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| December 14th |
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| About December 14th is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 17 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. December 14th is Alabama Day in celebration of their admission to the Union. Births 1895 - George VI, King of the U.K. & the British Dominions 1908 - Morey Amsterdam, comedian, actor (The Dick Van Dyke Show) 1922 - Don Hewitt, creator of 60 Minutes 1979 - Sophie Monk, actress, singer, model (Click) 1980 - Tata Young, actress, singer (I Believe) 1988 - Vanessa Hudgens, actress, singer (High School Musical) 1992 - Tori Kelly, singer (America's Most Talented Kids) Deaths 1799 - George Washington, first U.S. President 1922 - Charley Trippi, Hall of Fame quarterback, running back 1943 - John Harvey Kellogg, invented corn flakes cereal 1985 - Roger Maris, baseball player, held single-season home run record 2006 - Mike Evans, actor (All in the Family, The Jeffersons) 2006 - Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic Records Events 1819 - Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state. 1911 - Norwegian Roald Amundsen became the first explorer to reach the South Pole. 1947 - NASCAR is founded in Daytona Beach, Florida. 1962 - NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus, coming within 22,000 miles. 1972 - Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan becomes the last man to walk on the moon in the 20th century. 1977 - Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta premieres in New York City. 1999 - Charles M. Schulz announces that he is going to retire from the "Peanuts" comic strip. 2008 - During his fourth and final Iraq trip, U.S. President George W. Bush nearly got struck by shoes when an Iraqi journalist tossed them at him during a press conference. |
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