Top Historical Events That Happened on December 14
Tuesday, 04 August 2026
1866 Roger Fry, English painter and critic is born 

1868 Richard Batka, composer 

1870 Dirk J de Geer, Dutch premier (1926-29, 39-40). 

1873 Marie-Alphonse-Nicolas-Joseph Jongen, composer. 

1873 J Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist), dies. 

1875 Dobri Khristov, composer 

1877 Lieven Duvosel, Flemish music writer/composer (Leiecyclys) 

1882 Henry Morton Stanley returns to Brussels from the Congo 

1883 Manolis Kalomiris, Greek opera composer. 

1884 Regina Ullmann, writer 

1886 Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer, dies at 27. 

1889 American Academy of Political and Social Science organized, Philadelphia 

1889 American Academy of Political and Social Science organized, Phila 

1893 Karolina Pawlowa, writer, dies at 86 

1894 Day One 1st Test Cricket Aus v Eng Aust 5-346 (Giffen 161, Gregory 85). 

1894 Joaquin Zamacois Soler, composer. 

1895 George VI, king of England (1936-52). 

1896 James Doolittle aviator U.S. Army Air Force Lt. General awarded Congressional Medal of Honor for leading 1st U.S. aerial raid against Japan in WWII was born 

1896 The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company. 

1896 James H Doolittle, USAF General (Raid on Tokyo 1942) 

1897 Margaret Chase Smith, (Rep/Sen-R-Maine) 

1898 Frederick Douglass Hall, composer. 

1900 Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law 

1900 Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov, composer. 

1900 Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at 46. 

1901 1st table tennis tournament is held (London Royal Aquarium). 

1901 Henri Cochet, tennis champ (US Open-1928) 

1902 Frances Beauvier, actress (Aunt Bea-Andy Griffith Show). 

1903 Reg Foster completes 287 England v Australia on Test Cricket debut. 

1903 William Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair 

1905 Sydney Lipton, bandleader/violin. 

1906 Helmut Bornefeld, composer 

1906 John A C Oudemans, Dutch geographer/astronomer, dies at 78. 

1907 The schooner Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Scilly Isles in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die. 

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