14 December
Notable Births
Francisco Conceição
b. 2002
Portuguese footballer (born 2002)
Lonnie Walker IV
b. 1998
American basketball player (born 1998)
Kim Ji-woong
b. 1998
South Korean singer and actor (born 1998)
DK Metcalf
b. 1997
American football player (born 1997)
Barbie Ferreira
b. 1996
American actress and model (born 1996)
Raphinha
b. 1996
Brazilian footballer (born 1996)
Li Zijun
b. 1996
Chinese figure skater
Ivan Barbashev
b. 1995
Russian ice hockey player (born 1995)
Álvaro Odriozola
b. 1995
Spanish footballer (born 1995)
Kuldeep Yadav
b. 1994
Indian cricketer (born 1994)
Antonio Giovinazzi
b. 1993
Italian racing driver (born 1993)
Tori Kelly
b. 1992
American singer-songwriter (born 1992)
Ryō Miyaichi
b. 1992
Japanese footballer (born 1992)
Ben Henry
b. 1991
New Zealand rugby league footballer
Offset (rapper)
b. 1991
American rapper (born 1991)
Robert Covington
b. 1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Pedro Botelho (footballer, born 1989)
b. 1989
Brazilian footballer
Sam Burgess
b. 1989
England international dual-code rugby footballer & rugby league coach
Onew
b. 1989
South Korean singer and actor (born 1989)
Nicolas Batum
b. 1988
French basketball player (born 1988)
Notable Deaths
Rob Reiner
d. 2025
American filmmaker and actor (1947–2025)
Gérard Houllier
d. 2020
French footballer and manager (1947–2020)
Chuy Bravo
d. 2019
Mexican-American entertainer and actor (1956–2019)
Yu Kwang-chung
d. 2017
Taiwanese poet (1928–2017)
Paulo Evaristo Arns
d. 2016
Brazilian cardinal (1921–2016)
Bernard Fox (actor)
d. 2016
Welsh actor (1927–2016)
Glen Sonmor
d. 2015
Canadian ice hockey player, coach (1929–2015)
Vadym Tyshchenko
d. 2015
Soviet-Ukrainian footballer and coach (1963–2015)
Lillian Vernon (businesswoman)
d. 2015
American businesswoman and philanthropist
Theo Colborn
d. 2014
American biologist (1927–2014)
Louis Alphonse Koyagialo
d. 2014
Congolese politician
Bess Myerson
d. 2014
American actress and politician (1924–2014)
Fuzzy Thurston
d. 2014
American football player (1933–2014)
Janet Dailey
d. 2013
American writer
C. N. Karunakaran
d. 2013
Indian painter and illustrator
Dennis Lindley
d. 2013
British statistician (1923–2013)
Peter O'Toole
d. 2013
British actor (1932–2013)
George Rodrigue
d. 2013
American painter
Edward Jones (North Carolina politician)
d. 2012
American politician from North Carolina
Victoria Leigh Soto
d. 2012
American teacher and murder victim (1985–2012)
On This Day in History
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2025
At least 16 people are killed, including one gunman, and 43 injured in a mass shooting during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in the deadliest terror incident in Australia.
2025 Bondi Beach shooting
2020
A total solar eclipse is visible from parts of the South Pacific Ocean, southern South America, and the South Atlantic Ocean.
Solar eclipse of December 14, 2020
2017
The Walt Disney Company announces that it would acquire 21st Century Fox, including the 20th Century Fox movie studio, for $52.4 billion.
The Walt Disney Company
2013
A reported coup attempt in South Sudan leads to continued fighting and hundreds of casualties.
South Sudanese Civil War
2012
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
2004
The Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, is formally inaugurated near Millau, France.
Millau Viaduct
2003
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
Pervez Musharraf
1999
Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.
Vargas tragedy
1998
Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.
Armed Forces of Serbia and Montenegro
1995
Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by the leaders of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. On the same day, NATO began ground peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Yugoslav Wars
1994
Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.
Three Gorges Dam
1992
War in Abkhazia: Siege of Tkvarcheli: A helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli is shot down, resulting in at least 52 deaths, including 25 children. The incident catalyses more concerted Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia.
War in Abkhazia (1992–1993)
1986
Qasba Aligarh massacre: Over 400 Muhajirs killed in revenge killings in Qasba colony after a raid on Pashtun heroin processing and distribution center in Sohrab Goth by the security forces.
Qasba Aligarh massacre
1985
Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
Wilma Mankiller
1981
Arab–Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset ratifies the Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the Golan Heights.
Arab–Israeli conflict
1972
Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the most recent person to walk on the Moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.
Apollo program
1971
Bangladesh Liberation War: Over 200 of East Pakistan's intellectuals are executed by the Pakistan Army and their local allies. (The date is commemorated in Bangladesh as Martyred Intellectuals Day.)
Bangladesh Liberation War
1964
American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Congress can use the Constitution's Commerce Clause to fight discrimination.
Civil rights movement
1963
The dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles, California.
Baldwin Hills Dam disaster
1962
NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
NASA