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Notable anniversaries in history for today: December 14
- 900th: 1124 - Theobald Buccapecus elected Pope Coelestinus II (he refuses).
- 250th: 1774 - Massachusetts militiamen successfully attacked arsenal of Fort William and Mary.
- 200th: 1824 - Birth of Pierre C Puvis de Chavannes; French painter (Panthéon).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Marion Morgan; singer ("Stop the Music").
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Siiri Rantanen in Finland; cross country skier (Olympics-gold-1956).
- 100th: 1924 - Chiang Kai-shek occupies Hankou, China.
- 90th: 1934 - First streamlined steam locomotive introduced (Albany, New York).
- 80th: 1944 - US Congress establishes rank of General of the Army (five-star General).
- 80th: 1944 - German occupiers forbid use of electricity in parts of Holland.
- 80th: 1944 - A US government report "Reports on the Atom-splitting Bomb" includes a decoded message intercept from Japanese embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, to headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, noting that the "atom-splitting bomb" was first used by the German Army in 1943 against the 19th Infantry Regiment of Russians, 150km southeast of Kursk, a few 5kg bombs wiped them out, and were also previously used versus Russians in the Crimea.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Alan Kulwicki in Greenfield, Wisconsin, USA; NASCAR racer (Winston Cup).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Eva Mattes in Tegernsee, Germany; actress (Celeste, Man Like Eva).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Hans William Schlegel in Oberlingen, Germany; astronaut (STS 55).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of James Horean; actor (Loving).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Steven Glenwood MacLean in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; astronaut (STS 52).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of C[arl] J[eff] Snare in Washington DC; vocalist (Firehouse - "Love of a Lifetime").
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Chelsea Noble; actress (Kate - Growing Pains).
- 60th: 1964 - Death of William Bendix at age 58 of lobar pneumonia in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Chester A. Riley - Life of Riley radio and TV shows).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Billy Koch in Garden City, New York, USA; baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-1996).
- 50th: 1974 - New York Islanders' Glenn Resch's first shut-out opponent-Los Angeles Kings 3-0.
- 50th: 1974 - Viv Richards scores first Test Cricket ton 192 versus India 20 fours 6 sixes.
- 50th: 1974 - Walter Lippmann, US journalist (One of Dynasty), dies at age 85.
- 40th: 1984 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet (Historia del corazón), Nobel Prize winner, dies at age 86 (born 1898).
- 40th: 1984 - Sports announcer Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football.
- 30th: 1994 - Petrus van Doorne, bus manufacturer/owner (BOVA), dies at age 58.
- 30th: 1994 - A Learjet piloted by Richard Anderson and Brad Sexton misses an elementary school and crashes into an apartment complex in Fresno, California, killing both pilots and injuring several apartment residents.
- 25th: 1999 - Algerian Ahmed Ressam is arrested while crossing the United States-Canada border at Port Angeles, Washington, when United States Customs finds explosives in the trunk of his automobile. The arrest causes fears of a terrorist attack in the United States, and is a major factor in the cancellation of a public New Year's celebration in Seattle, Washington. Ressam is later convicted in a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve.
- 20th: 2004 - The world's tallest bridge, the Millau bridge over the River Tarn in the Massif Central mountains, France, is opened by President Jacques Chirac.
- 20th: 2004 - A Kuwaiti tanker collides with a dredger in the Suez Canal, dumping about 8.3 million litres of crude oil.
- 15th: 2009 - Exxon Mobil announces it will acquire natural gas supplier XTO Energy Inc in an all-stock transaction valued at about US$30 billion.
- 15th: 2009 - NASA launches the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer satellite on a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The satellite is designed to uncover hidden cosmic objects.
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