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Saturday, 13 December 2014
On this day... December 14:
On this day...
December 14
:
Day of the Martyred Intellectuals
in Bangladesh (
1971
);
Monkey Day
557
–
A large earthquake
severely damaged the city of
Constantinople
.
1836
– The
Toledo War
, the mostly bloodless
boundary dispute
between
Ohio
and the adjoining
Territory of Michigan
, unofficially ended with a resolution passed by the controversial "Frostbitten Convention".
1913
–
Haruna
, the fourth and last ship of the
Kongō
-class
, was launched, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during
World War I
and
World War II
.
1994
– Construction on the
Three Gorges Dam
(pictured)
began on the
Yangtze River
in China.
2004
– Cuba and Venezuela founded the
Alliance for the Americas
, an
intergovernmental organization
dedicated to the integration of Latin American and Caribbean nations.
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