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14 December| 14 December 1135 | Norway [administration] | King Harold IV of Norway is murdered by his brother Sigurd; he is succeeded by his sons, Sigurd II and Inge I. | | 14 December 1542 | Scotland [political events] | Following the death of King James V of Scotland ‘of a broken heart’ on hearing the news of the bloody Scottish defeat at Solway Moss, he is succeeded by his six-day-old daughter, Mary Queen of Scots. Cardinal David Beaton claims the regency. | | 14 December 1546 | Scandinavia [births and deaths] | Tycho Brahe, leading Danish astronomer, teacher of Johannes Kepler, born in Knudstrup, Scania, Denmark-Norway (–1601). | | 14 December 1799 | America, USA [births and deaths] | George Washington, commander in chief during the American Revolution, and first president of the USA 1789–97, dies and is buried in Mount Vernon, Virginia (67). | | 14 December 1877 | Serbia, Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire [wars] | Serbia, siding with Russia, declares war on the Ottoman Empire. | | 14 December 1918 | Portugal [law and government] | Sidonio Paes, the dictatorial president of Portugal, is assassinated. Democracy is subsequently restored. | | 14 December 1955 | world [United Nations] | Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Finland, Hungary, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, and Spain are admitted to the United Nations (UN). | | 14 December 1981 | Middle East [political events] | Israel formally annexes the Golan Heights, taken from Syria in the 1967 Yom Kippur War. | | 14 December 1995 | Bosnia-Herzegovina, France [treaties] | The formal signing of the peace plan for Bosnia-Herzegovina takes place at the Elysée Palace, Paris, France; it creates two entities within Bosnia-Herzegovina, a Muslim-Croat federation with 51% of territory and a Serb republic with 49%; a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force will be replaced by a NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) implementation force. | | 14 December 1998 | USA [diplomacy] | US president Bill Clinton, on a peace mission to the Middle East, is the first US president to visit a Palestinian territory when he meets Palestinian Liberation Organization head Yasser Arafat on the Gaza Strip. In a show of hands the Palestinian National Council affirms its renunciation of violence against Israel. |
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