About August 14
August 14, 2023 is the 226th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 139 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 180 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).
- 1816 –the United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
- 1848 –Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
- 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.
- 1897 –Franco-Hova War: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 1959 –Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2006 –Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing.
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