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14 December, 2004
The Millau viaduct, the highest bridge in the world, near Millau, France is officially opened.
14 December, 2003
President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
14 December, 1995
Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by leaders of various governments.
14 December, 1981
Arab-Israeli conflict: Israels Knesset passes The Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the area of the Golan Heights.
14 December, 1979
Legendary punk rock group The Clash release London Calling in the UK, a landmark album in rock music.
14 December, 1972
Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of Apollo 17. This was the last manned mission to the moon of the 20th century.
14 December, 1964
American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States - The United States Supreme Court rules that the U.S. Congress can use its Commerce Clause power to fight discrimination.
14 December, 1962
NASAs Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
14 December, 1959
The Motown record label is founded in Detroit, Michigan by Berry Gordy.
14 December, 1958
The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first-ever to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic.
14 December, 1955
Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations.
14 December, 1947
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded in Daytona Beach, Florida.
14 December, 1946
The UN General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York City.
14 December, 1941
German military commander of Kharkiv, Ukraine issued an order, according to which the Jewish population was to move to the city periphery within 2 days, into the barracks of the works of a machine factory. In the next days 15,000 Jews were shot at Drobitsky Yar.
14 December, 1941
World War II: Japan signs treaty of alliance with Thailand.
14 December, 1939
Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations.
14 December, 1918
Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.
14 December, 1914
Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressist Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires.
14 December, 1911
Roald Amundsens team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
14 December, 1907
The schooner Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweathers Reef within the Scilly Isles in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
14 December, 1903
The Wright Brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. It crashes, and 3 days later, after repairs, they get it to fly.
14 December, 1902
The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii.
14 December, 1900
Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
14 December, 1896
The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
14 December, 1836
The Toledo War unofficially ended.
14 December, 1825
Advocates of Liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg.
14 December, 1819
Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.
14 December, 1799
Death of George Washington, first president of the United States.
14 December, 1789
Dartmouth College is chartered by King George III of England.
14 December, 1782
Montgolfier brothers first balloon lifted on its very first test flight.
14 December, 1751
The Theresian Military Academy was founded as the first Military Academy in the world.
14 December, 1702
(according to the old calendar; January 30, 1703 by the new calendar) - The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Oishi Kuranosuke, avenged the death of their master.
14 December, 1542
Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland.
14 December, 1287
St. Lucias flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.

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