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What Happened on August 14th This Day in History

Year	Name
2022	An explosion destroys a market in Armenia, killing six people and injuring dozens.
2021	A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis.
2015	The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–United States relations were broken off.
2013	Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
2013	UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing both crew members on board.
2007	The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 500 people.
2006	Lebanon War: A ceasefire takes effect three days after the United Nations Security Council’s approval of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, formally ending hostilities between Lebanon and Israel.
2006	Sri Lankan Civil War: Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike.
2005	Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
2003	A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
1996	Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
1994	Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
1980	Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
1972	An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany killing 156 people.
1971	Bahrain declares independence from Britain.
1969	The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland as political and sectarian violence breaks out, marking the start of the 37-year Operation Banner.
1967	UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
1959	Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
1947	Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire.
1941	World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
1936	Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
1935	Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
1933	Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2) of land.
1921	Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
1920	The 1920 Summer Olympics, having started four months earlier, officially open in Antwerp, Belgium, with the newly-adopted Olympic flag and the Olympic oath being raised and taken at the Opening Ceremony for the first time in Olympic history.[27]
1917	World War I: The Republic of China, which had heretofore been shipping labourers to Europe to assist in the war effort, officially declares war on the Central Powers, although it will continue to send to Europe labourers instead of combatants for the remaining duration of the war.
1914	World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive.
1901	The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
1900	The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
1893	France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
1885	Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
1880	Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
1848	Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
1842	American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida.
1816	The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
1814	A cease fire agreement, called the Convention of Moss, ended the Swedish–Norwegian War.
1791	Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking the start of the Haitian Revolution.
1790	The Treaty of Wereloe ended the 1788–1790 Russo-Swedish War.
1784	Russian colonization of North America: Awa’uq Massacre: The Russian fur trader Grigory Shelikhov storms a Kodiak Island Alutiit refuge rock on Sitkalidak Island, killing 500+ Alutiit. The consequent subjugation of the Alutiiq on Kodiak Island allows Shelikhov to establish the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska at Three Saints Bay.
1720	The Spanish military Villasur expedition is defeated by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
1598	Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford: Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
1592	The first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis.
1385	Portuguese Crisis of 1383–85: Battle of Aljubarrota: Portuguese forces commanded by John I of Portugal defeat the Castilian army of John I of Castile.
1370	Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Karlovy Vary.
1352	War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.
1264	After tricking the Venetian galley fleet into sailing east to the Levant, the Genoese capture an entire Venetian trade convoy at the Battle of Saseno.
1183	Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan.[4]
1040	King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
74	A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan. The articles, enumerating the 1,127 offences (sexual debauchery, fiscal negligence, cronyism, etc.) that the ministers found the new emperor to have committed over the course of his 27-day rule, result in the unpreceden
29	Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.

Famous People Born on August 14

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Year	Name
1863	Ernest Thayer, American poet and author (d. 1940)
1930	Arthur Latham, British politician and Member of Parliament (d. 2016)
1971	Raoul Bova, Italian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1895	Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (d. 1973)
1889	Otto Tief, Estonian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1976)
1867	John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1933)
1959	Marcia Gay Harden, American actress
1945	Wim Wenders, German director, producer, and screenwriter
1953	James Horner, American composer and conductor (d. 2015)
1987	Tim Tebow, American football and baseball player and sportscaster

Famous People Deaths On August 14

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on August 14. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1905	Simeon Solomon, English soldier and painter (b. 1840)
1955	Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
1965	Vello Kaaristo, Estonian skier (b. 1911)
1852	Margaret Taylor, First Lady of the United States (b. 1788)
1870	David Farragut, American admiral (b. 1801)
1943	Joe Kelley, American baseball player and manager (b. 1871)
1992	John Sirica, American lawyer and judge (b. 1904)
1890	Michael J. McGivney, American priest, founded the Knights of Columbus (b. 1852)
1994	Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1973	Fred Gipson, American journalist and author (b. 1908)