Trending News: 14 Dec History: On this day man reached the South Pole for the first time, Raj Kapoor was born

Historical Events on 14th December: December is the last month of the year and the date is passing on the date of this last month. Today we have reached on 14th December. If you go out to see this day through the prism of history, you will find many special and big things. On this day, for the first time man stepped on the South Pole. Roald Amundsen, one of the world’s greatest men in the field of polar exploration, reached the South Pole for the first time on 14 December in 1911. Norwegian Amundsen had left for Antarctica in June 1910 and had succeeded in his goal after a journey of about one and a half years. Apart from this, many more historical events are associated with this day. Let us know some big and historical events related to 14 December.

Historical events of 14 December

1911: Roald Amundsen stepped on the South Pole. He became the first person to achieve this feat.

1918: BKS Iyengar was born. Born in Bellur, Karnataka, Iyengar has the distinction of being the country’s first yoga guru.

1924: Birth of Raj Kapoor, the first showman of Hindi cinema. Raj Kapoor, who became a clap boy in Bombay Talkies in the 1930s, started his acting career at Prithvi Theater and apart from acting, earned a lot of fame in film production and direction as well.

1972: Apollo 17, the manned spacecraft sent to the Moon by the US, returned to Earth and with this the American mission of exploration of the Moon ended.

1995: Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia signed the Dayton Agreement in Paris, ending a three-year conflict between them.

2012: 28 people, including 20 primary school children, were killed in a shooting in Newtown, Connecticut in the US. The 20-year-old assailant, Adam Lanza, was also among the dead.