Monday, December 14, 2020. 349th day of the year. There are 17 days left until the end of the year.
? HISTORICAL EVENTS?
● 557 - Constantinople is badly damaged by an earthquake.
● 835 - Sweet Dew Event: Emperor Wenzong of the Tang Dynasty conspired to assassinate the powerful servants of the Tang Palace, but the conspiracy was thwarted.
● 1287 - Flood of St. Lucia: The wall of the Zuiderzee Sea in the Netherlands collapses, killing more than 50 people.
● 1542 - Queen Mary Stewart becomes Queen of Scotland a week after the death of her father, James V.
● 1650 - Anne Greene is hanged at Oxford Castle in England for killing a child while concealing an illegal stillbirth. The next day he was reinstated in the dissection room and pardoned and lived until 1659.
● 1751 - Theresa Military Academy is founded in Wiener Neustadt, Austria.
● 1780 - Alexander Hamilton, the founding father, marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York.
● 1782 - The Montgolf brothers fly the first unmanned balloon in France; it swims about 2 km (1,2 miles).
● 1812 - French invasion of Russia ends as the remains of Grande Armen are expelled from Russia.
● 1814 - War of 1812: The Royal Navy takes control of Lake Borgne in Louisiana.
● 1819 - Alabama becomes the 22nd state in the United States.
● 1836 - The Toledo War ends unofficially.
● 1863 - American Civil War: A Confederate victory led by General James Longstreet at the Battle of Bean Station in East Tennessee ends the Knoxville campaign, but Longstreet returns with little success next spring.
● 1896 - Opening of the Glasgow Underground Railway by the Glasgow District Metro Company.
● 1900 - Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents the theoretical origin of his law of black-body radiation.
● 1902 - Commercial Pacific Cable Company passes the first Pacific telegraph cable from San Francisco to Honolulu.
● 1903 - The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
● 1907 - Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ship without a heat engine, landed near the Hellweather Reef in the Sill Islands and ran its founders. The pilot and 15 sailors were killed.
● 1909 - New South Wales Prime Minister Charles Wade signs the government's surrender Act (1909), formally completing the transfer of state lands to the Commonwealth to create the Australian capital.
● 1911 - Roald Amundsen's team includes Olav Byaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel and Oscar Visting. He was the first to reach the South Pole.
● 1913 - Haruna, the fourth and last Congolese-class ship, became one of Japan’s working horses during World War I and World War II.
● 1918 - The 1918 United Kingdom general election was held, with women being the first to be allowed to vote.
● 1955 - Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain are represented in UN Security Council Resolution 109. they shouted.
● 1964 - American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. U.S.: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Congress could use the Constitution’s trade clause to combat discrimination.
● 1971 - War of Liberation of Bangladesh: More than 200 East Pakistani intellectuals were executed by the Pakistani army and their local allies. (This date is celebrated as the Day of the Intellectuals who were martyred in Bangladesh).
● 1972 - Apollo Program: Eugene Cernan, he and Harrison Schmitt, the last man to walk on the moon after completing the third and final extravecular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.
● 1981 - Arab-Israeli conflict: The Israeli Knesset ratifies the Golan Heights Act and extends Israeli law to the occupied Golan Heights.
● 1985 - Wilma Mankiller becomes the first woman to be elected leader of the Cherokee Nation.
● 1999 - Torrential rains cause floods in the Venezuelan city of Vargas, killing tens of thousands of people, destroying thousands of homes and completely destroying state infrastructure.
● 2003 - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf barely escapes assassination.
● 2004 - Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, is officially opened near Milau, France.
● 2008 - Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoe at the then U.S.. President George W. Bush at a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq.
● 2012 - Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School: 28 people were killed along with a gunman in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
● 2013 - A coup attempt in South Sudan results in ongoing fighting and hundreds of casualties.
● 2017 - Walt Disney announces acquisition of 21st Century Focus, including 20th Century Fox, for $ 52,4 billion.
