About August 14
August 14, 2021 is the 226th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 139 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 171 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.
- 1592 –Imjin War: Battle of Hansando Admiral Yi Sun-sin decisively defeats the Japanese Navy at Hasan Island.
- 1816 –the United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
- 1842 –Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
- 1848 –Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
- 1888 –An 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.
- 1897 –Franco-Hova War: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
- 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.
- 1947 –Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1967 –UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
- 1969 –Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.
- 1972 –An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2010 –The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.
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