Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 14
This is a list of selected December 14 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Damage from the Vargas floods
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1542 – Six-day-old Mary I succeeded to the throne of Scotland. | appears on February 8 |
| 1782 – In Avignon, France, the Montgolfier brothers conducted their first test of their hot air balloon. | refimprove |
| 1896 – Glasgow Subway, the third oldest below-ground metro system in the world after the London Underground and the Budapest Metro, began operations in Glasgow, Scotland. | refimprove, outdated |
| 1900 – German physicist Max Planck presented a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law, suggesting that electromagnetic energy could only be emitted in quantized form. | refimprove section |
| 1918 – Frederick Charles, King of Finland, renounced the throne after criticism of his German nationality in the aftermath of World War I. | {{one source}} |
| 1964 – The United States Supreme Court ruled in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States that Congress could use the Constitution's Commerce Clause power to fight discrimination. | refimprove |
| 1972 - Upon completing the third extra-vehicular activity of Apollo 17, American astronaut Eugene Cernan became the last person to date to walk on the moon. | refimprove |
| 1989 – Chile held its first free election in 16 years and elected Patricio Aylwin as the new President of the Republic. | unreferenced sections |
| 1995 – The Dayton Agreement was signed in Paris to end the Bosnian War, establishing, among others, a new structure of government and political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina. | refimprove section |
| 2004 – The Millau Viaduct spanning the valley of the River Tarn near Millau in France, the tallest vehicular bridge in the world at 343 metres (1,125 ft), opened. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 835 – In the Sweet Dew Incident, Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspired to kill the powerful eunuchs of the Tang court, but the plot was foiled.
- 1819 – Alabama was admitted as the 22nd U.S. state, after the statehood of present-day Northern Alabama was delayed for several years by the lack of a coastline until Mobile was captured from Spain during the War of 1812.
- 1911 – Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team became the first people to reach the South Pole.
- 1960 – Australian cricketer Ian Meckiff was run out on the last day of the first Test between Australia and the West Indies, causing the first Tied Test in the history of cricket.
- 1962 – NASA's Mariner 2 became the world's first spacecraft to successfully conduct a planetary encounter when it flew by Venus.
- 1963 – The dam holding the Baldwin Hills Reservoir in Los Angeles failed, releasing a flood that destroyed 277 homes.
- 1992 – War in Abkhazia: During the Siege of Tkvarcheli, a helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli was shot down, resulting in at least 52 deaths, which catalysed more concerted Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia.
- 1999 – Torrential rains caused 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.
- 2008 – During a press conference in Baghdad, Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi infamously threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush, yelling that "this is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in [the Iraq War]".
- 2009 – The Tino Rangatiratanga flag representing the Māori people was officially recognized by the government of New Zealand.
- 2012 – A 20-year-old gunman shot twenty children and six adult staff members in a mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, US.
December 14: Day of the Martyred Intellectuals in Bangladesh (1971); Monkey Day
- 557 – A large earthquake severely damaged the city of Constantinople.
- 1836 – The Toledo War, the mostly bloodless boundary dispute between Ohio and the adjoining Territory of Michigan, unofficially ended with a resolution passed by the controversial "Frostbitten Convention".
- 1913 – Haruna, the fourth and last ship of the Kongō-class, was launched, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.
- 1994 – Construction on the Three Gorges Dam (pictured) began on the Yangtze River in China.
- 2004 – Cuba and Venezuela founded the Alliance for the Americas, an intergovernmental organization dedicated to the integration of Latin American and Caribbean nations.