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This day in history: 14 August

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305 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 14 August.
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2023: Former U.S. president Donald Trump is charged in Georgia along with 18 others in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election in that state, his fourth indictment of 2023.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Arnold of Soissons

Christian feast day: Domingo Ibáñez de Erquicia

Christian feast day: Eusebius of Rome

Christian feast day: Fachtna of Rosscarbery

Christian feast day: Jonathan Myrick Daniels (Episcopal Church)

Christian feast day: Maria Elisabetta Renzi

Christian feast day: Martyrs of Otranto

Christian feast day: Maximilian Kolbe

Falklands Day is the celebration of the first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis in 1592.

Independence Day celebrates the independence of Pakistan from the United Kingdom in 1947.

National Navajo Code Talkers Day is a holiday in the United States honoring Navajo code talkers in the military.

Partition Horrors Remembrance Day commemorates the victims and sufferings of people during the Partition of India in 1947.

Events

2023Former U.S. president Donald Trump is charged in Georgia along with 18 others in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election in that state, his fourth indictment of 2023.

2022An explosion destroys a market in Armenia, killing six people and injuring dozens.

2021A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis.

2018The collapse of the Ponte Morandi bridge in Genoa, Italy, left 16 people injured and 43 people killed.

2015The U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–United States relations were broken off.

2013Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.

2013UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing both crew members on board.

2007The Kahtaniya bombings kill at least 500 people.

2006Lebanon War: A ceasefire takes effect three days after the United Nations Security Council's approval of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, formally ending hostilities between Lebanon and Israel.

2006Sri Lankan Civil War: Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lanka Air Force air strike.

2005Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.

2003A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.

1996Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.

1994Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.

1980Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.

1974Turkey launches the second phase of the invasion of Cyprus, which eventually resulted in the Turkish occupation of 37% of Cyprus.

1972An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany killing 156 people.

1971Bahrain declares independence from Britain.

1969The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland as political and sectarian violence breaks out, marking the start of the 37-year Operation Banner.

1967UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act 1967 declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.

1959Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.

1948An Idaho Department of Fish and Game program to relocate beavers known as Beaver drop occurred. This program relocated beavers from Northwestern Idaho to Central Idaho by airplane and then parachuting the beavers into the Chamberlain Basin.

1947Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire as the Dominion of Pakistan, due to the partition of India.

1941World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.

1936Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.

1935Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.

1933Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2) of land.

1921Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).

1920The 1920 Summer Olympics, having started four months earlier, officially open in Antwerp, Belgium, with the newly adopted Olympic flag and the Olympic oath being raised and taken at the Opening Ceremony for the first time in Olympic history

1917World War I: The Republic of China, which had heretofore been shipping labourers to Europe to assist in the war effort, officially declares war on the Central Powers, although it will continue to send to Europe labourers instead of combatan

1914World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive.

1901The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.

1900Battle of Peking: The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.

1893France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.

1885Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.

1880Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.

1848Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.

1848Pica Law (Legge Pica), a form of martial law, is established as the Italian government passes this anti-brigandage law to suppress resistance to the Unification of Italy.

1842American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida.

1816The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.

Born on this day

2007Franco Mastantuono, Argentine footballer

2004Marsai Martin, American actress and producer

2000Johan Rojas, Dominican baseball player

1998Doechii, American rapper

1997Greet Minnen, Belgian tennis player

1995Léolia Jeanjean, French tennis player

1994Maya Jama, British TV presenter.

1991Giovanny Gallegos, Mexican baseball player

1991Richard Freitag, German ski jumper

1989Ander Herrera, Spanish footballer

1989Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player

1987David Peralta, Venezuelan baseball player

1987Johnny Gargano, American wrestler

1987Tim Tebow, American football and baseball player and sportscaster

1986Braian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer

1985Christian Gentner, German footballer

1985Shea Weber, Canadian ice hockey player

1984Clay Buchholz, American baseball player

1984Eva Birnerová, Czech tennis player

1984Giorgio Chiellini, Italian footballer

1984Josh Gorges, Canadian ice hockey player

1984Nick Grimshaw, English radio and television host

1984Nicola Slater, Scottish tennis player

1984Robin Söderling, Swedish tennis player

1983Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player (died 2014)

1983Lamorne Morris, American actor and comedian

1983Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-American actress

1983Spencer Pratt, American television personality

1981Earl Barron, American basketball player

1981Julius Jones, American football player

1981Kofi Kingston, Ghanaian-American wrestler

1981Paul Gallen, Australian rugby league player, boxer, and sportscaster

1981Scott Lipsky, American tennis player

1980Peter Malinauskas, Australian politician, 47th Premier of South Australia

1979Paul Burgess, Australian pole vaulter

1978Anastasios Kyriakos, Greek footballer

1978Greg Rawlinson, New Zealand rugby player

1977Juan Pierre, American baseball player

1976Fabrizio Donato, Italian triple jumper

1975Mike Vrabel, American football player

Died on this day

2025Mike Castle, American politician, 69th Governor of Delaware (born 1939)

2024Gena Rowlands, American actress (born 1930)

2023Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, Bangladeshi Islamic lecturer, politician (born 1940)

2021Michael Aung-Thwin, American historian and scholar of Burmese and Southeast Asian history (born 1946)

2020Angela Buxton, British tennis player (born 1934)

2020James R. Thompson, American politician, Governor of Illinois (born 1936)

2020Julian Bream, English classical guitarist and lutenist (born 1933)

2019Polly Farmer, Australian footballer and coach (born 1935)

2018Jill Janus, American singer (born 1975)

2016Fyvush Finkel, American actor (born 1922)

2015Bob Johnston, American songwriter and producer (born 1932)

2014George V. Hansen, American politician (born 1930)

2014Leonard Fein, American journalist and academic, co-founded Moment Magazine (born 1934)

2013Jack Germond, American journalist and author (born 1928)

2012Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (born 1919)

2012Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian chess player (born 1923)

2012Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian lawyer and politician, Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1945)

2010Herman Leonard, American photographer (born 1923)

2007Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer (born 1913)

2006Bruno Kirby, American actor (born 1949)

2004Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born American novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)

2004Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (born 1918)

2003Helmut Rahn, German footballer (born 1929)

2002Larry Rivers, American painter and sculptor (born 1923)

1999Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1918)

1996Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (born 1912)

1994Alice Childress, American actress, playwright, and author (born 1912)

1994Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)

1992John Sirica, American lawyer and judge (born 1904)

1991Alberto Crespo, Argentinian racing driver (born 1920)

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