Page 7: Historical Events In December - 14

1977  Egypt and Israel reps gather in Cairo for first formal peace conference on December - 14.   

1979  Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, cricketer (2 Tests for India, avg 205), dies on December - 14.   

1980  At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon on December - 14.   

1980  Elston Howard, MVP catcher (NY Yankees), dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1981  On December - 14 israel annexes Golan Heights   

1985  NY Yankees great Roger Maris dies of cancer at age 51 on this day in history.   

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  Paul Clinton Sundberg, actor (Belle of NY, Easter Parade), dies on December - 14.   

1988  On December - 14 spanish general strike to protest austerity measures   

1988  US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs) on this day in history.   

1989  On December - 14 andrei D. Sakharov, author and Nobel laureate, dies in Moscow at age 68.   

1989  Movie actor Jock Mahoney (Dallas, Tarzan) dies at age 70 on this day in history.   

1989  Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist/dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68 on December - 14.   

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

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  Desmond Howard of Michigan wins the Heisman trophy on this day in history.   

1991  On this day in history john Arlott, cricketer (the greatest of cricket commentators), dies   

1993  Actress Myrna Loy dies at age 88 on this day in history.   

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  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 on this day in history.   

1995  On this day in history don Anthony, bandleader/songwriter, dies at 85   

1996  Alan Hargreaves, climber, dies at 92 on this day in history.   

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

1998  On December - 14 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   

2007  FAI World Grand Prix Gliding Championship at Omarama, New Zealand on December - 14.   

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

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  On December - 14 the Vatican announces it has rediscovered the lost last paintings of Raphael in Vatican Museum, painted 1520   

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

2017  On this day in history uS media regulator the Federal Communications Commission votes to end net neutrality   

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1009  On this day in history birth of emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045)   

1363  John Van [Jean C] Gerson, French theologist was born on December - 14.   

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

1546  On this day in history birth of tycho Brahe, Knudstrup Denmark, astronomer (Golden nose)   

1553  Henri IV the Bourbon, king of Navarra (Henri III)/France was born on this day in history.   

1625  Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695) was born on this day in history.   

1631  Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679) was born on this day in history.   

1640  (baptism date) was born on this day in history.   

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

1077  Agnes of Poitou, German empress/wife of emperor Henry III, dies on this day in history.   

1136  On this day in history death of harald IV, "Gylle Krist", king of Norway, murdered   

1417  On December - 14 death of john Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged & burned   

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

1476  On this day in history death of vlad III the Impaler (b. 1431)   

1510  Death of Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473) on this day in history.   

1542  James, king of Scotland (1513-42), dies at 30 on this day in history.