It happened on this day, December 14
It happened that day
December 14
Events:
557 – Constantinople is severely destroyed by an earthquake.
1751 – The “Thrician Military Academy” is established as the world's first military academy.
1825 – Start of the Decembrist Revolution in the Russian Empire against Tsar Nicholas I.
1865 – Start of the trip of the Moroccan ambassador Mohamed Bensaid Slaoui to France.
1900 – Max Planck proposes a theoretical derivation of the law of black body radiation in quantum mechanics.
1901 – Scientist Guglielmo Marconi establishes the first wireless connection.
1911 – Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and four colleagues reach the South Pole for the first time.
1939 – The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations after attacking Finland in the Winter War.
1947 – Opening of the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid.
1950 – The United Nations General Assembly approved the creation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The aim of its creation was to provide humanitarian aid, protect refugees and solve their problems in various parts of the world.
1955 – 16 countries join the United Nations, including Jordan, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
1957 – Creation of the Moroccan Red Crescent.
1967 – The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine issues its first military communiqué.
1981 – Israel decides to annex the occupied Syrian Golan and impose its law there, but the international community rejects this decision.
1987 – Formal announcement of the establishment of the Islamic Resistance Movement/Hamas as a national jihadist organization aimed at reclaiming Palestine, the historic national homeland of the Palestinians with Jerusalem as its capital. The movement was founded by Ahmed Yassin.
1988 – The United States agrees for the first time to hold direct discussions with the Palestine Liberation Organization, since the United Nations recognizes the organization as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people and grants it observer status to the United Nations.
2003 – Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf survives an assassination attempt, the third since he came to power.
2004 – Cuba and Venezuela create the Alliance for the Americas.
💥 Milo Bridge is officially inaugurated as the longest bridge in the world.
2008 – American President George W. Bush visits Iraq and signs the Iraqi-American security agreement with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki During a press conference with the Iraqi Prime Minister, the American president told him was launched with two shoes by Muntadhar al. -Zaidi, correspondent for Al-Baghdadiya television.
2009 – Leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries launch an electricity interconnection project between their countries in Kuwait.
2010 – Two suicide bombings in the Iranian town of Chabahar by two suicide bombers who blew themselves up during a crowded Shiite mourning procession, killing 32 people and injuring 95.
2013 – Chinese spacecraft Chang'e-3 lands on the surface of the Moon with the Yutu probe, becoming the first spacecraft to do so since 1976 AD.
2017 – The Walt Disney Company announces the acquisition of most of the assets of Twenty-First Century Fox for $52.4 billion.
💥 The US Federal Communications Commission votes on a proposal to repeal the country's package of net neutrality laws, which will give telecom companies legal power to manipulate site speeds Web and impose censorship on Web content.
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Births:
1503 – Nostradamus, French physician and astrologer.
1824 – Pierre Cécile Puvis de Chavannes, French painter.
1861 – Jurji Zidane, Lebanese writer and historian.
1883 – Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido.
1895 – King George VI, king of the United Kingdom.
** Paul Eluard, French poet.
1896 – Aziz Al-Jalouli, Tunisian politician and businessman.
1909 – Edward Tatum, American biologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1958…
1918 – Nour al-Din al-Khayashi, Tunisian painter.
1922 – Nikolai Basov, Russian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964…
1924 – Gohar Gasparyan, Armenian-Egyptian opera singer.
1936 – Soraya Chaoui, Moroccan pilot captain.
1942 – Bui Tung Phung, Vietnamese researcher and one of the pioneers of computer graphics.
1946 – Salima Khudair, Iraqi actress.
1947 – Dilma Rousseff, 36th president of Brazil
1956 – Salman Al-Awda, Saudi religious scholar.
1960 – Chris Waddle, English footballer and manager.
1965 – Ted Raimi, American actor.
** Suleiman Bughaith, official spokesperson for Al-Qaeda.
1968 – Mohamed Saad, Egyptian actor.
1970 – Anna Maria Jobek, Polish singer.
1976 – Santiago Azquero, Spanish footballer.
** Sherif Fathi Al-Mashad is an Egyptian detainee at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay.
1978 – Patty Schneider, Swiss tennis player.
1979 – Michael Owen, English footballer.
1980 – Didier Zokora, Ivorian footballer.
1981 – Liam Lawrence, English footballer.
1982 – Steve Sidwell, English footballer.
1985 – Jakub Blaszczykowski, Polish footballer.
1988 – Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer.
1989 – Pedro Botelho, Brazilian footballer.
** Onew, South Korean singer.
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Death:
1542 – King James V, king of Scotland.
1788 – King Carlos III, king of Spain.
1799 – George Washington, first president of the United States.
1860 – George Hamilton Gordon, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1861 – Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria.
1890 – Muhammad Faydi Al-Zahawi, Iraqi jurist and religious scholar.
1933 – Muhammad Hussein Al-Jabbawi, Iraqi Muslim jurist and poet.
1923 – Muhammad Hassan Sumaisim, Iraqi poet.
1947 – Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1956 – Juho Kosti Paasikivi, seventh president of Finland.
1972 – Angel Karalychev is a Bulgarian writer specializing in children's literature.
1984 – Vicente Alexandre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977.
1984 – Adel Abu Rabia, Lebanese soldier.
1989 – Andrei Sakharov, Soviet nuclear scientist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975.
2001 – Winfried Georg Sebald, German writer.
2009 – Lieutenant General Rifaat Jibril, head of Egyptian General Intelligence and head of the National Security Authority.
2013 – Peter O'Toole, Irish actor best known for his role in the film Lawrence of Arabia.
2014 – Abdulaziz Daqmaq, Syrian poet and lawyer.
2016 – Ahmed Rateb, Egyptian actor.
2020 – Gérard Houllier, French coach.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Antarctica Day.
⏪ Teachers’ Day in Palestine.
