On this day: December 14
George Washington dies, a spacecraft flies by Venus for the first time, Bob Dylan releases his first single, and President George W. Bush ducks flying shoes in Iraq, all on this day.
2007: The sci-fi action-thriller "I am Legend," starring Will Smith and based on the Richard Matheson novel of the same name, premieres in theaters. The movie opened to the largest ever box office for a non-Christmas film released in the U.S. in December, becoming the seventh-highest grossing film of the year and earning a worldwide total of $585 million.
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