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December 14 is the 348th (three hundred and forty-eighth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 349th in leap years. There are 78 days left till the end of the year.
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Events
2000: The Council of Ministers of the ACP (African, Caribbean, and the Pacific States) admits Cuba as member 78.
2003: Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf escapes an assassination attempt.
2004: In France, President Jacques Chirac inaugurates the world’s tallest bridge, the Millau Viaduct, built 343 meters high, in the Millau region.
2006: The Che Guevara football club is founded in the city of Córdoba (Argentina).
2008: The Mexican pop group RBD gives its last concert in Chile, precisely one week before its show in Madrid, which would be the group’s last.
2008: In Baghdad ( Iraq ), the Iraqi journalist Muntazer al Zaidi throws his two shoes against George W. Bush ( President of the US ) on his fourth and last trip to Iraq.
2010: in Havana (Cuba), the Government launches the online encyclopedia EcuRed, with wiki code.
2011: in Chile, the University of Chile becomes champion of the Copa Sudamericana by beating Liga de Quito 3-0.
2012: A massacre occurs in an elementary school in the US town of Newtown (Connecticut), leaving 28 dead, including 20 children.
2013: China becomes the third country in the world to land on the moon . 2
2017: In Andorra ( Teruel ), Norbert Feher kills Jose Luis Iranzo, rancher and grandson of Jose Iranzo Bielsa, Pastor of Andorra, and two more civil guards; the town decrees three days of mourning.
2020: the last total solar eclipse of the year occurred, called ‘ The eclipse of the century, ‘which completely obscured much of the Patagonia of Argentina and Chile, and was partially seen in the rest of the mentioned countries, in addition to others, such as Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Brazil. This event will only happen again in the year 2048.
2022: 10 years since the Sandy Hook Massacre.
Births
1971 – Natascha McElhone, British actress
1973 – Thuy Trang, American actress (d. 2001)
1976 – Santi Ezquerro , Spanish footballer.
1977 – Marvin Lambert, Professional wrestler (d. 2012).
1977 – Romain Dumas, French racing driver
1978 – Radu Sarbu, Moldovan vocalist from the band O-Zone.
1978 – Patty Schnyder, a Swiss tennis player
1979 – Jean-Alain Boumsong, French footballer
1979 – Swan Fyahbwoy, Spanish singer
1980 – Tata Young, Thai singer
1980 – Didier Zokora , Ivorian footballer
1982 – Steve Sidwell, British footballer
1983 – Stephanie Frappart, French referee.
1984 – Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer
1984 – Molly Nilsson, Swedish synth-pop artist
1985 – Jakub Błaszczykowski , Polish footballer
1987 – Alex Gaskarth, American singer from the band All Time Low.
1987 – Ana Maria Polvorosa , Spanish actress.
1988 – Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer
1988 – Nicolas Batum, French basketball player
1989 – Onew, South Korean singer and leader of the group SHINee.
1991 – Offset, American rapper
1991 – Mitsuki Takahata , Japanese actress and singer
1992 – Tori Kelly, American singer-songwriter
1992 – Claudia Traisac, Spanish actress.
1993 – Antonio Giovinazzi, Italian racing driver.
Deaths
1990 – Friedrich Durrenmatt , Swiss writer (b. 1921)
1990 – Francisco Gabilondo Soler , Mexican composer (b. 1907).
1993 – Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
1993 – Silvina Ocampo , Argentine writer (b. 1903).
1995 – Eduardo Simian , Chilean footballer, engineer, and politician (b. 1915).
1997 – Stubby Kaye, American actor (b. 1918)
1998 – Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)
1998 – Vittorio Cottafavi , Italian filmmaker (b. 1914)
2001 – Conte Candoli, American trumpeter (b. 1923)
2001 – Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and geographer (b. 1897)
2001 – W.G. Sebald, German writer (b. 1944)
2003 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925)
2004 – Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino presidential candidate and actor (b. 1939).
2005 – Trevanian, American writer (b. 1931)
2006 – Ahmed Ertegun, record entrepreneur and co-founder of Atlantic Records (b. 1923).
2008 – Ramón Barce, Spanish composer and philosopher (b. 1928).
2010 – Neal C. Wilson, the American pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1920).
2011 – Joe Simon, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
2013 – Peter O’Toole, Irish actor (b. 1932).
2016 – Jean-Paul Pier, Luxembourgish mathematician (b. 1933)
2017 – R. C. Sproul, American Presbyterian pastor and theologian (b. 1939).
2019 – Anna Karina, Danish actress and singer (b. 1940).
2020 – Alfredo Hoyos Mazuera was a Colombian businessman recognized as the founder of the Frisby restaurant chain. (b. 1946).
2021 – Riccardo Ehrman , Italian journalist (b. 1929).
Celebrations
International Day of Radio and Television for Children
International Monkey Day
United States flag United States: Alabama Day
Japan: 47 ronin Commemoration Day
Bangladesh: Day of Martyred Intellectuals
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