On this day in history - Today, December, 14

Today in History

• 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

  Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 children and 6 adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,

• 1961 Tanzania joins the United Nations

  Tanzania was created as a merger of Tanganyika and the Zanzibar Archipelago, both of which were unde

• 1958 Soviets Reach the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility

  A Pole of Inaccessibility is a location on Earth that is extremely difficult to access. In the North

• 1939 USSR expelled from the League of Nations

  The Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations for making aggressive demands of Finland.

• 1911 Roald Amundsen reaches South Pole

  Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team reached the South Pole, becoming the first men in rec