DECEMBER 14
1911: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and a team of four others become the first men to reach the South Pole, arriving a month ahead of British rival Robert F. Scott’s Antarctic expedition.
1985: Wilma Mankiller is sworn in as the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma; she is the first woman to lead a modern American Indian tribe.
1907:The Wright Brothers make their first attempt to fly the Wright Flyer in North Carolina.
1986: Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager take off on the first nonstop flight around the world without refueling, lifting off aboard the experimental Voyager aircraft from Edwards Air Force Base in California to start their nine-day journey.
1979:Punk rock group The Clash release London Calling in UK, a landmark album.
1934:Turkish women are given the right to vote.
1782:The Montgolfier Brothers launch first manned balloon
1542:Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland.
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