What are the important events that happened on December 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
December 14: Facts & Myths About This Day
December 14 is the 348th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 17 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 1, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,427,840 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatetracontaoctagon’ day.
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Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 65 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,741 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 14 Historical Events
- 1287 –St. Lucia’s flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.
- 1782 –The Montgolfier brothers’ first balloon lifts off on its first test flight.
- 1814 –War of 1812: The Royal Navy seizes control of Lake Borgne, Louisiana.
- 1819 –Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.
- 1918 –President of Portugal Sidónio Pais is assassinated.
- 1939 –Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.
- 1941 –World War II: Japan signs treaty of alliance with Thailand.
- 1958 –The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first expedition to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic.
- 1988 –The ET3 television network is launched in Thessaloniki, Greece.
- 1999 –Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state’s infrastructure.
Who were born on December 14?
- 1917 –Elyse Knox, American actress
- 1920 –Clark Terry, American trumpeter
- 1954 –Steven MacLean, Canadian astronaut
- 1963 –Mario Yamasaki, Mixed martial arts referee
- 1971 –Brian Gay, professional golfer; three-time winner on the PGA Tour
- 1973 –Tomasz Radzinski, Polish-born Canadian soccer player
- 1974 –Billy Koch, American baseball player
- 1978 –Radu Sârbu, Moldovan-born Romanian singer (O-Zone)
- 1979 –Sophie Monk, Australian actress, singer, and model
- 1988 –Nicolas Batum, French basketball player
Who died on December 14?
- 1715 –Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636)
- 1788 –Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (b. 1714)
- 1799 –George Washington, First President of the United States (b. 1732)
- 1943 –John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon and breakfast food manufacturer (b. 1852)
- 1947 –Edward Higgins, American evangelical (b. 1864)
- 1964 –William Bendix, American actor (b. 1906)
- 1990 –Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (b. 1921)
- 1998 –Annette Strauss, American philanthropist (b. 1924)
- 2003 –Blas Ople, Filipino diplomat (b. 1927)
- 2006 –Anton Balasingham, Sri Lankan political strategist (b. 1938)
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