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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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