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14 December
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1920 Shiromani Akali Dal, a centre-right Sikh-centric state political party in Punjab, was founded. It is the second-oldest political party in India, after Congress.
- 1934 All India Village Industries Association was established under the patronage of Mahatma Gandhi.
- 1953 Vijay Amritraj, Indian sports commentator, occasional actor and former tennis player, was born.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1503 Nostradamus, French astrologer, physician and reputed seer, was born. He is best known for his book Les Prophéties, a collection of 942 poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events.
- 1903 The Wright brothers attempt to fly the Wright Flyer for the first time at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
- 1911 Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole, beating an expedition led by Robert F. Scott.
- 1940 Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.
- 1962 NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
- 1972 Apollo 17, the last manned space mission to the Moon, returns to Earth, bringing an end to America's programme of lunar exploration.
- 2003 Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan, narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
- 2016 Amazon announces its first delivery by drone 2 km from their warehouse in the UK.
- ⭐ Significance
- World Energy Conservation Day is celebrated on 14th December globally to highlight the importance of energy consumption and its use in our day-to-day life, its scarcity and its impact on the sustainability of global ecosystems.
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