August 14
is the 226th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar (227th in
leap years), with 139 days remaining.
*
1040 - King
Duncan I of Scotland is killed in battle against his cousin and successor
Macbeth.
*
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. (Traditional
Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei).
*
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 the 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 strikes 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.
*
1885 -
Japan's first
patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
*
1893 - France introduces motor vehicle registration.
*
1900 - A joint
European-
Japanese-
United States force occupies
Beijing, in campaign to end the
Boxer Rebellion in
China.
*
1901 - The first claimed
powered flight, by
Gustave Whitehead in his
Number 21.
*
1908 - First
beauty contest held in
Folkestone, England
*
1911 -
United States Senate leaders
agree to rotate the office of
President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by
William P. Frye's death.
*
1912 -
United States Marines invade
Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after
José Santos Zelaya resigned three years earlier.
*
1921 -
Tannu Tuva,later
Tuvinian People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Russia).
*
1925 - The original Hetch Hetchy
Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.
*
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 -
United States Social Security Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired.
*
1936 -
Rainey Bethea is hanged in
Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public
execution in the United States.
*
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 and the
Emperor records the
Imperial Rescript on Surrender (
August 15 in
Japan standard time).
*
1947 -
Pakistan gains
Independence from the
British Indian Empire under the
administration of
United Kingdom and joins the
Commonwealth of
Dominions.
*
1967 -
UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore
pirate radio illegal.
*
1969 -
United Kingdom troops deploy in
Northern Ireland.
*
1971 -
Bahrain declares its independence from
United Kingdom.
*
1972 - An
East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from
East Berlin, killing 156.
*
1976 - The
Senegalese
political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized. PAI-Rénovation thus becomes the third legal party in the country.
*
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 or less.
*
2005 -
Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes north of Athens, killing the 121 on board.
*
1297 -
Emperor Hanazono,
Emperor of Japan (d.
1348)
*
1473 -
Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of
George, Duke of Clarence (d.
1541)
*
1575 -
Robert Hayman, English-born poet (d.
1629)
*
1586 -
William Hutchinson, Rhode Island colonist (d.
1642)
*
1599 -
Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (d.
1671)
*
1625 -
François de Harlay de Champvallon, Archbishop of Paris (d.
1695)
*
1642 -
Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d.
1723)
*
1653 -
Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (d.
1688)
*
1688 -
Frederick William I of Prussia (d.
1740)
*
1714 -
Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (d.
1789)
*
1740 -
Pope Pius VII (d.
1823)
*
1771 -
Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist (d.
1832)
*
1777 - King
Francis I of the Two Sicilies (d.
1830)
* 1777 -
Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist (d.
1851)
*
1840 -
Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist (d.
1902)
*
1851 -
Doc Holliday, American gambler (d.
1887)
*
1861 -
Herbert Putnam,
Librarian of Congress (d.
1955)
*
1863 -
Ernest Thayer, American poet (d.
1940)
*
1865 -
Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (d.
1952)
*
1866 -
Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (d.
1962)
*
1867 -
John Galsworthy, English writer,
Nobel laureate (d.
1933)
* 1867 -
Cupid Childs, American baseball player (d.
1912)
*
1876 -
Aleksandar Obrenović, King of Serbia
*
1881 -
Francis Ford (actor), American actor
*
1882 -
Gisela Richter, English art historian (d.
1972)
*
1910 -
Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (d.
1955)
*
1911 -
Shri Vethathiri Maharishi, Indian yogi
*
1913 -
Paul Dean, American baseball player (d.
1981)
*
1916 -
Wellington Mara, American Co-Owner of the New York Football Giants
*
1924 -
Georges Prêtre, French conductor
*
1925 -
Russell Baker, American columnist
*
1926 -
René Goscinny, French comic-strip author (d.
1977)
* 1926 -
Lina Wertmüller, Italian film director
*
1929 -
Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (d.
1971)
*
1930 -
Earl Weaver, American baseball manager
*
1933 -
Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist,
Nobel laureate*
1935 -
John Brodie, American football player
*
1940 -
Dash Crofts, American musician (
Seals and Crofts)
*
1941 -
David Crosby, American musician
* 1941 -
Connie Smith, American singer
*
1943 -
Jimmy Johnson, American football player
*
1945 -
Steve Martin, American comedian
* 1945 -
Wim Wenders, German-born film director
*
1946 -
Antonio Fargas, American actor
* 1946 -
Susan Saint James, American actress
* 1946 -
Larry Graham, American musician (
Sly & the Family Stone)
*
1947 -
Danielle Steel, American novelist
*
1950 -
Bob Backlund, American wrestler
* 1950 -
Gary Larson, American cartoonist
*
1952 -
Carl Lumbly, American actor
* 1952 -
Debbie Meyer, American swimmer
*
1953 -
James Horner, American composer
* 1953 -
Cliff Johnson, American computer game author
*
1954 -
Mark Fidrych, American baseball player
*
1956 -
Rusty Wallace, American race car driver
*
1957 -
Gino Hernandez, American wrestler
*
1959 -
Marcia Gay Harden, American actress
* 1959 -
Earvin "Magic" Johnson, American basketball player
*
1960 -
Sarah Brightman, English soprano
*
1961 -
Susan Olsen, American actress
* 1961 -
"Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert, American wrestler (d.
1995)
*
1964 -
Brannon Braga, American scriptwriter
*
1965 -
Emmanuelle Béart, French actress
*
1966 -
Halle Berry, American actress
*
1968 -
Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer
* 1968 -
Billy Mavreas, Greek-Canadian cartoonist
* 1968 -
Catherine Bell, American actress
*
1969 -
Stig Tøfting, Danish footballer
*
1973 -
Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer
* 1973 -
Jay-Jay Okocha, Nigerian footballer
* 1973 -
Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer
*
1974 -
Ana Matronic, singer (
Scissor Sisters)
* 1974 -
Christopher Gorham, American actor
*
1976 -
Steve Braun, Canadian actor
*
1977 -
Juan Pierre, American baseball player
*
1978 -
Kate Ritchie, Australian actress
*
1981 -
Matthew Etherington, English footballer
*
1983 -
Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-born tennis player
*
1983 -
Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-born actress
*
1986 -
Terin Humphrey, American gymnast
*
582 -
Tiberius II Constantine,
Byzantine Emperor*
1167 -
Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne
*
1204 -
Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (b.
1182)
*
1390 -
John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b.
1364)
*
1430 -
Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b.
1404)
*
1433 - King
John I of Portugal (b.
1357)
*
1464 -
Pope Pius II (b.
1405)
*
1573 -
Saito Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b.
1548)
*
1691 -
Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel (b.
1630)
*
1704 -
Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader (b.
1675)
*
1727 -
William Croft, English composer (b.
1678)
*
1774 -
Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician (b.
1716)
*
1784 -
Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b.
1718)
*
1856 -
Constant Prévost, French geologist (b.
1787)
*
1860 -
André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b.
1774)
*
1874 -
Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (b.
1821)
*
1905 -
Simeon Solomon, British artist (b.
1840)
*
1938 -
Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer (b.
1876)
*
1941 -
Paul Sabatier, French chemist,
Nobel laureate (b.
1854)
*1941 - Saint
Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (b.
1894)
*
1943 -
Joe Kelley, American baseball player (b.
1871)
*
1951 -
William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper magnate (b.
1863)
*
1955 -
Herbert Putnam,
Librarian of Congress (b.
1861)
*
1956 -
Bertolt Brecht, German writer (b.
1898)
*
1958 -
Frédéric Joliot, French physicist,
Nobel laureate (b.
1900)
*
1972 -
Oscar Levant, American actor (b.
1906)
* 1972 -
Pierre Brasseur, French actor (b.
1905)
* 1972 -
Jules Romains, French author (b.
1885)
*
1978 -
Nicolas Bentley, British writer (b.
1907)
*
1980 -
Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (b.
1960)
*
1981 -
Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b.
1894)
*
1984 -
J. B. Priestley, English playwright (b.
1894)
* 1984 -
Spud Davis, American baseball player (b.
1904)
*
1985 -
Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b.
1899)
*
1988 -
Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b.
1898)
*
1992 -
John Sirica, American judge (b.
1904)
*
1994 -
Elias Canetti, British-Austrian novelist (b.
1905)
*
1996 -
Tom Mees, American sportscaster (b.
1949)
*
1999 -
Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (b.
1918)
*
2000 -
Alain Fournier, French-born computer graphics researcher (b.
1943)
*
2002 -
Dave Williams, American singer (
Drowning Pool) (b.
1972)
*
2003 -
Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b.
1929)
*
2004 -
Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born writer,
Nobel laureate (b.
1911)
*
2005 -
Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (b.
1932)
*
Morocco -
Allegiance of
Oued Eddahab or
Río de Oro*
RC saints -
Maximilian Kolbe (Polish Franciscan priest martyred by Nazis in
1941)
*
Pakistan -
Independence Day (From the
Indian Empire and from the
British colonialist and
imperialists under the foreign control of the
United Kingdom, 1947)
*
Paraguay -
Flag Day*
United States - National
Code talkers Day
*
United States - National
Creamsicles Day
*
Roman Catholicism - the feasts of several saints:
**St.
Eusebius of Rome**St.
Maximilian Kolbe*
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