Today is Friday, December 14, the 349th day of 2012. There are 17 days left in the year.
1798 ― David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut & bolt machine
1911 ― South Pole first reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
1937 ― Japanese troops conquer/plunder Nanjing
1946 ― U.N. General Assembly votes to establish U.N. HQs in New York, N.Y.
1952 ― Uprising of captives in Pongam, South Korea, 82 die
1960 ― Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) forms
1967 ― DNA created in a test tube
1980 ― At 2 p.m. (EST), there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon
1988 ― U.S. agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Organization (first time in 13 years)
1990 ― Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later