23 Azar 1396

Events

• 1913 (113 years ago) Haruna, the fourth and last Kongō-class ship, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.
• 1918 (108 years ago) Giacomo Puccini's comic opera Gianni Schicchi premieres at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
• 1939 (87 years ago) Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.
• 1955 (71 years ago) Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations through United Nations Security Council Resolution 109.
• 1962 (64 years ago) NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
• 1963 (63 years ago) The dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles, California.
• 1995 (31 years ago) Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by the leaders of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. On the same day, NATO began ground peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 2013 (13 years ago) A reported coup attempt in South Sudan leads to continued fighting and hundreds of casualties.

Births

• 1546 (480 years ago) Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and chemist (died 1601)
• 1895 (131 years ago) George VI of the United Kingdom,
• 1895 (131 years ago) Paul Éluard, French poet and author (died 1952)
• 1924 (102 years ago) Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, director, and producer (died 1988)
• 1947 (79 years ago) Dilma Rousseff, Brazilian economist and politician, 36th President of Brazil
• 1970 (56 years ago) Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1979 (47 years ago) Michael Owen, English footballer and sportscaster
• 1988 (38 years ago) Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer

Deaths

• 872 (1154 years ago) Pope Adrian II,
• 1591 (435 years ago) John of the Cross, Spanish priest and saint (born 1542)
• 1799 (227 years ago) George Washington, American general and politician, 1st President of the United States (born 1732)
• 1947 (79 years ago) Stanley Baldwin, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1867)
• 1984 (42 years ago) Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1898)
• 1989 (37 years ago) Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1921)
• 1990 (36 years ago) Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss author and playwright (born 1921)
• 2013 (13 years ago) Peter O'Toole, British-Irish actor (born 1932)

All 415 events, births and deaths of December 14