Historical Events In December - 14
Tuesday, 07 July 2020
1977 On December - 14 egypt and Israel reps gather in Cairo for first formal peace conference
1979 On December - 14 nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, cricketer (2 Tests for India, avg 205), dies
1980 On this day in history at 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon
1980 On this day in history elston Howard, MVP catcher (NY Yankees), dies at 59
1981 Israel annexes Golan Heights on December - 14.
1985 On this day in history nY Yankees great Roger Maris dies of cancer at age 51.
1985 Roger Maris, HR hitter (61 in 61, NY Yankees), dies of cancer at 51 on this day in history.
1986 The experimental aircraft Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, takes flight from Edwards Air Force Base (CA) on the first non-stop, self-contained (i.e., no aerial refueling) flight around the world on this day in history.
1987 In the worst attack on merchant shipping in the 'Gulf War', 21 crewmen from a Norwegian tanker are killed on this day in history.
1987 Paul Clinton Sundberg, actor (Belle of NY, Easter Parade), dies on December - 14.
1988 Spanish general strike to protest austerity measures on this day in history.
1988 On this day in history uS agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs)
1989 On December - 14 andrei D. Sakharov, author and Nobel laureate, dies in Moscow at age 68.
1989 On December - 14 movie actor Jock Mahoney (Dallas, Tarzan) dies at age 70.
1989 Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist/dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68 on December - 14.
1990 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later on this day in history.
1990 On this day in history f Dörrenmatt, writer, dies at 69
1991 476 die when the ferry boat Salem Express sinks in the Red Sea on this day in history.
1991 On this day in history desmond Howard of Michigan wins the Heisman trophy
1991 John Arlott, cricketer (the greatest of cricket commentators), dies on December - 14.
1993 Actress Myrna Loy dies at age 88 on December - 14.
1993 On December - 14 myrna Loy, [Williams], US actress (Jazz Singer), dies at 88
1994 On December - 14 mary Ann McCall, singer, dies at 75
1995 On December - 14 after sixty-nine grueling days on the picket line, machinists for the Boeing Company gave the go-ahead to a new contract on this day in 1995
1995 Don Anthony, bandleader/songwriter, dies at 85 on this day in history.
1996 Alan Hargreaves, climber, dies at 92 on December - 14.
1997 Owen Barfield, philosopher of language, dies at 99 on this day in history.
1998 IXC Communications announced it had turned on a new coast-to-coast data network that it hoped would serve as the backbone for the next generation Internet on December - 14.
2007 On December - 14 fAI World Grand Prix Gliding Championship at Omarama, New Zealand.
2012 28 people, including 20 children, are shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on this day in history.
2014 Shinzō Abe and his ruling Liberal Democratic Party win re-election in Japan, retaining their two-thirds majority with coalition partner New Kōmeitō Party on December - 14.
2017 The Vatican announces it has rediscovered the lost last paintings of Raphael in Vatican Museum, painted 1520 on this day in history.
2017 On December - 14 the Walt Disney Company buys most of 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion
2017 On December - 14 uS media regulator the Federal Communications Commission votes to end net neutrality