Today is Saturday, December 14th, the 349th day of 2024. There are 17 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On December 14, 2012, a gunman with a semiautomatic rifle killed 20 first-graders and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, then took his own life as police arrived; The 20-year-old also fatally shot his mother in her home before carrying out the attack on the school.

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In 1799, the first President of the United States, George Washington, died at the age of 67 at his home in Mount Vernon, Virginia.