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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_14" title="December 14">December 14</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyred_Intellectuals_Day" title="Martyred Intellectuals Day">Martyred Intellectuals Day</a></b> in Bangladesh (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971" title="1971">1971</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1650" title="1650">1650</a> – English domestic servant <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Greene" title="Anne Greene">Anne Greene</a></b> survived being hanged for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide" title="Infanticide">infanticide</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1836" title="1836">1836</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War" title="Toledo War">Toledo War</a></b>, a mostly bloodless <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_dispute" title="Territorial dispute">territorial dispute</a> between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Territory" title="Michigan Territory">Michigan Territory</a>, was unofficially ended with a resolution passed by the controversial "Frostbitten Convention".</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913" title="1913">1913</a> –, the fourth and last Japanese battlecruiser of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong%C5%8D-class_battlecruiser" title="Kongō-class battlecruiser"><i>Kongō</i> class</a></b>, was launched and went on to serve in both world wars.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008">2008</a> – During a press conference in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a>, Iraqi journalist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntadhar_al-Zaidi" title="Muntadhar al-Zaidi">Muntadhar al-Zaidi</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_shoeing_incident" title="George W. Bush shoeing incident">threw his shoes</a></b> at U.S. president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> and Iraqi prime minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouri_al-Maliki" title="Nouri al-Maliki">Nouri al-Maliki</a>, yelling "This is for the widows and orphans and all those <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War" title="Casualties of the Iraq War">killed in Iraq</a>".</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_III_of_the_Sedre" title="John III of the Sedre">John III of the Sedre</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 648); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ashraf_Khalil" title="Al-Ashraf Khalil">Al-Ashraf Khalil</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1293); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helle_Thorning-Schmidt" title="Helle Thorning-Schmidt">Helle Thorning-Schmidt</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1966)</p>