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.
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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
- 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 D. 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, 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.
Births
- 1473 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence
- 1642 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723)
- 1740 - Pope Pius VII (d. 1823)
- 1771 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet
- 1840 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist (d. 1902)
- 1851 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (d. 1887)
- 1861 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress
- 1863 - Ernest Thayer, American poet (d. 1940)
- 1867 - John Galsworthy, English author (d. 1933)
- 1882 - Gisela Richter, art historian (d. 1972)
- 1910 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer
- 1911 - Shri Vethathiri Maharishi, founder of World Community Service Center (http://vethathiri.org)
- 1920 - Nehemiah Persoff, actor
- 1925 - Russell Baker, columnist
- 1926 - René Goscinny, comic-strip author
- 1926 - Lina Wertmüller, director
- 1930 - Earl Weaver, Baseball Hall of Fame manager
- 1935 - John Brodie, football player
- 1940 - Dash Crofts, musician
- 1941 - David Crosby, guitarist, songwriter
- 1943 - Jimmy Johnson, American football player and broadcaster
- 1945 - Steve Martin, comedian and 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, swimmer
- 1953 - James Horner, Academy Award-winning composer
- 1954 - Mark Fidrych, baseball player
- 1956 - Rusty Wallace, American race car driver
- 1959 - Marcia Gay Harden, Academy Award-winning actress
- 1959 - Earvin "Magic" Johnson, basketball player
- 1960 - Sarah Brightman, singer
- 1961 - Susan Olsen, actress
- 1964 - Brannon Braga, writer, director
- 1965 - Emmanuelle Béart, actress
- 1966 - Halle Berry, Academy Award-winning actress
- 1973 - Rana Faheem Aslam, Pakistani journalist
- 1976 - Alex Albrecht, co-host of The Screen Savers
- 1977 - Juan Pierre, baseball player
- 1977 - Philip Stamper, pro wrestler, actor
- 1983 - Mila Kunis, television actress
- 1983 - Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-born, British tennis player
Deaths
- 1433 - King John I of Portugal
- 1464 - Pope Pius II
- 1784 - Nathaniel Hone, painter
- 1941 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
- 1943 - Joe Kelley, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1871)
- 1951 - William Randolph Hearst, newspaper magnate
- 1955 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress
- 1956 - Bertolt Brecht, German writer (b. 1898)
- 1958 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1900)
- 1972 - Oscar Levant, actor, composer, musician
- 1977 - Michael Widman, labor union organizer
- 1980 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model
- 1981 - Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894)
- 1984 - J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright
- 1985 - Gale Sondergaard, actress
- 2002 - Dave Williams, singer (Drowning Pool)
- 2003 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer
- 2004 - Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1911)
Holidays and observances
External links
- BBC: On This Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/14)
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