August 14

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

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1 Events

Events

1040 - King Duncan I of Scotland is killed in battle against his cousin and successor Macbeth
1385 - 1383-1385 Crisis: Castilians are defeated by Portuguese at the Battle of Aljubarrota.
1598 - Irish under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, destroy English force at the Battle of Yellow Ford .
1842 - Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma
1846 - The Cape Girardeau meteorite, a 2.3 kg chondrite type meteorite struck earth near the town of Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.
1848 - Oregon Territory organized by Act of U.S. Congress
1880 - Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, completed
1893 - France introduces motor vehicle registration
1896 - Gold discovered in the Yukon, leading to the Klondike Gold Rush.

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.
1908 - First Beauty Contest held in Folkestone, England
1912 - United States Marines invade Nicaragua to support the US-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya resigned three years earlier
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 (970 km²).
1935 - Social Security Act passed, creating a government pension system for the retired
1941 - World War II - Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims
1945 - Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II.
1947 - Pakistan gain independence from the United Kingdom
1967 - UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
1969 - United Kingdom troops deployed in Northern Ireland
1971 - Bahrain declares its independence from United Kingdom
1972 - An East German Ilyushin-62 crashed during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156
1980 - Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at Gdańsk (German:Danzig), Poland shipyards.
1994 - Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.

2003 - Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
2004 - Sales tax holiday in Massachusetts. All sales taxes are suspended on purchases of $2500.00 or less.

1910 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrète
1911 - Shri Vethathiri Maharishi, founder of World Community Service Center, one of the greatest thinkers of the 21sr century
1920 - Nehemiah Persoff , actor
1925 - Russell Baker , columnist
1926 - René Goscinny, comic-strip author
1926 - Lina Wertmüller, director
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 - Antonio Fargas, actor
1946 - Susan Saint James, actress
1947 - Danielle Steel, novelist
1950 - Gary Larson, cartoonist
1950 - Bob Backlund, professional wrestler
1952 - Carl Lumbly, actor
1952 - Debbie Meyer, first Olympic swimmer to win 3 individual gold medals
1953 - James Horner, Academy Award-winning composer
1954 - Mark Fidrych, baseball pitcher
1956 - Rusty Wallace, NASCAR driver
1959 - Marcia Gay Harden, Academy Award-winning actress
1959 - Earvin "Magic" Johnson, basketball player
1960 - Sarah Brightman, singer
1961 - Susan Olsen, actress, The Brady Bunch
1964 - Brannon Braga, writer, director
1965 - Emmanuelle Béart, Cesar Award-winning actress
1966 - Halle Berry, Academy Award-winning actress
1973 - Rana Faheem Aslam , journalist, Pakistan
1976 - Alex Albrecht, former co-host of The Screen Savers
1983 - Mila Kunis, TV actress

Last updated: 10-20-2005 14:42:38