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.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

1040 - Assassination of King Duncan of Scotland by 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
1848 - Oregon Territory organized by Act of 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 Jos� 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 km&sup2).
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
1947 - Pakistan and India gain independence from Britain at midnight, Pakistan commemorating the event on August 14 and India on August 15
1969 - British troops deployed in Northern Ireland
1971 - Bahrain declares its independence from Britain
1972 - An East German Ilyushin-62 crashed during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156
1980 - Lech Walesa leads strikes at Gdansk, Poland shipyards.
1994 - Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos", 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

1740 - Pope Pius VII (d. 1823)
1771 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet
1840 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, psychologist (d. 1902)
1861 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress
1863 - Ernest Thayer, poet: Casey at the Bat (d. 1940)
1867 - John Galsworthy, author (d. 1933)
1882 - Gisela Richter, art historian (d. 1972)
1910 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concr�te
1920 - Nehemiah Persoff, actor
1925 - Russell Baker, columnist
1926 - Ren� Goscinny, comic-strip author
1926 - Lina Wertm�ller, 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
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 B�art, Cesar Award-winning actress
1966 - Halle Berry, Academy Award-winning actress

Deaths

1433 - King John I of Portugal
1464 - Pope Pius II
1784 - Nathaniel Hone, painter
1943 - Joe Kelley, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1871)
1951 - William Randolph Hearst, newspaper magnate
1955 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress
1956 - Bertolt Brecht, composer, playwright
1958 - Fr�d�ric Joliot, scientist
1972 - Oscar Levant, actor, composer, musician
1977 - Michael Widman, labor union organizer
1984 - J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright
1985 - Gale Sondergaard, actress
2002 - Dave Williams, singer for Drowning Pool
2004 - Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 (b. 1911)

Holidays and observances

Pakistan - Pakistan Independence Day

August 13 - August 15 - July 14 - September 14 -- listing of all days

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