December 14 Events

2010 Despite concern from the opposition, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declares he will pass laws by decree for the next six to eighteen months
2010 WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is released on bail
1997 "View From the Bridge," opens at Criterion Theater New York City
1997 Diners Club Senior Golf Match
1997 Juli Inkster and Dottie Pepper win LPGA Diners Club Matches
1997 Phoenix Coyote Mike Gartner is 5th NHLer to score 700 goals
1996 12th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1996 62nd Heisman Trophy Award: Danny Wuerffel, Florida (quarterback)
1995 "Les Miserables" opens at Cable Hall, Helsinki
1995 AIDS patient Jeff Getty recieves baboon bone marrow transplant
1993 Moslem fundamentalists murder 12 Kroates/Bosnians in Algeria
1992 Lennox Lewis given WBC title, when Riddick Bowe refused to fight him
1991 57th Heisman Trophy Award: Desmond Howard, Michigan (WR)
1991 Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in Red Sea, 476 killed
1990 Louis Jordan's revue "Five Guys Named Moe," premieres in London
1990 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later
1988 CBS' $1.1 B bid wins exclusive 1990-94 major-league baseball rights
1988 NBA's Miami Heat wins 1st game ever, 89-88 (Clippers), after 17 loses
1988 Spanish General strike to protest austerity measures
1988 U.S. agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs)
1987 Allan Border scores 205 vs. New Zealand to become Australia's top rungetter
1987 Chrysler pleads no contest to selling driven vehicles as new
1986 Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, took off from Edwards AFB, California on 1st non-stop, non-refueled flight around world
1985 U.S. Foreign Minister George Shultz arrives in West Berlin
1984 Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football
1983 "Peg" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 5 performances
1982 Marcel Dionne, LA, becomes 9th NHLer to score 500 goals
1981 Israel annexes Golan Heights (seized from Syria in war of 1967)
1980 "Onward Victoria" opens/closes at Martin Beck New York City for 1 performance
1980 Anders Kailur scores on 6th Islander penalty shot
1980 At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon
1980 Minnesota Vikings pass for 456 yards against Cleveland Browns, winning 28-24
1980 Nancy Lopez/Curtis Strange wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1980 New Orleans Saints end 14 game losing streak, beat New York Jets 21-20
1980 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1979 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 "Ballroom" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 116 performances
1978 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1978 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1977 "Saturday Night Fever,"starring John Travolta, premieres in New York City
1977 Egypt and Israel reps gather in Cairo for 1st formal peace conference
1977 Red Sox trade Fergie Jenkins to Rangers for John Poloni and cash
1977 Test Cricket debut of Abdul Qadir, vs. England at Lahore
1977 War criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years
1976 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Dutch Liberal/social dem abortion laws