Wikipedia: August 14

August 14
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August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining.

Events

410 - Alaric sacks Rome
1385 - Castilians are defeated by Portuguese at theBattle of Aljubarrota
1598 - Irish under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, destroy English force at the Battle of Yellow Ford
1842 - Second Seminole War ends, Seminole Indians forced from Florida to Oklahoma
1848 - Oregon Territory organized by Act of Congress
1880 - Cologne Cathedral completed
1896 - Gold discovered in the Yukon
1900 - Beijing occupied by joint European-Japanese-United States force in campaign to end Boxer Rebellion in China
1901 - First powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
1912 - United States Marines invade Nicaragua
1933 - Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres.
1935 - Social Security Act passed
1941 - World War II - Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims
1945 - World War II - Japan surrenders following Soviet invasion of Manchuria and devastation of two cities by atomic bombs, ending the war
1947 - Pakistan and India gain independence from Britain at midnight, Pakistan commemorating the event on August 14 and India on August 15
1967 - In the United Kingdom a Marine Offences Act came into force prompting many offshore radio stations to close, most prominently Radio London off Frinton in Essex at 3pm local time on this day. Act boosted campaign for onshore commercial radio to be legalised enabling listeners to choose a non BBC English language station and for establishment style of BBC radio to be relaxed and refreshed. See BBC Radio 1
1969 - British troops deployed in Northern Ireland
1971 - Bahrain declares its independence from Great Britain
1972 - An East German Ilyushin-62 crashed during takeoff from East Berlin killing 156
1980 - Lech Walesa leads strikes at Gdansk, Poland shipyards
2003 - Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.

Births

1771 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet
1840 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, psychologist (+ 1902)
1861 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress
1863 - Ernest Thayer, poet: Casey at the Bat (+ 1940)
1867 - John Galsworthy, author (+ 1933)
1882 - Gisela Richter, art historian (+ 1972)
1910 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrete
1920 - Nehemiah Persoff, actor
1925 - Russell Baker, columnist
1926 - Lina Wertmüller, director
1926 - René Goscinny, comic-strip author
1935 - John Brodie, professional football player
1940 - Dash Crofts, musician
1941 - David Crosby, guitarist, songwriter
1943 - Jimmy Johnson, former NFL head coach, TV analyst
1945 - Steve Martin, comedian, actor
1945 - Wim Wenders, director
1946 - Susan Saint James, actress
1946 - Antonio Fargas, actor
1947 - Danielle Steel, novelist
1950 - Gary Larson, cartoonist
1952 - Debbie Meyer, Olympic gold medal swimmer
1959 - Earvin Magic Johnson, basketball player
1959 - Marcia Gay Harden, Academy Award winning actress
1960 - Sarah Brightman, singer
1961 - Susan Olsen, actress
1964 - Brannon Braga, writer, director
1965 - Emmanuelle Beart, Cesar Award winning actress
1966 - Halle Berry, Academy Award winning actress
1976 - April Edlow, African American artist and photographer
1988 - Fintan Samuel Nagle, frood

Deaths

1433 - King John I of Portugal
1951 - William Randolph Hearst, newspaper magnate
1955 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress
1956 - Bertolt Brecht, composer, playwright
1958 - Frédéric Joliot, scientist
1972 - Oscar Levant, actor, composer, musician
1977 - Michael Widman, labor union organizer
1984 - J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright
1985 - Gale Sondergaard, actress
2002 - Dave Williams, singer for Drowning Pool

Holidays and observances

Pakistan - Pakistan Indepdence Day

See Also:

August 13 - August 15 - July 14 - September 14 -- listing of all days

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