About August 14
August 14, 2025 is the 226th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 139 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 187 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 14
- 1385 –Portuguese 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.
- 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.
- 1842 –Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
- 1848 –Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
- 1880 –Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
- 1893 –France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
- 1897 –Franco-Hova War: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
- 1901 –The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
- 1912 –United States Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
- 1916 –Romania declares war on Austro-Hungary, joining the Entente in World War I
- 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 acre.
- 1936 –Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
- 1937 –Chinese 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.
- 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).
- 1967 –UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
- 1972 –An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
- 1980 –Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
- 1994 –Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as “Carlos the Jackal,” is captured.
- 2003 –Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
- 2007 –The 2007 Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 796 people.
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