Page 7: Historical Events In December - 14

1977  On this day in history egypt and Israel reps gather in Cairo for first formal peace conference   

1979  Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, cricketer (2 Tests for India, avg 205), dies on this day in history.   

1980  At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon on this day in history.   

1980  Elston Howard, MVP catcher (NY Yankees), dies at 59 on December - 14.   

1981  Israel annexes Golan Heights on this day in history.   

1985  On December - 14 nY Yankees great Roger Maris dies of cancer at age 51.   

1985  On December - 14 roger Maris, HR hitter (61 in 61, NY Yankees), dies of cancer at 51   

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  On December - 14 in the worst attack on merchant shipping in the 'Gulf War', 21 crewmen from a Norwegian tanker are killed   

1987  On this day in history paul Clinton Sundberg, actor (Belle of NY, Easter Parade), dies   

1988  Spanish general strike to protest austerity measures on December - 14.   

1988  On December - 14 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 this day in history movie actor Jock Mahoney (Dallas, Tarzan) dies at age 70.   

1989  On December - 14 andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist/dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68   

1990  Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later on December - 14.   

1990  F Dörrenmatt, writer, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1991  476 die when the ferry boat Salem Express sinks in the Red Sea on December - 14.   

1991  On December - 14 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 this day in history.   

1993  Myrna Loy, [Williams], US actress (Jazz Singer), dies at 88 on December - 14.   

1994  Mary Ann McCall, singer, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1995  On this day in history 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  On this day in history alan Hargreaves, climber, dies at 92   

1997  On December - 14 owen Barfield, philosopher of language, dies at 99   

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  FAI World Grand Prix Gliding Championship at Omarama, New Zealand on this day in history.   

2012  On December - 14 28 people, including 20 children, are shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut   

2014  On December - 14 shinzō Abe and his ruling Liberal Democratic Party win re-election in Japan, retaining their two-thirds majority with coalition partner New Kōmeitō Party   

2017  The Vatican announces it has rediscovered the lost last paintings of Raphael in Vatican Museum, painted 1520 on December - 14.   

2017  On December - 14 the Walt Disney Company buys most of 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion   

2017  US media regulator the Federal Communications Commission votes to end net neutrality on December - 14.   

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1009  Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045) was born on December - 14.   

1363  John Van [Jean C] Gerson, French theologist was born on this day in history.   

1503  On this day in history birth of nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist/prophet   

1546  Tycho Brahe, Knudstrup Denmark, astronomer (Golden nose) was born on this day in history.   

1553  On this day in history birth of henri IV the Bourbon, king of Navarra (Henri III)/France   

1625  On this day in history birth of barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695)   

1631  Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679) was born on December - 14.   

1640  On December - 14 birth of (baptism date)   

0872  On December - 14 adrian II, Italian Pope (867-72)/last married pope, dies at about 80   

1077  On this day in history agnes of Poitou, German empress/wife of emperor Henry III, dies   

1136  On December - 14 death of harald IV, "Gylle Krist", king of Norway, murdered   

1417  On this day in history death of john Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged & burned   

1460  On December - 14 death of guarino da Verona (b. 1370)   

1476  On December - 14 death of vlad III the Impaler (b. 1431)   

1510  On December - 14 death of friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)   

1542  On December - 14 james, king of Scotland (1513-42), dies at 30