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
- 1183 –Taira 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).
- 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.
- 1885 –Japan’s first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
- 1893 –France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
- 1901 –The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
- 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 –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
- 1921 –Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian People’s Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
- 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.
- 1969 –Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.
- 1974 –The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins; 140,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriots become refugees. Elsewhere, 126 Turkish Cypriots are massacred.
- 1980 –Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
- 1987 –All 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.
- 1996 –Greek 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.
- 2003 –Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
- 2006 –Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing.
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