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.
1997 View From the Bridge, opens at Criterion Theater, New York City
1996 12th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1995 Les Miserables opens at Cable Hall, Helsinki
1994 A Learjet piloted by Richard Anderson and Brad Sexton misses an elementary school and crashes into an apartment complex in Fresno, California, killing both pilots and injuring several apartment residents.
1993 Moslem fundamentalists murder 12 Kroates / Bosnians in Algeria
1992 Lennox Lewis given WBC title, when Riddick Bowe refuses to fight him.
1991 Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in Red Sea, 476 killed
1990 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later
1989 Lee Van Cleef, American actor (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Sabata), dies at age 64.
1988 US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Organization (first time in 13 years).
1987 Chrysler pleads no contest to selling driven vehicles as new.
1986 Voyager experimental aircraft, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, takes off from Edwards Air Force Base, California on first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world.
1985 US Foreign Minister George Shultz arrives in West Berlin
1984 Nigeria recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
1983 Peg opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 5 performances
1982 Marcel Dionne, Los Angeles, California, becomes 9th NHL player to score 500 goals.
1981 Arab-Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset passes The Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the area of the Golan Heights.
1980 Onward Victoria opens / closes at Martin Beck NYC for 1 performance
1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1978 Ballroom opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 116 performances
1977 Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta, premieres in New York City
1975 Treemonisha closes at Uris Theater NYC after 64 performances
1972 Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt leave the Moon
1971 Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure
1969 La Strada opens / closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC for 1 performance
1967 DNA created in a test tube.
1965 La Grusse Valise opens at 54th St. Theater NYC for 7 performances
1964 Michael Brown meets Rene Fladen, then writes Walk Away Rene
1963 Verne Gagne beats The Crusher in Minneapolis, to become NWA champion.
1962 Mariner 2 launched; makes first US visit to another planet (Venus).
1961 The United Republic of Tanzania joins the United Nations.
1960 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) forms.
1959 J B Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513 metres.
1958 The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first expedition to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic.
1957 Most Happy Fella closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 678 performances
1956 Paul-Henri Spaak is appointed Secretary-General of NATO.
1955 Dutch Reformed Church condemns woman / wife as vicar
1954 WOAY TV channel 4 in Oak Hill-Beckley, WV (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 Brooklyn Dodgers signs pitcher Sandy Koufax.
1952 KROD (now KDBC) TV channel 4 in El Paso, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 Bless You All opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 84 performances
1949 Traicho Kostov, ex-vice prime minister of Bulgaria, is sentenced to death.
1947 Cleveland Browns beat the New York Yankees 14-3 in AAFC championship game
1946 Three to Make Ready closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 323 performances
1944 Begin (ning) Liese-Aktion: werving of labor force for Germany
1941 Premier Winston Churchill travels to US on board HMS Duke of York
1939 Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union
1938 Will Harridge is elected to a 10-year-term as American League (baseball) president.
1937 Japanese troops conquer / plunder Nanjing
1934 First streamlined steam locomotive introduced (Albany, New York).
1933 Josephine Baker performs in Amsterdam
1932 French government of Edouard Herriot falls.
1930 New York Giants defeat Notre Dame 22-0 in a charity game.
1929 Alexander Zaimis elected President of Greece.
1927 Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain.
1926 Danish Madsen government forms.
1924 Chiang Kai-shek occupies Hankou, China.
1920 Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1915 Jack Johnson is first black world heavyweight boxing champion.
1914 Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Democrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires.
1913 Greece formally takes possession of Crete.
1911 South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
1909 New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signed the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.
1907 The schooner Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Scilly Isles in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
1906 The first German Imperial Navy submarine, ''U-1'' (launched on August 4), is commissioned.
1903 The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1902 The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii.
1900 Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
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