
August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining. ==Events== *1040 - King Duncan I of Scotland is killed in battle against his cousin and successor Macbeth of Scotland *1385 - 1383-1385 Crisis: Castilians are defeated by Portugal at the Battle of Aljubarrota. *1598 - Ireland under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, destroy England force at the Battle of Yellow Ford. *1842 - Indian Wars: Seminole Wars ends, with the Seminole (ribe) 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, Missouri in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. *1848 - Oregon Territory organized by Act of Congress of the United States *1880 - Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, completed *1893 - France introduces motor vehicle registration *1900 - Beijing occupied by joint European-Japan-United States force in campaign to end Boxer Rebellion in China. *1901 - First aviation, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21 (plane). *1908 - First Beauty Contest held in Folkestone, England *1912 - United States U.S. 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 1_E8_m%B2. *1935 - Social Security (United States) 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 Japanese Instrument of Surrender in World War II. *1947 - Pakistan gain independence from the United Kingdom *1967 - United Kingdom 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 Germany Ilyushin-62 crashed during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156 *1980 - Lech Walesa leads strikes at Gdansk, Poland shipyards. * 1994 - Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured. *2003 - 2003 North America 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, Scotland 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 - Vethathiri, founder of [http://vethathiri.org World Community Service Center] *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 (football coach), 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 - 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 (chemist), 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 - Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1911) ==Holidays and observances== *Pakistan - Pakistan Independence Day == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/14 BBC: On This Day] ---- August 13 - August 15 - July 14 - September 14 -- historical anniversaries simple: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== *1040 - King Duncan I of Scotland is killed in battle against his cousin and successor Macbeth of Scotland *1385 - 1383-1385 Crisis: Castilians are defeated by Portugal at the Battle of Aljubarrota. *1598 - Ireland under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, destroy England force at the Battle of Yellow Ford. *1842 - Indian Wars: Seminole Wars ends, with the Seminole (ribe) 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, Missouri in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. *1848 - Oregon Territory organized by Act of Congress of the United States *1880 - Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, completed *1893 - France introduces motor vehicle registration *1900 - Beijing occupied by joint European-Japan-United States force in campaign to end Boxer Rebellion in China. *1901 - First aviation, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21 (plane). *1908 - First Beauty Contest held in Folkestone, England *1912 - United States U.S. 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 1_E8_m%B2. *1935 - Social Security (United States) 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 Japanese Instrument of Surrender in World War II. *1947 - Pakistan gain independence from the United Kingdom *1967 - United Kingdom 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 Germany Ilyushin-62 crashed during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156 *1980 - Lech Walesa leads strikes at Gdansk, Poland shipyards. * 1994 - Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured. *2003 - 2003 North America 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, Scotland 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 - Vethathiri, founder of [http://vethathiri.org World Community Service Center] *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 (football coach), 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 - 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 (chemist), 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 - Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1911) ==Holidays and observances== *Pakistan - Pakistan Independence Day == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/14 BBC: On This Day] ---- August 13 - August 15 - July 14 - September 14 -- historical anniversaries simple:August 14
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