644 - Osman ibn Affan was appointed Third Caliph or Khalifa or Kalief of Islam
1287 - Zuider Zee seawall collapsed - loss of 50,000 lives
1656 - Artificial pearls 1st manufactured by M Jacquin in Paris made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales
1900 - Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presented a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
1911 - South Pole reached by Norwegian Ronald Amundsen
1915 - Jack Johnson became First black world heavyweight boxing champion
1937 - Japanese troops conquered and plundered Nanjing
1967 - DNA was created in a test tube
2003 - President George W. Bush announces the capture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
2014 - Miss World Pageant
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14 December Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management
http://nraombakc.blogspot.com/2012/11/14-december-knowledge-history-science.html
Games and Sports
1974 - Vivian Richards scored his first Test Cricket century 192 vs India with 20 fours and 6 sixes.
Music Historyhttp://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/music/dec14.htm
Updated 28 May 2017, 21 November 2014
