BITS OF HISTORY (DECEMBER 14)

1911: Norwegian Roald Amundsen and four others became the first men to reach the South Pole.

1918: Women in Britain voted for the first time in a general election.

1939: The League of Nations expelled the Soviet Union for aggression against Finland.

1995: Leaders from former Yugoslavia signed a Bosnian peace treaty in Paris, ending Europe's worst conflict since World War.