December 14

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December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 17 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 557 – Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake.
• 1287 – St. Lucia's flood: The Zuiderzee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.
• 1542 – Princess Mary Stuart becomes Mary, Queen of Scots.
• 1751 – The Theresian Military Academy is founded as the first Military Academy in the world.
• 1782 – The Montgolfier brothers' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight.
• 1812 – The French invasion of Russia comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from Russia.
• 1814 – War of 1812: The Royal Navy seizes control of Lake Borgne, Louisiana.
• 1819 – Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.
• 1836 – The Toledo War unofficially ends.
• 1896 – The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
• 1900 – Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
• 1902 – The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii.
• 1903 – The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
• 1907 – The schooner runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
• 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.
• 1911 – Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
• 1913 – Haruna, the fourth and last ship of the Kongō-class, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.
• 1914 – Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 1918 – Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.
• 1918 – The 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.
• 1946 – The United Nations General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York, New York.
• 1955 – Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sri Lanka join the United Nations.
• 1958 – The third Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first expedition to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic.
• 1961 – Tanzania joins the United Nations.
• 1962 – NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
• 1963 – Baldwin Hills Reservoir wall bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles, California.
• 1964 – American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States – The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the U.S. Congress can use the Constitution's Commerce Clause to fight discrimination.
• 1971 – Over 200 of East Pakistan's (now Bangladesh) intellectuals are massacred by the Pakistan Army and their local allies.
• 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 the Apollo 17 mission.
• 1981 – Arab–Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset passes The Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the area of the Golan Heights.
• 1983 – The third Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
• 1988 – The ET3 television network is launched in Thessaloniki, Greece.
• 1992 – War in Abkhazia: During the Siege of Tkvarcheli, a helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli, Abkhazia, Georgia is shot down, resulting in at least 52 deaths, 25 of which are children. The incident catalyses more concerted Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia.
• 1992 – 2 people were killed and 4 people wounded in a school shooting at Bard College at Simon's Rock.
• 1994 – Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River.
• 1995 – Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris, France by leaders of various governments.
• 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.
• 2003 – The President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
• 2004 – The Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, near Millau, France is officially opened.
• 2004 – Cuba and Venezuela found the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas.
• 2006 – American spy satellite USA-193 is launched.
• 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.
• 2012 – 28 people, including the gunman, were killed in a mass shooting in Sandy Hook village, Newtown, Connecticut.
• 2012 – 24 people are injured in a knife attack at a primary school in the Chinese province of Henan.

Births

• 1009 – Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045)
• 1503 – Nostradamus, French astrologer (d. 1566)
• 1546 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and chemist (d. 1601)
• 1607 – János Kemény, Hungarian prince (d. 1662)
• 1625 – Barthélemy d'Herbelot, French orientalist (d. 1695)
• 1631 – Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679)
• 1640 – Aphra Behn, English playwright and author (d. 1689)
• 1678 – Daniel Neal, English historian (d. 1743)
• 1720 – Justus Möser, German jurist and theorist (d. 1794)
• 1730 – Capel Bond, English organist and composer (d. 1790)
• 1738 – Jan Antonín Koželuh, Bohemian composer (d. 1814)
• 1775 – Philander Chase, American bishop and educator, founded Kenyon College (d. 1852)
• 1775 – Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Scottish admiral (d. 1860)
• 1784 – Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily (d. 1806)
• 1787 – Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este (d. 1816)
• 1791 – Charles Wolfe, Irish poet (d. 1823)
• 1794 – Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (d. 1872)
• 1824 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)
• 1852 – Daniel De Leon, American journalist, politician, and theoretician, developed De Leonism (d. 1914)
• 1853 – Errico Malatesta, Italian activist (d. 1932)
• 1866 – Roger Fry, English painter and critic (d. 1934)
• 1870 – Karl Renner, Austrian politician, 4th President of Austria (d. 1950)
• 1881 – Katherine MacDonald, American actress and producer (d. 1956)
• 1881 – Howard Valentine, American sprinter (d. 1932)
• 1883 – Manolis Kalomiris, Greek composer (d. 1962)
• 1883 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist, founded aikido (d. 1969)
• 1884 – Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright (d. 1950)
• 1887 – Xul Solar, Argentine painter and sculptor (d. 1963)
• 1895 – George VI, of England (d. 1952)
• 1895 – Paul Eluard, French poet (d. 1952)
• 1896 – Jimmy Doolittle, American general (d. 1993)
• 1897 – Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician, 15th Federal Chancellor of Austria (d. 1977)
• 1897 – Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (d. 1995)
• 1901 – Paul of Greece (d. 1964)
• 1902 – Frances Bavier, American actress (d. 1989)
• 1908 – Morey Amsterdam, American comedian and actor (d. 1996)
• 1908 – Claude Davey, Welsh rugby player (d. 2001)
• 1908 – Mária Szepes, Hungarian author (d. 2007)
• 1909 – Edward Tatum, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
• 1911 – Spike Jones, American singer and bandleader (d. 1965)
• 1911 – Hans von Ohain, German-American engineer (d. 1998)
• 1913 – Dan Dailey, American actor (d. 1978)
• 1914 – Karl Carstens, German politician, 5th President of the Federal Republic of Germany (d. 1992)
• 1914 – Attila Petschauer, Hungarian fencer (d. 1943)
• 1914 – Nam Phuong, Vietnamese wife of Bao Dai (d. 1963)
• 1914 – Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (d. 2003)
• 1916 – Shirley Jackson, American author (d. 1965)
• 1917 – C.-H. Hermansson, Swedish politician and author
• 1917 – Elyse Knox, American actress and fashion designer (d. 2012)
• 1917 – June Taylor, American choreographer (d. 2004)
• 1918 – James Thomas Aubrey, Jr., American businessman (d. 1994)
• 1918 – Radu Beligan, Romanian actor
• 1918 – B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga instructor and author, founded Iyengar Yoga
• 1920 – Clark Terry, American trumpet player
• 1922 – Nikolay Basov, Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001)
• 1922 – Don Hewitt, American television producer, created 60 Minutes (d. 2009)
• 1922 – Junior J. Spurrier, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1984)
• 1923 – Gerard Reve, Dutch author (d. 2006)
• 1924 – Raj Kapoor, Indian actor (d. 1988)
• 1925 – Sam Jones, American baseball player (d. 1971)
• 1927 – Richard Cassilly, American tenor (d. 1998)
• 1927 – Koos Rietkerk, Dutch politician (d. 1986)
• 1931 – Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet, and philosopher (d. 2002)
• 1931 – Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgussaar, Estonian director
• 1932 – Abbe Lane, American singer and actress
• 1932 – Charlie Rich, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1995)
• 1934 – Shyam Benegal, Indian director and screenwriter
• 1935 – Lewis Arquette, American actor, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2001)
• 1935 – Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991)
• 1938 – Leonardo Boff, Brazilian theologian and author
• 1938 – Hal Williams, American actor
• 1939 – Ernie Davis, American football player (d. 1963)
• 1940 – Lex Gold, Scottish footballer and administrator
• 1941 – Karan Armstrong, American soprano
• 1941 – Ellen Willis, American journalist (d. 2006)
• 1943 – Emmett Tyrrell, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded The American Spectator
• 1946 – Jane Birkin, English-French actress and singer
• 1946 – Patty Duke, American actress
• 1946 – Ruth Fuchs, German javelin thrower and politician
• 1946 – Michael Ovitz, American talent agent, co-founded Creative Artists Agency
• 1946 – Stan Smith, American tennis player
• 1946 – Joyce Vincent Wilson, American singer (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
• 1947 – Christopher Parkening, American guitarist
• 1947 – Dilma Rousseff, Brazilian politician, 36th President of Brazil
• 1947 – Linda Sutton, English painter
• 1948 – Kim Beazley, Australian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
• 1948 – Boudewijn Büch, Dutch poet and television host (d. 2002)
• 1948 – Dee Wallace, American actress
• 1949 – Bill Buckner, American baseball player
• 1949 – Cliff Williams, English bass player and singer (AC/DC Home, and Bandit)
• 1951 – Jan Timman, Dutch chess player
• 1951 – Paul Zaloom, American actor and puppeteer
• 1952 – Germain Houde, Canadian actor
• 1952 – John Lurie, American actor, saxophonist, painter, director, and producer (The Lounge Lizards)
• 1953 – Vijay Amritraj, Indian tennis player
• 1953 – Wade Davis, Canadian anthropologist, author, and photographer
• 1953 – René Eespere, Soviet-Estonian composer
• 1953 – Vangelis Meimarakis, Greek lawyer and politician, Minister for National Defence
• 1953 – Mikael Odenberg, Swedish politician, Minister for Defence
• 1954 – James Horan, American actor
• 1954 – Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (d. 1993)
• 1954 – Steven MacLean, Canadian astronaut
• 1956 – Linda Fabiani, Scottish politician
• 1956 – Hanni Wenzel, German skier
• 1958 – Mike Scott, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Waterboys)
• 1958 – Spider Stacy, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Pogues)
• 1958 – François Zocchetto, French politician
• 1959 – Bob Paris, American-Canadian bodybuilder and actor
• 1959 – Jorge Vaca, Mexican boxer
• 1960 – Don Franklin, American actor
• 1960 – Chris Waddle, English footballer
• 1961 – Patrik Sundstrom, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1962 – Ginger Lynn, American model and actress
• 1963 – Greg Abbott, English footballer and manager
• 1963 – Cynthia Gibb, American actress
• 1963 – Vytautas Juozapaitis, Lithuanian opera singer
• 1963 – Michael Moloney, American interior designer
• 1963 – Alice Ripley American actress
• 1963 – Mario Yamasaki, Brazilian-American mixed martial arts referee
• 1964 – Rebecca Gibney, Australian actress
• 1965 – Craig Biggio, American baseball player
• 1965 – Ken Hill, American baseball player
• 1965 – Ted Raimi, American actor
• 1966 – Fabrizio Giovanardi, Italian race car driver
• 1966 – Anthony Mason, American basketball player
• 1966 – Bill Ranford, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1966 – Tim Sköld, Swedish bass player (Shotgun Messiah, Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult, MDFMK, KMFDM, and ohGr)
• 1967 – Ewa Białołęcka, Polish author
• 1968 – Noelle Beck, American actress
• 1969 – Scott Hatteberg, American baseball player
• 1969 – Archie Kao, American actor
• 1969 – Natascha McElhone, English actress
• 1969 – Arthur Numan, Dutch footballer
• 1970 – Nadine Garner, Australian actress
• 1970 – Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1970 – Beth Orton, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1971 – Brian Gay, American golfer
• 1971 – Tia Texada, American actress and singer
• 1971 – Michaela Watkins, American actress
• 1972 – Eric Anderson, American actor
• 1972 – Miranda Hart, English comedian and actress
• 1972 – Marcus Jensen, American baseball player
• 1973 – Pat Burke, Irish basketball player
• 1973 – Tomasz Radzinski, Polish-Canadian soccer player
• 1973 – Thuy Trang, Vietnamese-American actress (d. 2001)
• 1974 – Billy Koch, American baseball player
• 1975 – Justin Furstenfeld, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Blue October and The Last Wish)
• 1975 – KaDee Strickland, American actress
• 1976 – Tammy Blanchard, American actress
• 1976 – Leland Chapman, American bounty hunter
• 1976 – Sebastien Chaule, French-German rugby player
• 1976 – André Couto, Portuguese race car driver
• 1976 – Santiago Ezquerro, Spanish footballer
• 1977 – Brain Damage, American wrestler (d. 2012)
• 1977 – Jamie Peacock, English rugby player
• 1978 – Dean Brogan, Australian footballer
• 1978 – Zdeněk Pospěch, Czech footballer
• 1978 – Patty Schnyder, Swiss tennis player
• 1978 – Radu Sîrbu, Moldovan singer and producer (O-Zone)
• 1978 – Kim St-Pierre, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 – Jean-Alain Boumsong, French footballer
• 1979 – Michael Owen, English footballer
• 1979 – Sophie Monk, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (Bardot)
• 1980 – Gordon Greer, Scottish footballer
• 1980 – Tata Young, Thai singer and actress
• 1980 – Didier Zokora, Ivorian footballer
• 1981 – Amber Chia, Malaysian model and actress
• 1981 – Émilie Heymans, Canadian diver
• 1981 – Johnny Jeter, American professional wrestler
• 1981 – Shaun Marcum, American baseball player
• 1982 – Josh Fields, American baseball player
• 1982 – Steve Sidwell, English footballer
• 1982 – Anthony Way, English singer and actor
• 1984 – Chris Brunt, Irish footballer
• 1984 – Rana Daggubati, Indian actor and producer
• 1984 – Krissy Lynn, American porn actress
• 1984 – Ed Rainsford, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1984 – Jackson Rathbone, Singaporean-American actor and singer (100 Monkeys)
• 1985 – Jakub Błaszczykowski, Polish footballer
• 1985 – Julio Pimentel, Dominican baseball player
• 1985 – Paul Rabil, American lacrosse player
• 1985 – Tom Smith, English-Welsh rugby player
• 1985 – Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress and singer
• 1986 – Jang Jae Ho, South Korean gamer
• 1987 – Kenneth Medwood, American-Belizean hurdler
• 1988 – Nicolas Batum, French basketball player
• 1988 – Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer
• 1988 – Hayato Sakamoto, Japanese baseball player
• 1989 – Onew, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (Shinee)
• 1989 – Pedro Roberto Silva Botelho, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 – Ryo Miyaichi, Japanese footballer
• 1994 – Joshua Dionisio, Filipino actor

Deaths

• 1460 – Guarino da Verona, Italian scholar (b. 1370)
• 1510 – Friedrich of Saxony, Teutonic Knight (b. 1473)
• 1542 – James V of Scotland (b. 1512)
• 1553 – Hanibal Lucić, Croatian poet and playwright (b. 1485)
• 1591 – John of the Cross, Spanish priest and saint (b. 1542)
• 1624 – Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English politician (b. 1536)
• 1651 – Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582)
• 1713 – Thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641)
• 1715 – Thomas Tenison, English archbishop (b. 1636)
• 1735 – Thomas Tanner, English bishop (b. 1674)
• 1741 – Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661)
• 1788 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (b. 1714)
• 1788 – Charles III of Spain (b. 1716)
• 1799 – George Washington, American general and politician, 1st President of the United States (b. 1732)
• 1831 – Martin Baum, American businessman and politician (b. 1765)
• 1838 – Jean-Olivier Chénier, Canadian physician (b. 1806)
• 1860 – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
• 1861 – Albert, Prince Consort, German husband of Queen Victoria (b. 1819)
• 1865 – Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (b. 1794)
• 1873 – Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American zoologist and geologist (b. 1807)
• 1878 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (b. 1843)
• 1902 – Julia Grant, American wife of Ulysses S. Grant, 19th First Lady of the United States (b. 1826)
• 1912 – Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1887)
• 1920 – George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895)
• 1927 – Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (b. 1842)
• 1935 – Stanley G. Weinbaum, American author (b. 1902)
• 1937 – Fabian de la Rosa, Filipino painter (b. 1869)
• 1940 – Anton Korošec, Slovenian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1872)
• 1943 – John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon and businessman, co-created Corn flakes (b. 1852)
• 1947 – Stanley Baldwin, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
• 1947 – Edward Higgins, English-American 3rd General of the Salvation Army (b. 1864)
• 1953 – Marjorie Rawlings, American author (b. 1896)
• 1954 – Emil Rausch, German swimmer (b. 1883)
• 1956 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish politician, 7th President of Finland (b. 1870)
• 1957 – Fred Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1872)
• 1963 – Otto Fickeisen, German rower (b. 1879)
• 1963 – Dinah Washington, American singer (b. 1924)
• 1964 – William Bendix, American actor (b. 1906)
• 1966 – Shailendra, Indian songwriter (b. 1923)
• 1970 – Franz Schlegelberger, German politician (b. 1876)
• 1971 – Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (b. 1929)
• 1974 – Walter Lippmann, American journalist (b. 1889)
• 1975 – Arthur Treacher, English actor (b. 1894)
• 1978 – Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat and historian (b. 1886)
• 1980 – Elston Howard, American baseball player (b. 1929)
• 1984 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1985 – Catherine Doherty, Russian-Canadian activist, founded the Madonna House Apostolate (b. 1896)
• 1985 – Roger Maris, American baseball player (b. 1934)
• 1989 – Jock Mahoney, American actor and stuntman (b. 1919)
• 1989 – Andrei D. Sakharov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
• 1990 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss author and playwright (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Jeff Alm, American football player (b. 1968)
• 1993 – Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1994 – Orval Faubus, American politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1910)
• 1996 – Gaston Miron, Canadian poet (b. 1928)
• 1997 – Stubby Kaye, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1997 – Kurt Winter, Canadian guitarist and songwriter (The Guess Who) (b. 1946)
• 1998 – Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1998 – A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., American judge, activist, and author (b. 1928)
• 1998 – Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician, Mayor of Dallas (b. 1924)
• 1999 – Gré Brouwenstijn, Dutch opera singer (b. 1915)
• 2001 – W. G. Sebald, German academic and author (b. 1944)
• 2003 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Blas Ople, Filipino journalist and politician, 21st President of the Senate of the Philippines (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Frank Sheeran, American labor union official (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (b. 1934)
• 2004 – Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino actor and politician (b. 1939)
• 2005 – Trevanian, American author and scholar (b. 1931)
• 2006 – Anton Balasingham, Sri Lankan strategist and negotiator (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Ahmet Ertegun, Turkish-American composer and producer, founded Atlantic Records (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Mike Evans, American actor (b. 1949)
• 2009 – Alan A'Court, English footballer (b. 1934)
• 2010 – Timothy Davlin, American politician, Mayor of Springfield, Illinois (b. 1957)
• 2010 – Neva Patterson, American actress (b. 1920)
• 2010 – Dale Roberts, English footballer (b. 1986)
• 2011 – Joe Simon, American writer and illustrator (b. 1913)
• 2011 – Billie Jo Spears, American singer (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Donnie Andrews, American criminal (b. 1954)
• 2012 – Alida Chelli, Italian actress and singer (b. 1943)
• 2012 – John Graham, Welsh general (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Klaus Köste, German gymnast (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Edward Jones, American politician (b. 1950)
• 2012 – Kenneth Kendall, Indian-English journalist (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Hazel McIsaac, Canadian politician (b. 1933)

Holidays and observances

• Alabama Day (Alabama)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • John of the Cross
  • Spyridon (Western Church)
• Day of the Martyred Intellectuals (Bangladesh)
• Monkey Day

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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