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Events on December 14

• 1287 The Lucia flood breaks over the German North Sea coast, killing some 50,000 people.
• 1784 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is admitted to the Freemasons' lodge Zur Wohltätigkeit.
• 1900 Max Planck presents the theoretical interpretation of his radiation law before the Physical Society in Berlin. He assumes that radiant energy can only be emitted in certain portions (energy quanta). This is now regarded as the birth of quantum physics.
• 1911 As part of the Fram expedition, Roald Amundsen and his team become the first people to reach the geographic South Pole and erect the first Camp Polheim there.
• 1930 Physicist Manfred von Ardenne successfully carries out the world's first fully electronic television transmission using a cathode ray tube in a laboratory experiment.
• 1966 Willy Brandt becomes Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Grand Coalition. His successor as Governing Mayor of Berlin is Heinrich Albertz.
• 1972 Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan leaves the Moon as the last human being for the time being.
• 1976 Student Richard Oetker, son of entrepreneur Rudolf-August Oetker, is abducted by Dieter Zlof in Freising with the aim of extorting ransom.
• 2003 The official confirmation of Saddam Hussein's arrest is made by British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
• 2004 The Viaduc de Millau, the world's tallest cable-stayed bridge at 343 metres, is inaugurated in southern France.
• 2012 In a shooting rampage in the American town of Newtown, 28 people are killed, including 20 schoolchildren.
• 2017 The American science fiction film Star Wars: The Last Jedi premieres in German cinemas. It is the eighth episode of the Star Wars film series.

Born on December 14

• 1870 Karl Renner, Austrian politician and jurist
• 1884 Erich Ponto, German actor
• 1895 Paul Éluard, French poet and broker
• 1914 Karl Carstens, German politician
• 1951 Mike Krüger, German comedian, musician, singer and songwriter
• 1960 Wolf Haas, Austrian writer
• 1960 Ebrahim Raissi, Iranian cleric and politician
• 1961 Frank Kessler, German actor
• 1962 Bela B., German musician, composer, actor and voice actor
• 1991 Tabea Kemme, German football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „14. Dezember“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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