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14 December: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 14 December.
Year 1901
Gandhiji reaches Rajkot via Porbunder.
1903, 14th December: The Wright brothers tried the first flight attempt in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Year 1920
Akali Dal established.
Year 1931
Viceroy of India issues new powers to seize properties of those who, following independence leader Gandhi, refuse to pay taxes.
Year 1952
Roshan Harshadlal "Deepak" Shodhan scored 110 in his Test Cricket debut vs Pakistan in Calcutta.
1961, 14th December: Tanzania joined the United Nations.
Year 1969
Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) v Australia at Calcutta.
Year 1984
First MIG 27M aircraft assembled by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. takes off.
Year 1985
Rajiv Gandhi joins the leaders of Greece, Sweden, Tanzania, Mexico and Argentina in a tele-conference as part of the UN ceremony at which they are honoured with the 'Beyond War' award.
Year 1990
President's Rule imposed on Goa. Caretaker CM Dr. Barbosa disqualified from the membership of Assembly for defection from Congress (I) nine months ago.
Year 1990
Vijay Karan became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 01/06/92).
Year 1992
Balasaheb Deora, RSS chief, kept under house arrest. National head quarters of the party in New Delhi sealed.
Year 1994
10 IAF personnel of the first batch were reinducted and the last batch left on 20th Dec 94. Cpl Nasir was left as a lying casualty due to injuries sustained in the RPG explosion.
Year 1995
Leaders of Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia ended the three-and-a-half-year-long Balkan War by signing the Treaty of Dayton in Paris.
Year 1997
All countries in the world agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Year 1998
The Government introduces the controversial Women's Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha.
Year 1998
The Supreme Court allows Karnataka to begin skeletal work on erection of 26 crest gates at the Almatti dam on the Krishna at ''its own risk and cost'', but directs it not to raise the dam height beyond the present 509 metres.
Year 1999
India lost to Australia by 285 runs in Adelaide in the first cricket Test.
Year 1999
G.M.C. Balayogi, Lok Sabha speaker, presents a draft for over Rs. 32 lakhs to the Prime Minister for the Kargil Fund.
Year 1999
The Prime Minister informs the Lok Sabha that Ram Prakash Gupta has denied the remarks on temple construction.
Year 2000
The Government declares the 10-day old postal strike illegal as per the provisions of the Industrial Dispute Act.
2003, 14th December: Saddam Hussein, the ousted president of Iraq, was captured by the US military.
Year 2007
Rail service resumed after 50 years between North and South Korea.
Born 1503
Nostradamus, a French astrologer, physician, and reputed seer.
Born 1546
Tycho Brahe, a Danish nobleman, astronomer, and writer.
Born 1812
Lord Charles Caning, Governor General and Viceroy of India (1856-1862), was born.
Born 1864
Jagat Narayan, law expert and educationist, was born.
Born 1895
George VI, King of the United Kingdom.
Born 1910
Upendranath Ashok, noted writer, was born.
Born 1918
B.K.S. Iyengar, an Indian Yoga teacher.
Born 1924
Raj Kapoor, an Indian film actor, producer, and director.
Born 1931
Jaun Elia, an Indo-Pak Urdu poet, philosopher, biographer, and scholar.
Born 1934
Shyam Benegal, Indian director and screenwriter
Born 1936
Kamalkant Bhattacharya, Assamese thinker and author, passed away.
Born 1946
Sanjay Gandhi, an Indian politician and the son of Indira Gandhi.
Born 1953
Vijay Amritraj, an Indian sports commentator, occasional actor, and former tennis player from Madras.
Born 1962
Bharathi Arun, cricketer (Indian pace bowler late-80's), was born in Vijayawada.
Born 1984
Rana Daggubati, Indian actor and producer
Died 1542
James V, King of Scotland.
Died 1788
Charles III, King of Spain.
Died 1799
George Washington, an American political leader, military general, statesman, and founding father who served as the first president of the United States.
Died 1943
John Harvey Kellogg, an American medical doctor, nutritionist, inventor, health activist, eugenicist, and businessman.
Died 1947
Stanley Baldwin, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Died 1955
Henry Heras, famous artist and an active member of the Indian Historical Records Commission, died in Bombay.
Died 1966
Shailendra, a popular Indian Hindi-Urdu lyricist.
Died 1968
Chaggan Baba (Chagganlal Karamshi Parekh), great social worker and founder of Mahila Griha Udyog and Lijjat Papad, died.
Died 1979
Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, cricketer, two Tests for India and bowling average of 205, died.
Died 2006
Ahmet Ertegun, a Turkish-American businessman, songwriter, and philanthropist.
Died 2013
C. N. Karunakaran, Indian painter and illustrator (b. 1940)