December 14th

December 14 is the 348th (three hundred and forty-eighth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 349th in leap years. There are 17 days left to end the year.

Events

• 557: In Constantinople the dome of Hagia Sophia is severely damaged by an earthquake.
• 1287: In the Netherlands, a storm breaks the Zuiderzee dam (Saint Lucia flood). They die between 50 000 and 80,000 people.
• 1541: In Spain, Francisco Dávila institutes the Mayorazgo de Dávila.
• 1570: In the current territory of Colombia, the town of Ocaña is founded in the department of Norte de Santander.
• 1600: In the mouth of Manila Bay, the meeting took place between two Spanish ships, a potato and a galizabra, with 11 cannons of small caliber each, with two Dutch ships of superior force who waited for the recalada of the Acapulco ship to attack it. The Dutch were shot down suffering great losses.
• 1702 (according to the old calendar; January 30, 1703 according to the new calendar): in Japan the 47 ronin are killed by seppuku by the orders of the shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, for having avenged the death of his master.
• 1782: In France, the Montgolfier brothers make the first test flight of their first balloon.
• 1788: in Spain: King Charles IV ascends to the throne at the death of his father, Charles III.
• 1810: in Hampshire (England), a violent F5 tornado runs from Old Portsmouth to Southsea Common; it is believed that there were no fatal casualties.
• 1812: The Great Armée of Napoleon is expelled from Russia.
• 1836: In the United States the war between Ohio and Michigan is unofficial.
• 1852: In Spain, Federico Roncali Ceruti is appointed president of the Council of Ministers.
• 1855: In Chile, the National Congress approves the Civil Code drafted by Andrés Bello.
• 1865: in Tetela de Ocampo, Puebla, Mexico are facing the Austro-Hungarian Legion and Serb guerrillas in the population of "Muuapan", in the framework of resistance to the Second Mexican Empire.
• 1882: foundation of the city of Armstrong, province of Santa Fe, Argentina.
• 1897: In the Philippines, General Fernando Primo de Rivera and Philippine Independence Chief Emilio Aguinaldo signed the Biak-na-Bató Pact which, at the moment, puts an end to the insurrection.
• 1900: In Berlin, Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his law of black body radiation giving rise to quantum mechanics.
• 1911: the Norwegian expedition of Roald Amundsen and five collaborators arrive at the South Pole.
• 1913: first classic of Uruguayan football between Club Atlético Peñarol and Club Nacional de Football.
• 1914: at the Savoy Hotel in Buenos Aires, the Rosarino Lisandro de la Torre and others founded the Progressive Democratic Party.
• 1920: In the UK, the House of Lords approves the division of Ireland into two autonomous territories, the Protestant north and the Catholic south.
• 1920: Argentina withdraws from the League of Nations.^{[chuckles]required]}
• 1921: Germany calls for a postponement in the payments of war reparations to allies.
• 1922: in Cabimas (Venezuela), the reventon of the Barroso II well discovers the oil potential of the Campo Costanero Bolívar on the east coast of the lake of Maracaibo.
• 1924: In Argentina the Club Atlético Racing club was founded in the city of Córdoba.
• 1927: in Spain, the Iberia company makes its first commercial flight, which starts from Carabanchel airfield to Barcelona.
• 1930: in Spain the captains of Galan and García Hernández, responsible for the revolt of Jaca, are shot.
• 1937: In Nanking (capital of the Republic of China between 1912 and 1949), the third day of the Nanking massacre takes place, in which, until early February 1938, the Japanese invaders raped and murdered half a million men, women and children.
• 1939: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.
• 1942: In North Africa—in the framework of World War II—Erwin Rommel—the Desert Fox—is forced to withdraw from El Agheila.
• 1942: In Spain the law of the Compulsory Health Insurance is passed.
• 1944: Second World War: Allied air strikes on Rangun and Bangkok.
• 1946: The United Nations General Assembly voted to establish its headquarters in New York City.
• 1947: In Spain the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium is inaugurated.
• 1947: In Daytona Beach (Florida) the NASCAR is founded (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing).
• 1948: In El Salvador there is a coup against General Salvador Castaneda Castro, who wanted to re-elect.
• 1950: the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is established.
• 1955: 15 new countries enter the UN: Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Portugal, Romania and Spain.
• 1955: in Havana, Cuba, the Palace of Fine Arts is officially inaugurated.
• 1958: In Antarctica, the Third Soviet Antarctic Expedition is the first to reach the relative inaccessibility pole.
• 1961: The United Republic of Tanzania joins the UN.
• 1962: U.S. Mariner 2 is the first ship to Venus. It is close to 33,000 km after 300 million kilometers.
• 1962: in Havana (Cuba) the First National Congress of Culture is session.
• 1962: in a well 59 meters underground, in the U9af area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 10:00 (local time) United States detonates its Manatee atomic bomb, of less than 20 kilotons. It's the 304 bomb of 1131 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1967: at Stanford University, USA, Arthur Kornberg and his colleague announced the first successful synthesis of DNA.
• 1969: The television programme is broadcast for the first time in Mexico Always on Sundayof enormous success in Latin America.
• 1969: Boca empata 2 to 2 with River in the Monumental Stadium and is dedicated champion of the National Tournament of that year.
• 1971: in a well 331 meters underground, in the U2dL area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 13:09:59 (local time) United States detonates its 24 kiloton Chaenactis atomic bomb. Two seconds after detonating the Hospah pumps (from 11 kt) and Yerba (5 kt). It is the 750 to 752 bombs of 1131 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1972: In the framework of the Apollo program, Eugene Cernan is the last person who walked on the Moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt completed the third and last extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17. This was the last manned mission to the Moon in the 20th century.
• 1972: in a well 201 meters underground, in the U9itsw24 area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 7:30 (local time) United States detonates its atomic bomb Solanum, less than 20 kilotons. It is the 781 bomb of 1131 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1977: in a well at 213 meters underground, in the U3jv area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 7:00 (local time) United States detonates its atomic bomb Rib, of 0.80 kilotons. Half an hour later, 668 m deep and about 14.7 km southeast, detonates the Farallones bomb of 0.15 kt. It is the bombs number 902 and 903 of the 1131 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1979: British band The Clash launches its most successful album, London Calling.
• 1979: in a well 235 meters underground, in the U2em area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 10:00 (local time) United States detonates its Blue atomic bomb, of less than 20 kilotons. It is the 939 bomb of 1131 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1982: in Spain, Gerardo Iglesias is elected secretary general of the PCE in replacement of Santiago Carrillo.
• 1982: in New York, United States, UNESCO declares the historic centre of Old Havana (Cuba) as a World Heritage Site.
• 1983: In Chile, the Patriotic Front Manuel Rodríguez, an armed arm of the Communist Party of Chile, began its activities between 1983 and 1987 with a great blackout at the national level
• 1984: Cuba and the United States sign migration agreements.
• 1987: the Cortes de Castilla y León approve the law that designates Valladolid the capital of the autonomous community of Castilla y León.
• 1988: in Spain, UGT and CC unions. OO. called for a general strike (14-D) that was massively flooded and forced the government of Felipe González to withdraw its labor reform.
• 1989: in Chile, Patricio Aylwin is elected president.
• 1990: in Tijuana, Mexico, twelve people (between the age of 6 and 46) of the evangelical sect The Temple of the Midday commit suicide by ingesting methyl alcohol (industrial alcohol) in a ritual manner.
• 1994: In China, the construction of the Three Gorges Dam begins.
• 2000: The Council of Ministers of ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific States) admits Cuba as a number 78 member.
• 2003: Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf escapes an attempted murder.
• 2003: Boca Juniors holds champion for the third time of the Intercontinental Cup when he beats Milan at the International Stadium of Yokohama, Japan.
• 2004: in France, President Jacques Chirac inaugurates the highest bridge in the world, the Millau Viaduct, built 343 meters high, in the Millau region.
• 2004: Venezuela and Cuba founded ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for Our America).
• 2006: the Che Guevara football club was founded in the city of Córdoba (Argentina).
• 2008: the Mexican pop group RBD gives its last concert in Chile, exactly a week before its show in Madrid, which would be the last of the group.
• 2008: In Baghdad, Iraq, Iraqi journalist Muntazer al Zaidi throws his two shoes at George W. Bush in his fourth and last trip to Iraq.
• 2010: in Havana (Cuba) the government launches the online encyclopedia EcuRed, with wiki code.
• 2010: the city of San José, the capital of Costa Rica, reaches in the early morning the lowest temperature in the last 15 years, with 12.8 °C in the Aranjuez district station, reports the National Meteorological Institute (IMN). At the same point, but in December 1995, the teams had scored 13.4 °C. In December 1976 thermometer decreased to 10.4 °C.
• 2011: in Chile, the University of Chile is dedicated champion of the South American Cup by winning 3-0 to Liga de Quito.
• 2012: In a primary school in the U.S. town of Newtown (Connecticut) there is a massacre that leaves 28 dead, including 20 children.
• 2013: In Valencia, Spain, a national presentation of the civil platform Citizen Movement is held.
• 2013: China becomes the third country in the world to perform an alunizaje.
• 2017: In Andorra (Teruel), Norbert Feher kills José Luis Iranzo, rancher and grandson of José Iranzo Bielsa, Pastor of Andorra, and two more civilian guards; the town decrees three days of mourning.
• 2020: the last total solar eclipse of the year occurred, called 'The eclipse of the century', which completely darkened much of the Patagonia of Argentina and Chile, and was partially looked at in the rest of the countries mentioned, in addition to others such as Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay and Brazil. This will happen again in 2048.

Births

• 200: σjin, 15th Japanese emperor (f. 310).
• 1009: Go-Suzaku, 69th Japanese emperor (f. 1045).
• 1503: Michel de Nostradamus, astrologer and French boticary (f. 1566).
• 1546: Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (f. 1601).
• 1625: Barthélemy d’Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (f. 1695).
• 1640 (date of his baptism): Aphra Behn, playwright and British novelist (f. 1689).
• 1727: François-Hubert Drouais, French painter (f. 1775).
• 1739: Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, a French businessman and economist (f. 1817).
• 1769: Paul Thiébault, French military (f. 1846).
• 1775: Thomas Cochrane, politician and British naval adventurer (f. 1860).
• 1777: Juan Nicasio Gallego, Spanish poet (f. 1853).
• 1784: María Antonia de Borbón-Dos Sicilias, Princess of Asturias, first wife of Fernando VII (f. 1806).
• 1787: Joaquín Mosquera, a Colombian politician (f. 1878).
• 1802: Carlos Martínez de Irujo and McKean, Spanish diplomat and politician, Duke of Sotomayor (f. 1855).
• 1812: Charles John Canning, British politician (f. 1862).
• 1824: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (f. 1898).
• 1831: Arsenio Martínez-Campos Antón, militar y política español (f. 1900).
• 1840: Viktor Madarász, Hungarian romantic painter (f. 1917).

Manuel Candamo Iriarte.

• 1841: Manuel Candamo Iriarte, a Peruvian politician, president of Peru between 1903 and 1904 (f. 1904).
• 1846: Joaquín Costa, politician, sociologist and Spanish polygraph (f. 1911).
• 1853: Salvador Díaz Mirón, Mexican poet (f. 1928).
• 1853: Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (f. 1932).
• 1866: Roger Fry, British artist and critic (f. 1934).

Karl Renner.

• 1870: Karl Renner, a politician and Austrian president (f. 1950).
• 1870: Dirk Jan de Geer, a Dutch politician (f. 1960).
• 1883: Manolis Kalomiris, Greek classical composer (f. 1962).
• 1883: Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist (f. 1969).
• 1887: Xul Solar, Argentine painter (f. 1963).
• 1894: Joaquín Zamacois, Chilean composer (f. 1976).
• 1895: Paul Eluard, French poet (f. 1952).

Jorge VI.

• 1895: George VI, British aristocrat, king of the United Kingdom between 1936 and 1952 (f. 1952).
• 1896: James H. Doolittle, American military (f. 1993).
• 1897: Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (f. 1977).
• 1897: Georges Thill, French tenor (f. 1984).
• 1898: Lillian Randolph, American actress and singer (f. 1980).
• 1900: Juan D'Arienzo, musician and director of Argentine orchestra (f. 1976).
• 1901: Henri Cochet, French tennis player (f. 1987).
• 1901: Paul I of Greece, Greek king (f. 1964).
• 1902: Frances Bavier, American actress (f. 1989).
• 1908: Morey Amsterdam, American actor (f. 1996).

Edward Tatum.

• 1909: Edward Tatum, American geneticist, nobel prize of medicine in 1958 (f. 1975).
• 1910: Óscar Osorio, militar y político salvadoreño (f. 1969).
• 1911: Spike Jones, American comedian and musician (f. 1965).
• 1911: Hans von Ohain, German inventor (f. 1998).
• 1913: Dan Dailey, an American actor (f. 1978).

Karl Carstens.

• 1914: Karl Carstens, German politician, president of Germany between 1979 and 1984 (f. 1992).
• 1914: Arturo Mor Roig, Argentine politician (f. 1974).
• 1914: John Earle Raven, British classic and botanical philologist (f. 1980).
• 1914: Rosalyn Tureck, an American pianist and carver (f. 2003).
• 1915: Ave Ninchi, Italian actress (f. 1997).
• 1916: Shirley Jackson, American writer (f. 1965).
• 1916: José María Knörr, Spanish entrepreneur (f. 2012).
• 1918: B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga promoter (f. 2014).
• 1919: Juan José Manauta, Argentine writer (f. 2013).
• 1920: Orlando Pelayo, Spanish painter (f. 1990).
• 1920: Rosemary Sutcliff, English writer (f. 1992)
• 1920: Clark Terry, American jazz trompetist (f. 2015).

Nikolái Básov.

• 1922: Nikolái Básov, Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 (f. 2001).
• 1922: Don Hewitt, American news programme creator 60 Minutes (f. 2009).
• 1922: Antonio Larreta, actor, critic and Uruguayan writer (f. 2015).
• 1922: Cecil Payne, American saxophoneist (f. 2007).
• 1923: Gerard Reve, a Dutch writer (f. 2006).
• 1923: Raquel Tibol, critique and scholar of Mexican art (f. 2015).
• 1924: Raj Kapoor, Indian actor and filmmaker (f. 1988).
• 1928: Raúl Urtizberea, Argentine journalist (f. 2010).
• 1929: David Manzur, a Colombian painter.
• 1932: Daniel Riolobos, Argentinean singer (f. 1992).
• 1932: Etienne Tshisekedi, a Congolese politician (f. 2017).
• 1935: Lewis Arquette, American actor, writer and producer (f. 2001).
• 1935: Lee Remick, American actress (f. 1991).
• 1936: Norberto Menéndez, Argentine footballer (f. 1994).
• 1937: Franz De Mulder, Belgian cyclist (f. 2001).
• 1938: Leonardo Boff, Brazilian theologian.
• 1940: Paco Camino, Spanish bullfighter.
• 1942: Juan Diego, Spanish actor f 2022.
• 1946: Jane Birkin, British actress and singer.
• 1946: Patty Duke, American actress (f. 2016).
• 1946: Ruth Fuchs, German athlete.
• 1946: Stan Smith, American tennis player.
• 1947: Christopher Parkening, American guitarist.
• 1947: Dilma Rousseff, Brazilian politics.
• 1948: Dee Wallace-Stone, American actress.
• 1949: Cliff Williams, British bassist, AC/DC band.
• 1950: José Bono, Spanish politician.
• 1951: Amy Hempel, American writer.
• 1951: Jan Timman, Dutch chess.
• 1951: Celia Weston, American actress.
• 1951: Paul Zaloom, American actor and puppeteer.
• 1952: Graciela Alfano, actress, model and vedette argentina.
• 1954: Steven MacLean, Canadian astronaut.
• 1956: Osvaldo Príncipi, sports journalist and Argentine boxing rapporteur.
• 1956: Hanni Wenzel, a liechtensteinian skier.
• 1958: Mike Scott, British musician, The Waterboys band.
• 1958: Spider Stacy, British musician, The Pogues band.

Ebrahim Raisi.

• 1959: Bob Paris, a physicist and American gay activist.
• 1960: Ebrahim Raisi, Iranian alphachi and politician, President of Iran since 2021.
• 1962: Ginger Lynn, American actress.
• 1963: Cynthia Gibb, American actress.
• 1964: Yuri Lutsenko, Ukrainian politician.
• 1964: Rebecca Gibney, New Zealand actress.
• 1964: Liuba María Hevia, Cuban guitarist and songwriter.
• 1965: Craig Biggio, American baseball player.
• 1966: Fabrizio Giovanardi, Italian motor racing driver.
• 1966: Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Danish politics.
• 1967: William Luna, Peruvian singer and composer.
• 1970: Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer.
• 1970: Beth Orton, British singer.
• 1971: Natascha McElhone, British actress.
• 1973: Thuy Trang, American actress (f. 2001).

Michael Owen

• 1976: Santi Ezquerro, Spanish footballer.
• 1977: Marvin Lambert, Professional fighter (f. 2012).
• 1977: Romain Dumas, a French motor racing pilot.
• 1978: Radu Sârbu, Moldovan vocalist, of the band O-Zone.
• 1978: Patty Schnyder, Swiss tennis player.
• 1979: Jean-Alain Boumsong, French footballer.
• 1979: Sophie Monk, Australian actress, model and singer.
• 1979: Michael Owen, retired British footballer.
• 1979: Miguel Angel Sebastián Romero, Argentine footballer.
• 1979: Swan Fyahbwoy, Spanish singer.
• 1979: Yaco Eskenazi, Peruvian actor and presenter.
• 1980: Tata Young, Thai singer.

Vanessa Hudgens

• 1980: Didier Zokora, Ivorian footballer.
• 1982: Steve Sidwell, British footballer.
• 1983: Stéphanie Frappart, French arbitra.
• 1984: Chris Brunt, North Irish footballer.
• 1984: Molly Nilsson, Swedish music artist synth-pop.
• 1985: Jakub Błaszczykowski, Polish footballer.
• 1987: Alex Gaskarth, American singer, All Time Low band.
• 1987: Ana María Polvorosa, Spanish actress.
• 1988: Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer.
• 1988: Nicolas Batum, French basketball player.
• 1988: Hayato Sakamoto, Japanese baseball player.

Tori Kelly

• 1989: Onew, South Korean singer, SHINee group leader.
• 1991: Samantha Peszek, American gymnast.
• 1991: Offset, American rapper.
• 1991: Mitsuki Takahata, Japanese actress and singer.
• 1992: Tori Kelly, American singer and composer.
• 1992: Claudia Traisac, Spanish actress.
• 1993: Antonio Giovinazzi, Italian motor racing pilot.

Deaths

• 610: Venancio Fortunato, bishop and French saint (n. 536).
• 872: Adriano II, Italian pope (n.?).
• 1591: Saint John of the Cross, a Spanish mystical poet (n. 1542).
• 1761: Jacinto Canek, defender of Mayan origin (n. 1730).
• 1788: Charles III, king of Spain between 1759 and 1788 (n. 1716).
• 1788: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German musician and composer (n. 1714).
• 1799: George Washington, U.S. military, president between 1789 and 1797 (n. 1732).
• 1836: Francisco Espoz and Mina, a Spanish military man (n. 1781).
• 1844: Melchor Múzquiz, Mexican president (n. 1790).
• 1847: Manuel José de Arce y Fagoaga, a Salvadoran military and politician (n. 1787).
• 1860: George Hamilton-Gordon, fourth count of Aberdeen, British Prime Minister (n. 1784).
• 1861: Alberto de Saxony-Coburg-Gotha, British aristocrat, husband of Queen Victoria (n. 1819).
• 1863: Manuel Blanco Romasanta, Spanish criminal psychopath (n. 1809).
• 1873: Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, Swiss naturalist (n. 1807).
• 1898: Alexander Macfarlane, Canadian politician (n. 1818).
• 1909: Agustín Querol, Spanish sculptor (n. 1860).
• 1914: Giovanni Sgambati, composer, conductor and pianist Italian (n. 1841).
• 1955: Robert Mayne, Lieutenant Colonel, activist and co-founder of the SAS (n. 1915).
• 1918: Sidonio Pais, Portuguese president between 1917 and 1918 (n. 1872).
• 1926: Manuel M. Plata, Mexican military (n. 1855).
• 1943: John Harvey Kellogg, American nutritionist (n. 1852).
• 1945: Forrester Harvey, an Irish actor (n. 1884).
• 1947: Stanley Baldwin, politician and British prime minister (n. 1867).
• 1956: Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish President (n. 1870).
• 1962: Alfredo Kindelán, a Spanish military officer (n. 1879).
• 1963: Dinah Washington, American singer and music (n. 1924).
• 1964: William Bendix, American actor (n. 1906).
• 1964: Francisco Canaro, composer, violinist and director of Uruguayan orchestra (n. 1888).
• 1966: Víctor Andrés Belaúnde, Peruvian intellectual (n. 1883).
• 1978: Salvador de Madariaga, essayist and Spanish diplomat (n. 1886).
• 1978: Edmundo Mundo Suarez, Spanish footballer (n. 1916).
• 1984: Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1977 (n. 1898).
• 1984: Alberto Fernández Blanco, Spanish cyclist (n. 1955).
• 1986: Pedro Sainz Rodríguez, Spanish writer and politician (n. 1897).
• 1989: Andréi Sájarov, Soviet physicist, Nobel Peace Prize in 1975 (n. 1921).
• 1990: Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (n. 1921).
• 1990: Francisco Gabilondo Soler, Mexican composer (n. 1907).
• 1993: Myrna Loy, American actress (n. 1905).
• 1993: Silvina Ocampo, an Argentine writer (n. 1903).
• 1995: Eduardo Simián, footballer, engineer and Chilean politician (n. 1915).
• 1997: Stubby Kaye, American actor (n. 1918).
• 1998: Norman Fell, American actor (n. 1924).
• 1998: Vittorio Cottafavi, Italian filmmaker (n. 1914).
• 2001: Conte Candoli, American trumpetist (n. 1923).
• 2001: Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and geographer (n. 1897).
• 2001: W. G. Sebald, German writer (n. 1944).
• 2003: Jeanne Crain, American actress (n. 1925).
• 2004: Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino presidential candidate and actor (n. 1939).
• 2005: Trevanian, American writer (n. 1931).
• 2006: Ahmed Ertegün, recording entrepreneur, co-founder of Atlantic Records (n. 1923).
• 2008: Ramón Barce, Spanish composer and philosopher (n. 1928).
• 2010: Neal C. Wilson, American pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (n. 1920).
• 2011: Joe Simon, American hysterist (n. 1913).
• 2013: Peter O'Toole, Irish actor (n. 1932).
• 2016: Jean-Paul Pier, Luxembourg mathematician (n. 1933)
• 2017: R. C. Sproul, theologian and presbyterian American pastor (n. 1939).
• 2019: Anna Karina, Danish actress and singer (n. 1940).
• 2020: Alfredo Hoyos Mazuera, a Colombian businessman, recognized for being the founder of the Frisby restaurant chain. (n. 1946).
• 2021: Riccardo Ehrman, Italian journalist (n. 1929).

Celebrations

• International Day of Radio and Television for Children
• International Monkey Day
• United States: Alabama Day
• JapanJapan: commemoration day of 47 rōnin
• BangladésBangladesh: Day of martyred intellectuals

Catholic saints list

• Saint John of the Cross, priest and doctor of the Church (1591).
• Saints Heron, Atheist, Isidore and Diocese of Alexandria, martyrs (250).
• Saints Tirso, Leucio and Calínico of Apolonia, martyrs (c. 250).
• Saint Droside of Antioch, martyr (s. III/IV).
• saints Ares, Promo and Elijah of Ascalón, martyrs (308/ 309).
• Saint Pompey of Pavia, bishop (s. IV).
• Saint Nicasio of Reims, Bishop (407).
• Saint Agnelo of Naples, Abbot (c. 596).
• Saint Venancio Fortunato, bishop (610).
• San Folcuino de Thérouanne, bishop (855).
• Blessed Bonaventure Bonaccorsi, priest (c. 1315).
• beato Nimatulacio al-Hardini, priest (1858).
• Blessed Francisca Schervier, virgin (1876).
• beato Protasio Cubells Minguell, religious and martyr (1936).