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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II – Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
- 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 –Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1969 –Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.
- 1973 –The Pakistani Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.
- 1974 –The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins; 140,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriots become refugees. Elsewhere, 126 Turkish Cypriots are massacred.
- 1994 –Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as “Carlos the Jackal,” is captured.
- 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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