EVENTOS OCURRIDOS UN 14 DE DICIEMBRE

Eventos históricos:
1900 Professor Max Planck of Berlin University revealed his revolutionary Quantum Theory.
1911 A Norwegian expedition led by Roald Amundsen became the first to reach the South Pole 35 days ahead of Captain Scott.
1918 For the first time in Britain women (over 30) voted in a General Election.
1959 Archbishop Makarios was elected Cyprus' first president.
1962 US Mariner II sent the first close-up pictures of the planet Venus back to Earth.
1981 Israel formally annexed the Golan Heights, occupied in 1967.
1990 After 30 years in exile, ANC president Oliver Tambo returned to South Africa.
1995 The peace plan for Bosnia-Herzegovina was formally signed at the Elysée Palace, Paris, creating two entities within Bosnia: a Muslim-Croat federation and a Serb republic.

Nacimientos
1503 Nostradamus, French physician and astrologer
1546 Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and mathematician
1866 Roger Fry, English painter and critic
1895 George VI, King of Great Britain
1935 Lee Remick, US actress
1946 Stan Smith, US tennis player

Fallecimientos
1799 George Washington, 1st US president
1861 Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria
1947 Stanley Baldwin, British politician
1959 Stanley Spencer, English painter
1989 Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and human-rights campaigner
1993 Myrna Loy, US film actress

(Tomado de HystoryToday)