So you want to have a drink but you aren't sure why? Here are some GREAT reasons to call your friends over and have a party.

December 14th
- Alabama Day (Alabama)

- Christian Feast Day

- Monkey Day (Unofficial holidays)


December 14th
- 1994 - Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam in the Yangtze River.

- 1946 - The United Nations General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York City.

- 1903 - The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

- 1902 - The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii.

- 2008 - President George W. Bush makes his fourth and final (planned) trip to Iraq as president and is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a news conference in Baghdad.

- 2004 - The Millau viaduct, the highest bridge in the world, near Millau, France is officially opened.

- 2004 - Cuba and Venezuela found the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas.

- 2003 - President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.

- 1999 - Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.

- 1995 - Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by leaders of various governments.

- 1983 - The 3rd Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.

- 1981 - Arab-Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset passes The Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the area of the Golan Heights.

- 1972 - Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission. This is the last manned mission to the moon of the 20th century.

- 1964 - American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States – The United States Supreme Court rules that the U.S. Congress can use the Constitution's Commerce Clause power to fight discrimination.

- 1963 - Baldwin Hills Reservoir wall bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles.

- 1962 - NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.

- 1961 - The United Republic of Tanzania joins the United Nations.

- 1960 - Ian Meckiff of Australia is run out by the West Indies, causing the first Tied Test in the history of cricket.

- 1958 - The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first expedition to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic.

- 1955 - Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sri Lanka join the United Nations.

- 1947 - The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded in Daytona Beach, Florida.

- 1941 - World War II: Japan signs treaty of alliance with Thailand.

- 1939 - Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.

- 1918 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.

- 1914 - Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires.

- 1913 - Haruna, the fourth and last ship of the Kong?-class, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.

- 1911 - Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.

- 1907 - The schooner Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Scilly Isles in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.

- 1900 - Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.

- 1896 - The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.

- 1836 - The Toledo War unofficially ends.

- 1825 - Advocates of Liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg.

- 1819 - Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.

- 1812 - The French invasion of Russia comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from Russia.

- 1782 - The Montgolfier brothers' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight.

- 1751 - The Theresian Military Academy is founded as the first Military Academy in the world.

- 1702 - The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of ?ishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.

- 1542 - Princess Mary Stuart becomes Mary, Queen of Scots.

- 1287 - St. Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.


December 14th
- 1503 - Nostradamus, French astrologer (d. 1566)

- 1995 - Princess Olimpia Preslavska of Bulgaria

- 1992 - Tori Kelly, American singer

- 1989 - Pedro Silva, Brazilian footballer

- 1988 - Nicolas Batum, French basketball player

- 1988 - Vanessa Anne Hudgens, American singer and actress

- 1988 - Hayato Sakamoto, Japanese baseball player

- 1987 - Alexander Gaskarth, American singer (All Time Low)

- 1985 - Jakub B?aszczykowski, Polish footballer

- 1985 - Julio Pimentel, Dominican baseball player

- 1985 - Paul Rabil, Professional lacrosse player

- 1985 - Tom Smith, Welsh rugby union footballer

- 1985 - Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress

- 1985 - Ren Yagami, Japanese actor

- 1984 - Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer

- 1984 - Edward Rainsford, Zimbabwean cricketer

- 1982 - Josh Fields, American baseball player

- 1982 - Steve Sidwell, English footballer

- 1982 - Anthony Way, English singer and actor

- 1981 - Amber Chia, Malaysian model and actress

- 1981 - Émilie Heymans, Canadian diver

- 1981 - Johnny Jeter, American professional wrestler

- 1981 - Liam Lawrence, Irish footballer

- 1981 - Shaun Marcum, American baseball player

- 1980 - Tata Young, Thai-American singer

- 1980 - Didier Zokora, Ivorian footballer

- 1979 - Sophie Monk, Australian actress, singer, and model

- 1979 - Michael Owen, English footballer

- 1978 - Dean Brogan, Australian rules footballer

- 1978 - Kim St-Pierre, Canadian ice hockey player

- 1978 - Radu Sârbu, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)

- 1978 - Patty Schnyder, Swiss tennis player

- 1976 - Leland Chapman, American bounty hunter

- 1976 - Sebastien Chaule, French-born German rugby player

- 1976 - André Couto, Portuguese racing driver

- 1976 - Santiago Ezquerro, Spanish footballer

- 1976 - Tammy Blanchard, American actress

- 1975 - Justin Furstenfeld, American rock singer

- 1975 - KaDee Strickland, American actress

- 1974 - Billy Koch, American baseball player

- 1973 - Tomasz Radzinski, Polish-born Canadian soccer player

- 1973 - Pat Burke, Irish basketball player

- 1973 - Thuy Trang, American actress (d. 2001)

- 1972 - Eric Anderson, American musical theatre actor

- 1972 - Marcus Jensen, American baseball player

- 1971 - Brian Gay, professional golfer; three-time winner on the PGA Tour

- 1971 - Tia Texada, American actress and singer

- 1971 - Mario Yamasaki, Referee

- 1971 - Michaela Watkins, American comic actress (Saturday Night Live)

- 1970 - Nadine Garner, Australian actress

- 1970 - Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer

- 1970 - Beth Orton, English singer-songwriter

- 1969 - Scott Hatteberg, American baseball player

- 1969 - Natascha McElhone, English actress

- 1968 - Noelle Beck, American actress

- 1967 - Ewa Bia?o??cka, Polish writer

- 1966 - Fabrizio Giovanardi, Italian racecar driver

- 1966 - Anthony Mason, American basketball player

- 1966 - Bill Ranford, Canadian ice hockey player

- 1966 - Tim Skold, Swedish/American musician

- 1965 - Craig Biggio, American baseball player

- 1965 - Ken Hill, American baseball player

- 1965 - Ted Raimi, an American actor

- 1963 - Alice Ripley American actress

- 1963 - Greg Abbott, English former football player

- 1963 - Cynthia Gibb, American actress

- 1963 - Vytautas Juozapaitis, Lithuanian baritone, pedagogue (professor) and TV host

- 1962 - Ginger Lynn (Ginger Lynn Allen), American adult film actress

- 1960 - Don Franklin, American actor

- 1960 - Chris Waddle, English footballer

- 1959 - Bob Paris, American bodybuilder and gay rights advocate

- 1959 - Jorge Vaca, Mexican boxer

- 1958 - Mike Scott, Scottish singer-songwriter (The Waterboys)

- 1958 - Spider Stacy, English musician (The Pogues)

- 1958 - François Zocchetto, French politician

- 1956 - Hanni Wenzel, Liechtenstein skier

- 1954 - James Horan, American actor

- 1954 - Alan Kulwicki, American NASCAR driver (d. 1993)

- 1954 - Steven MacLean, Canadian astronaut

- 1953 - Vijay Amritraj, Indian tennis player

- 1953 - René Eespere, Soviet-born Estonian composer

- 1953 - Vangelis Meimarakis, Greek lawyer and politician

- 1953 - Mikael Odenberg, Swedish politician

- 1952 - Germain Houde, French Canadian actor

- 1951 - Jan Timman, Dutch chess grandmaster

- 1951 - Paul Zaloom, American actor and puppeteer

- 1949 - Bill Buckner, American baseball player

- 1949 - Cliff Williams, English bassist (AC/DC)

- 1948 - Kim Beazley, Australian politician

- 1948 - Dee Wallace-Stone, American actress

- 1947 - Christopher Parkening, American guitarist

- 1947 - Linda Sutton, English artist

- 1946 - Jane Birkin, English-born French actress and singer

- 1946 - Patty Duke, American actress

- 1946 - Ruth Fuchs, East German athlete

- 1946 - Michael Ovitz, American film producer

- 1946 - Stan Smith, American tennis player

- 1946 - Joyce Vincent Wilson, American singer (Tony Orlando and Dawn)

- 1943 - R. Emmett Tyrrell, American magazine publisher

- 1942 - Zoe Laskari, Greek actress

- 1941 - Karan Armstrong, American soprano

- 1941 - Ellen Willis, American journalist (d. 2006)

- 1940 - Lex Gold, Scottish football administrator

- 1939 - Ernie Davis, American football player (d. 1963)

- 1938 - Leonardo Boff, Brazilian theologian

- 1935 - Lewis Arquette, American film actor, writer and producer (d. 2001)

- 1935 - Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991)

- 1932 - Abbe Lane, American singer and actress

- 1932 - Charlie Rich, American musician (d. 1995)

- 1931 - Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (d. 2002)

- 1927 - Richard Cassilly, American tenor (d. 1998)

- 1925 - Sam Jones, American baseball player (d. 1971)

- 1924 - Raj Kapoor, Indian actor (d. 1988)

- 1923 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (d. 2006)

- 1922 - Nikolay Basov, Soviet physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2001)

- 1922 - Don Hewitt, American creator of 60 Minutes (d. 2009)

- 1920 - Clark Terry, American trumpeter

- 1918 - James T. Aubrey, American television executive (d. 1994)

- 1918 - B.K.S. Iyengar, Indian yoga advocate

- 1917 - C.-H. Hermansson, Swedish communist leader

- 1917 - June Taylor, American choreographer (d. 2004)

- 1917 - Elyse Knox, American actress

- 1916 - Shirley Jackson, American writer (d. 1965)

- 1914 - Karl Carstens, President of Germany (d. 1992)

- 1914 - Attila Petschauer, Hungarian fencer (d. 1943)

- 1914 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (d. 2003)

- 1913 - Dan Dailey, American actor (d. 1978)

- 1911 - Spike Jones, American comedian and musician (d. 1965)

- 1911 - Hans von Ohain, German/American aerospace engineer (d. 1998)

- 1909 - Edward Tatum, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975)

- 1908 - Claude Davey, Welsh rugby union footballer (d. 2001)

- 1908 - Mária Szepes, Hungarian authoress (d. 2007)

- 1908 - Morey Amsterdam, American comedian and actor (d. 1996)

- 1902 - Frances Bavier, American actress (d. 1989)

- 1901 - Paul, king of Greece (d. 1964)

- 1897 - Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (d. 1995)

- 1897 - Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (d. 1977)

- 1896 - Jimmy Doolittle, American General (d. 1993)

- 1895 - Paul Eluard, French poet (d. 1952)

- 1895 - King George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952)

- 1884 - Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright (d. 1950)

- 1883 - Manolis Kalomiris, Greek classical composer (d. 1962)

- 1881 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress and film producer (d. 1956)

- 1870 - Karl Renner, President of Austria (d. 1950)

- 1866 - Roger Fry, English artist and art critic (d. 1934)

- 1853 - Errico Malatesta, Italian anarcho-communist (d. 1932)

- 1852 - Daniel De Leon, South American socialist (d. 1914)

- 1824 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)

- 1794 - Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (d. 1872)

- 1791 - Charles Wolfe, Irish poet (d. 1823)

- 1787 - Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1816)

- 1784 - Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Princess of Asturias (d. 1806)

- 1775 - Philander Chase, American founder of Kenyon College (d. 1852)

- 1775 - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (d. 1860)

- 1720 - Justus Möser, German statesman (d. 1794)

- 1678 - Daniel Neal, English historian (d. 1743)

- 1640 - (baptism date) – Aphra Behn, English playwright and novelist (d. 1689)

- 1631 - Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679)

- 1625 - Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695)

- 1607 - János Kemény, Hungarian aristocrat, writer and prince of Transylvania (d. 1662)

- 1546 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist (d. 1601)

- 1009 - Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045)

