What happened on August 14? There are more than 287 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About August 14
August 14 is the 227th day of the year 2024. There are 139 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday. This day falls under the 33rd week of the year 2024.
On this day in Delphi, Indiana 46923 sunrise will occur at 05:55 AM and sunset will occur at 07:46 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Leo. The modern birthstone for this month is Peridot while the mystical birthstone is Diamond.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 168 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For August 14
- 1183Taira 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).
- 1385Portuguese Crisis of 1383–1385: Battle of Aljubarrota – Portuguese forces commanded by King João I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King Juan I.
- 1592Imjin War: Battle of Hansando Admiral Yi Sun-sin decisively defeats the Japanese Navy at Hasan Island.
- 1598Nine Years War: Battle of the Yellow Ford – Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
- 1816the United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
- 1842Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
- 1848Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
- 1880Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
- 1885Japan’s first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
- 1888An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan’s “The Lost Chord”, one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison’s phonograph in London.
- 1893France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
- 1897Franco-Hova War: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
- 1900The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
- 1901The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
- 1911United 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.
- 1912United States Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
- 1916Romania declares war on Austro-Hungary, joining the Entente in World War I
- 1921Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian People’s Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
- 1933Loggers 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 acre.
- 1935United States Social Security Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired.
- 1936Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
- 1937Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.
- 1941World War II – Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
- 1945Japan 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).
- 1947Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1959Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
- 1967UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
- 1969Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.
- 1972An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
- 1973The Pakistani Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.
- 1974The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins; 140,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriots become refugees. Elsewhere, 126 Turkish Cypriots are massacred.
- 1980Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
- 1987All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.
- 1994Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as “Carlos the Jackal,” is captured.
- 1996Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
- 2003Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
- 2006Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing.
- 2007The 2007 Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 796 people.
- 2010The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.
Who Were Born On August 14?
- 1297Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan (d. 1348)
- 1473Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence (d. 1541)
- 1479Princess Catherine of York (d. 1527)
- 1575Robert Hayman, English-born poet (d. 1629)
- 1586William Hutchinson, Rhode Island colonist (d. 1642)
- 1599Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (d. 1671)
- 1625François de Harlay de Champvallon, Archbishop of Paris (d. 1695)
- 1642Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723)
- 1653Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (d. 1688)
- 1688Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (d. 1740)
- 1714Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (d. 1789)
- 1727Princess Anne Henriette of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1752)
- 1727Princess Marie Louise Élisabeth of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1759)
- 1740Pope Pius VII (d. 1823)
- 1758Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (d. 1835)
- 1777Francis I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1830)
- 1777Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist (d. 1851)
- 1817Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (d. 1874)
- 1840Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist (d. 1902)
- 1847Robert Comtesse, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1922)
- 1851Doc Holliday, American gambler and dentist (d. 1887)
- 1851Yannoulis Chalepas, Greek sculptor (d. 1938)
- 1857Max Wagenknecht, German composer (d. 1922)
- 1863Ernest Thayer, American poet (d. 1940)
- 1865Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (d. 1952)
- 1866Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (d. 1962)
- 1867Cupid Childs, American baseball player (d. 1912)
- 1867John Galsworthy, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1933)
- 1871Guangxu Emperor, Qing Emperor of China (d. 1908)
- 1876Aleksandar Obrenović, King of Serbia (d. 1903)
- 1881Francis Ford, American actor (d. 1953)
- 1882Gisela Richter, British-born art historian (d. 1972)
- 1892Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist (d. 1988)
- 1893Francis Dvornik, Czech historian (d. 1975)
- 1895Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (d. 1973)
- 1901Alice Rivaz, Swiss writer (d. 1998)
- 1908Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (d. 1984)
- 1910Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (d. 1995)
- 1910Willy Ronis, French photographer (d. 2009)
- 1913Paul Dean, American baseball player (d. 1981)
- 1915B.A. Santamaria, Australian political activist and journalist (d. 1998)
- 1916Fumio Fujimura, Japanese baseball player (d. 1992)
- 1916Wellington Mara, Co-Owner of the New York Giants (d. 2005)
- 1923Diodoros, Greek Patriarch of Jerusalem (d. 2000)
- 1924Georges Prêtre, French conductor
- 1924Holger Juul Hansen, Danish actor
- 1924Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa Lama, Tibetan religious figure (d. 1981)
- 1924Sverre Fehn, Norwegian architect (d. 2009)
- 1925Russell Baker, American columnist
- 1926Alice Ghostley, American actress (d. 2007)
- 1926Buddy Greco, American singer and pianist
- 1926Lina Wertmüller, Italian film director
- 1926René Goscinny, French comic-strip author (d. 1977)
- 1929Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (d. 1971)
- 1930Earl Weaver, American baseball manager
- 1932Lee Hoffman, American author (d. 2007)
- 1933Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate
- 1935John Brodie, American football player
- 1936Trevor Bannister, British actor (d. 2011)
- 1940Dash Crofts, American musician
- 1940Galen Hall, American football coach
- 1941Connie Smith, American singer
- 1941David Crosby, American musician
- 1941Lynne Cheney, American political figure
- 1942Jackie Oliver, British Formula One driver
- 1942Lionel Morton, musician and television presenter
- 1945Steve Martin, American actor and comedian
- 1945Wim Wenders, German-born film director
- 1946Antonio Fargas, American actor
- 1946Larry Graham, American musician
- 1946Susan Saint James, American actress
- 1947Bruce Nash, American television producer
- 1947Danielle Steel, American novelist
- 1947Jiro Taniguchi, Japanese manga artist
- 1947Maddy Prior, British folk singer
- 1947Peter Christian, British actor
- 1948Terry Adams, American musician (NRBQ)
- 1949Bob Backlund, American wrestler
- 1949Morten Olsen, Danish footballer
- 1950Gary Larson, American cartoonist (The Far Side)
- 1951Norbert Hofmann, German footballer
- 1951Peter Blegvad, American musician (Slapp Happy)
- 1951Slim Dunlap, American guitarist and singer-songwriter
- 1952Carl Lumbly, American actor
- 1952Debbie Meyer, American swimmer
- 1953Cliff Johnson, American computer game author
- 1953James Horner, American composer
- 1954Mark Fidrych, American baseball player (d. 2009)
- 1954Stanley McChrystal, American general
- 1956Andy King, English footballer
- 1956Jackée Harry, American actress
- 1956Johnny Lever, Indian actor
- 1956Rusty Wallace, American race car driver
- 1957Gino Hernandez, American professional wrestler (d. 1986)
- 1957Peter Costello, Australian politician
- 1958Bobby Eaton, American professional wrestler
- 1959Frank Brickowski, American basketball player
- 1959Magic Johnson, American basketball player
- 1959Marcia Gay Harden, American actress
- 1960Cecilia Gasdia, Italian soprano
- 1960Fred Roberts, Basketball player
- 1960Sarah Brightman, British soprano
- 1960Sharon Bryant, American R&B singer
- 1961“Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert, American wrestler (d. 1995)
- 1961Susan Olsen, American actress
- 1962Mark Gubicza, American baseball player
- 1962Rameez Raja, Pakistani cricketer
- 1964Neal Anderson, American football player
- 1965Brannon Braga, writer and executive producer of 24, Star Trek, and FlashForward
- 1965Emmanuelle Béart, French actress
- 1965Mark Collins, English guitarist
- 1966Halle Berry, American actress
- 1966Karl Petter Løken, Norwegian footballer
- 1967Erik Gandini, Italian-Swedish director
- 1968Adrian Lester, British actor
- 1968Billy Mavreas, Greek-Canadian cartoonist
- 1968Catherine Bell, American actress
- 1968Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer
- 1968Pravin Amre, Indian cricketer
- 1969DJ Uncle Al, American hip-hop DJ (d. 2001)
- 1969Stig Tøfting, Danish footballer
- 1969Tracy Caldwell, American astronaut
- 1970Kevin Cadogan, guitarist and songwriter
- 1971Mark Loretta, American baseball player
- 1971Pramodya Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1971Raoul Bova, Italian actor
- 1972Jay Manuel, Canadian make-up artist
- 1972Yu Jae-seok, South Korean entertainer
- 1973Daisuke Ishiwatari, Japanese game developer and composer
- 1973Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer
- 1973Jay-Jay Okocha, Nigerian footballer
- 1973Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer
- 1974Ana Matronic, American singer (Scissor Sisters)
- 1974Christopher Gorham, American actor
- 1974Chucky Atkins, American basketball player
- 1974Martin Bulloch, Scottish musician (Mogwai)
- 1975Mike Vrabel, American football player
- 1976Alex Albrecht, American actor
- 1976Maya Nasri, Lebanese actress and singer
- 1976Steve Braun, Canadian actor
- 1977Ed Harcourt, UK singer, songwriter
- 1977Elisavet Mystakidou, Greek taekwondo practitioner and Olympic medalist
- 1977Juan Pierre, American baseball player
- 1978Anastasios Kyriakos, Greek footballer
- 1978Greg Rawlinson, New Zealand All Black rugby player
- 1978Kate Ritchie, Australian actress
- 1979Paul Burgess, Australian athlete
- 1979Yoichiro Morikawa, Japanese film director
- 1980Estrella Morente, Spanish flamenco singer
- 1980Roy Williams, American football player
- 1981Earl Barron, American basketball player
- 1981Julius Jones, American football player
- 1981Kofi Kingston, Ghanaian professional wrestler
- 1981Matthew Etherington, English footballer
- 1983Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian/British tennis player
- 1983Leo Núñez, Dominican baseball player
- 1983Mila Kunis, Ukrainian/American actress
- 1983Spencer Pratt,American socialite
- 1984Clay Buchholz, American baseball player
- 1984Giorgio Chiellini, Italian footballer
- 1984Josh Gorges, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1984Nick Grimshaw, British radio DJ and television presenter
- 1984Robin Söderling, Swedish tennis player
- 1985Christian Gentner, German footballer
- 1985Digão, Brazilian footballer
- 1985Shea Weber, Canadian hockey player
- 1986Cameron Jerome, English footballer
- 1986Terin Humphrey, American gymnast
- 1987Chrystina Sayers, American singer and dancer (Girlicious)
- 1987James Buckley, English actor
- 1987Tim Tebow, American football player and winner of 2007 Heisman trophy
- 1988Shahd Barmada, Syrian singer
- 1989Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1990Jaydee Bixby, Canadian singer
Who Died On August 14?
- 582Tiberius II Constantine
- 1040Duncan I of Scotland
- 1167Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne
- 1204Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (b. 1182)
- 1390John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364)
- 1430Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)
- 1433King John I of Portugal (b. 1357)
- 1464Pope Pius II (b. 1405)
- 1573Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b. 1548)
- 1691Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel (b. 1630)
- 1704Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader (b. 1675)
- 1727William Croft, English composer (b. 1678)
- 1774Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician (b. 1716)
- 1784Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718)
- 1856Constant Prévost, French geologist (b. 1787)
- 1860André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b. 1774)
- 1870David Farragut, American officer of the United States Navy (b. 1801)
- 1874Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (b. 1821)
- 1905Simeon Solomon, British artist (b. 1840)
- 1909William Stanley, American inventor and engineer (b. 1829)
- 1926John H. Moffitt, American politician (b. 1843)
- 1928Alfred Henschke, German writer, poet (b. 1890)
- 1938Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer (b. 1876)
- 1941Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1854)
- 1941Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (b. 1894)
- 1943Joe Kelley, American baseball player (b. 1871)
- 1943Lore Berger, Swiss writer (b. 1921)
- 1951William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper magnate (b. 1863)
- 1954Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek resistance figure (b. 1901)
- 1955Herbert Putnam, American librarian (b. 1861)
- 1956Bertolt Brecht, German writer (b. 1898)
- 1958Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
- 1958Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat (b. 1873)
- 1964Johnny Burnette, American Rockabilly singer (b. 1934)
- 1965Vello Kaaristo, Estonian cross-country skier (b. 1911)
- 1966Tip Snooke, South African cricketer (b. 1881)
- 1967Bob Anderson, British racing driver (b. 1931)
- 1972Jules Romains, French author (b. 1885)
- 1972Oscar Levant, American actor (b. 1906)
- 1978Nicolas Bentley, British writer (b. 1907)
- 1980Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (b. 1960)
- 1981Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (b. 1910)
- 1981Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894)
- 1982Patrick Magee, Irish actor (b. 1922)
- 1984J. B. Priestley, British playwright (b. 1894)
- 1984Spud Davis, American baseball player (b. 1904)
- 1985Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)
- 1988Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898)
- 1988Robert Calvert, South African singer (Hawkwind) (b. 1945)
- 1988Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (b. 1939)
- 1989Ricky Berry, American basketball player (b. 1964)
- 1991Alberto Crespo, Argentine racing driver (b. 1920)
- 1992John Sirica, American judge (b. 1904)
- 1992Tony Williams, American singer (The Platters) (b. 1928)
- 1994Elias Canetti, British-born Austrian novelist (b. 1905)
- 1996Solomos Solomou, Greek Cypriot refugee (murdered) (b. 1970)
- 1996Tom Mees, American sportscaster (b. 1949)
- 1999Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (b. 1918)
- 2000Alain Fournier, French-born computer graphics researcher (b. 1943)
- 2000Cuan McCarthy, South African cricketer (b. 1929)
- 2001Earl Anthony, professional bowler (b. 1938)
- 2002Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (b. 1972)
- 2003Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
- 2004Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911)
- 2004Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-born British politician (b. 1918)
- 2005Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (b. 1932)
- 2006Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)
- 2007Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 53rd Yokozuna (b. 1940)
- 2007Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli politician (b. 1939)
- 2007Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (b. 1913)
- 2010Herman Leonard, American photographer (b. 1923)
- 2010Rallis Kopsidis, Greek writer (b. 1929)
- 2010Tahar Wattar, Algerian novelist (b. 1936)
- 2011Shammi Kapoor, Indian actor and director (b. 1931)
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