Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 14
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This is a list of selected December 14 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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- 1896 – Glasgow Subway (pictured), the third oldest below-ground metro system in the world after the London Underground and the Budapest Metro, began operations in Glasgow, Scotland.
- 1911 – Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team became the first people to reach the South Pole.
- 1918 – The German Empire's defeat in World War I, and the stated fact that none of the Allies would ever accept a German-born prince as the King of Finland, led Frederick Charles to renounce the throne.
- 1962 – NASA's Mariner 2 became the world's first spacecraft to successfully fly by Venus.
- 1995 – The Dayton Agreement was signed in Paris, France to end the Bosnian War.
More events: December 13 – December 14 – December 15
