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  On December - 14 at 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon   

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

1981  On this day in history israel annexes Golan Heights   

1985  NY Yankees great Roger Maris dies of cancer at age 51 on December - 14.   

1985  Roger Maris, HR hitter (61 in 61, NY Yankees), dies of cancer at 51 on this day in history.   

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 December - 14.   

1987  In the worst attack on merchant shipping in the 'Gulf War', 21 crewmen from a Norwegian tanker are killed on this day in history.   

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

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

1988  On this day in history uS agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs)   

1989  Andrei D. Sakharov, author and Nobel laureate, dies in Moscow at age 68 on this day in history.   

1989  Movie actor Jock Mahoney (Dallas, Tarzan) dies at age 70 on December - 14.   

1989  Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist/dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68 on this day in history.   

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

1990  On December - 14 f Dörrenmatt, writer, dies at 69   

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

1991  Desmond Howard of Michigan wins the Heisman trophy on December - 14.   

1991  John Arlott, cricketer (the greatest of cricket commentators), dies on this day in history.   

1993  Actress Myrna Loy dies at age 88 on December - 14.   

1993  Myrna Loy, [Williams], US actress (Jazz Singer), dies at 88 on this day in history.   

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

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  Don Anthony, bandleader/songwriter, dies at 85 on December - 14.   

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

1997  On this day in history owen Barfield, philosopher of language, dies at 99   

1998  On this day in history 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  On this day in history fAI World Grand Prix Gliding Championship at Omarama, New Zealand.   

2012  28 people, including 20 children, are shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

2017  The Walt Disney Company buys most of 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion on this day in history.   

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  Nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist/prophet was born on this day in history.   

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

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

1417  Death of John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged & burned on this day in history.   

1460  On this day in history 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  James, king of Scotland (1513-42), dies at 30 on December - 14.