14th December anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1908
  • "Birth of Morey Amsterdam, American comedian and actor ."
  • 1909
  • United States
  • "Birth of Edward Tatum, American geneticist, won the Nobel Prize for showing that genes regulate chemical processes in living things"
• event
  • 1896
  • Opening of the Underground Railway (the 'shooglie') in Glasgow – remains the only underground in Scotland
  • 1903
  • United States
  • First flight of Wilbur & Orville Wright
  • 1911
  • Great Britain
  • National Insurance in Britain
  • 1911
  • Amundsen reaches the south pole
  • 1918
  • British women over 30 voted in the General Election for the first time .
  • 1939
  • The Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations for aggression against Finland
  • 1979
  • The album London Calling by The Clash was released
  • 1981
  • "Israel formally annexed the Golan Heights, which it had occupied since the Six-Day War in 1967"
  • 1986
  • "Americans Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager made the first non-stop flight around the world without refuelling, piloting the experimental plane Voyager"
  • 1999
  • American cartoonist Charles M. Schulz announced that he was retiring his popular Peanuts comic strip due to ill health
• Death
  • 1542
  • "Death of King James V of Scots; his baby daughter Mary 'Queen of Scots' succeeds him, just 6 days old "
  • 1861
  • Great Britain
  • Prince Albert dies
  • 1959
  • "Death of Stanley Spencer, British artist"
  • 1989
  • Russian Federation
  • "Death of Andrei Sakharov, Russian nuclear physicist and dissident who won the Nobel Peace Price for his work as a human rights campaigner"
  • 1993
  • "Death of Myrna Loy, American film actress ."
  • 1998
  • United States
  • "Death of A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., American civil rights advocate, writer and appeals court judge."
  • 1998
  • "Death of Norman Fell, American actor (‘Mr Roper’) ."