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).
- 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.
- 1880 –Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
- 1885 –Japan’s first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
- 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.
- 1900 –The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
- 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.
- 1921 –Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian People’s Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
- 1935 –United States Social Security Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired.
- 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).
- 1947 –Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1959 –Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
- 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.
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