14th
August, on this day
410
Alaric sacks Rome
1248 Construction of Cologne
Cathedral begun
1385 Battle
of Aljubarrota : Portuguese defeat Castilians
at Aljubarrota, retain independence
1457 Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg)
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.
1756 French capture Fort
Oswego, NY
1765 Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)
1813 British warship Pelican attacks and captures US war brigantine
Argus
1842
Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma
1846 Henry
David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance
1848 Oregon Territory created
1862 Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with US president
1880 Cologne
Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, completed
-- the work having been started in 1248
1885 Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof
paint.
1893 France issues 1st driving licenses, included required test
1897 The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe
defenders in Madagascar.
1900 End of the two-month
Boxer Rebellion against European involvement in China when an
international force, including British, American, Italian and Japanese
troops, relieves the foreign legations which had been under siege
in Beijing
1901 The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his
Number 21.
1908 Race riot in Springfield, Illinois
1908 Staging of Britain's first international beauty
contest - at the Pier Hippodrome in Folkestone
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 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925
1917 China declares war on Germany and Austria at start of WW I
1921 Tannu Tuva,
later Tuvinian People's Republic is established as a completely independent
country (which is supported by Russia).
1928 The world's first scheduled television programmes are broadcast
by WRNY in New York
1932 10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles closes
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.
1936 1st Olympic basketball game (Berlin)
1937 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 were shot down by the Nationalist
Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases, hence, 14 August
has thus become acknowledged and celebrated as Chinese Air Force Day.
1941 Atlantic
Charter signed by FDR and Churchill
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 India granted independence within British Commonwealth
1947 Mildred
Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for $300,000
1947 Pakistan gains independence from Britain and joins the British
Commonwealth.
1948 14th Olympic games in London closes
1948 Australian cricketer Don Bradman plays his last Test match innings
at the Oval Cricket Ground in London. After receiving a standing ovation,
he is bowled out for nought - blinded, its claimed, by the tears in
his eyes
1958 KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99
1962 French and Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular
Tunnel
1962 US mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
1965 Beatles tape an appearance for the Ed
Sullivan Show
1966 1st US lunar orbiter begins orbiting the Moon
1967 UK Marine
Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate
radio illegal.
1969 British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland - to help quell
sectarian riots in Londonderry
1969 Keith Castle becomes the first British patient to receive a heart
transplant
1971 Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule
1971 British begin internment without trial in Northern Ireland
1972 East German Aeroflot Illyushin
62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156
1973 US bombs Cambodia
1973 The constitution
of 1973 comes into effect in Pakistan
1974 Congress authorises US citizens to own gold
1978 French TV announced a rating of "0" for a program about
an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleonic drama-67%,
Knockout-33%)
1979 Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hour duration
1979 Former MP John
Stonehouse is released from prison after being jailed for trying
to fake his own death
1979 15 yachtsmen are killed by a Force 10 gale during the Fastnet
Yacht Race
1980 Lech
Walesa leads strikes at Gdansk, Poland shipyards.
1984 IBM releases
MS-DOS version 3.0
1986 Pakistan politician Benazir
Bhutto, eldest daughter of former president Ali Bhutto who had
been executed for murder and corruption in 1979, is arrested and detained
in prison under the orders of President Zia
1991 Comedian Jackie
Mason marries his manager Jyll Rosenfeld (37)
1994
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos
the Jackal", is captured.
2003 Widescale
power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada
2005 Helios
Airways Flight 522 crashesinto a mountain north of Marathon and
Varnavas, Greece with 121 fatalities
2007 The 2007
Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 400 people.
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Birthdates which
occurred on 14th August :
1774 Meriwether
Lewis Charlottsville VA, capt of Lewis & Clark Expedition
1777 Hans Christian Oersted Den, physicist/chemist (View of Chemical
Law)
1802 Letitia Elizabeth Landon England, poet/novelist/socialite
1860 Ernest T Seton naturalist/painter/author (Buffalo Wind-1938)
1867 John Galsworthy England, author (Forsyte Saga-Nobel 1932)
1869 Armas J„rnefelt Vyborg Finland, composer (Berceuse)
19-- David Hallyday actor (He's My Girl)
19-- Lila Murillo Maricibo, spanish singer
1901 Sir James Pitman England, educator/publisher/phonetic speller
1903 John Ringling North circus director
1920 Nehemiah Persoff actor (Al Capone, Yentl)
1924 Georges Prˆtre Waziers France, conductor (NY Met)
1925 Russell Baker columnist/humorist (NY Times)
1926 Alice Ghostly Montana, actress (Bewitched, With 6 You Get Egg
Roll)
1926 Buddy Greco Phila Pa, singer (Away We Go, Broadway Open House)
1930 Earl Weaver St Louis Mo, manager (Balt Orioles 1968-82, 85-86)
1940 Dash Crofts Cisco Tx, singer (Seals & Crofts-Summer Breeze)
1941 Connie Smith Elkhart, Indiana, singer (Dream Painter, New Horizons)
1941 David Crosby rocker (Crosby, Stills & Nash-Southern Cross)
1942 Sandy Gilmour Montclair NJ, newscaster (Prime Time Sunday)
1943 Jon A McBride Charleston WV, Capt USN/astronaut (STS 41G)
1944 Robyn Smith Astaire jockey/wife of Fred Astaire
1945 Steve Martin Waco Tx, comedian (The Jerk, Man With 2 Brains)
1946 Antonio Fargas Bronx NY, actor (Huggy Bear-Starsky & Hutch)
1946 Larry Graham rocker (One in a million, you)
1946 Susan St James LA Cal, (MacMillan & Wife, Kate & Allie,
Name of Game)
1952 Debbie Meyer US, 200m/400m/800m freestyle swimmer (Oly-gold-1968)
1952 Mark C Lee Viroqua Wisconsin, Major USAF/astronaut (STS-30, sk:47)
1956 Sharon Bryant vocalist (Atlantic Starr - Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1957 Jackee (Harry) Winston-Salem NC, actress (Sandra-227)
1958 Earvin (Magic) Johnson NBA star (LA Lakers)
1961 Susan Olson actress (Cindy-Brady Bunch)
1965 Emmanuelle B‚art St Tropez France, actress (Manon of the
Spring)
1965 Lynette Falls Ridgewood NJ, Miss NJ-America-1991
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Deaths which occurred
on August 14th:
1936 Rainey Bethea hung, last US public execution
1951 William Randolph Hearst newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly
Hills
1958 Gladys L Presley mom of Elvis, dies at 46
1958 Mary Ritter Beard American historian, dies at 82
1972 Jules Romains French novelist, dies at 86
1972 Oscar Levant actor (American in Paris, Dance of Life), dies at
65
1982 Patrick Magee Irish actor, dies at 58
1985 Gale Sondergaard actress, dies at cerebral vascular thrombosis
1988 Enzo Ferrari Italy, sportscar manufacturer (Ferrari), dies at
90
1991 Douglas Kiker newscaster (NBC-TV), dies of a heart attack at
61
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