A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, December 14th!
| 1799 | George Washington dies on his Mount Vernon estate.  |
| 1819 | Alabama joined the Union as the 22nd state. |
| 1861 | Prince Albert, husband of Britain’s Queen Victoria, died in London. |
| 1863 | Confederate General James Longstreet attacks Union troops at Bean’s Station, Tenn. |
| 1863 | President Abraham Lincoln grants amnesty to the widow of Confederate General B.H. Helm after she swears allegiance to the Union. Mrs. Helm is the half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln. |
| 1900 | Max Planck presents the quantum theory at the Physics Society in Berlin.  |
| 1906 | The first U1 submarine is brought into service in Germany. Italy’s MAS torpedo boats. |
| 1908 | The first truly representative Turkish Parliament opens. |
| 1909 | The Labor Conference in Pittsburgh ends with a “declaration of war” on U.S. Steel. |
| 1911 | Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole. |
| 1920 | The League of Nations creates a credit system to aid Europe. |
| 1939 | The League of Nations drops the Soviet Union from its membership. Joseph Avenol sold out the League of Nations. |
| 1941 | German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel orders the construction of defensive positions along the European coastline. Desperate Hours on Omaha Beach |
| 1946 | The United Nations adopt a disarmament resolution prohibiting the A-Bomb. |
| 1949 | Bulgarian ex-Premier Traicho Kostov is sentenced to die for treason in Sofia.  |
| 1960 | A U.S. Boeing B-52 bomber sets a 10,000-mile non-stop record without refueling. |
| 1979 | The album “London Calling” by the Clash was released. |
| 1980 | NATO warns the Soviets to stay out of the internal affairs of Poland, saying that intervention would effectively destroy the détente between the East and West. |
| 1981 | Israel annexed the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in 1967. |
| 1985 | Wilma Mankiller became the first woman to lead a major American Indian tribe as she took office as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. |
| 1993 | A Colorado judge struck down as unconstitutional the state’s voter-approved ban on gay rights laws. |
| 2000 | The Federal Trade Commission unanimously approved the $111 billion merger of America Online and Time Warner. |
| 2006 | South Korea’s Ban Ki-moon was sworn in as the eighth secretary-general of the United Nations. |
| 2008 | An Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at President George W. Bush during a news conference in Baghdad; Bush was not hit.
Man Throws Shoes At Bush
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Today in history facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.
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