August 14

August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining.

Events

• 410 - Alaric sacks Rome
• 1385 - Castilians[?] are defeated by Portuguese at Aljubarrota[?]
• 1598 - Irish under Hugh O'Neill[?], Earl of Tyrone, destroy English force at the Battle of Yellow Ford[?]
• 1842 - Seminole War ends, Seminole Indians forced from Florida to Oklahoma
• 1880 - Cologne Cathedral completed
• 1896 - Gold discovered in the Yukon
• 1900 - Peking relieved by international forces to end Boxer Rebellion
• 1912 - United States Marines invade Nicaragua
• 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 acres.
• 1935 - Social Security Act passed
• 1945 - Japan surrenders after two cities have been devastated by atomic bombs, ending World War II
• 1947 - Pakistan gains independence from Great Britain
• 1947 - India gains independence from Great Britain
• 1969 - British troops deployed in Northern Ireland
• 1971 - Bahrain declares its independence from Great Britain
• 1980 - Lech Walesa leads strikes at Gdansk, Poland shipyards

Births

• 1771 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet
• 1840 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing[?], psychologist (+ 1902)
• 1861 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress
• 1863 - Ernest Thayer, poet: Casey at the Bat (+ 1940)
• 1867 - John Galsworthy, author (+ 1933)
• 1910 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrete
• 1920 - Nehemiah Persoff[?], actor
• 1925 - Russell Baker[?], columnist
• 1926 - Lina Wertmüller[?], director
• 1935 - John Brodie[?], professional football player
• 1940 - Dash Crofts[?], musician
• 1941 - David Crosby, guitarist, songwriter
• 1945 - Steve Martin, comedian, actor
• 1945 - Wim Wenders, director
• 1946 - Susan Saint James[?], actress
• 1946 - Antonio Fargas[?], actor
• 1947 - Danielle Steel, novelist
• 1950 - Gary Larson, cartoonist
• 1952 - Debbie Meyer[?], Olympic gold medal swimmer
• 1959 - Earvin Magic Johnson, basketball player
• 1959 - Marcia Gay Harden[?], Academy Award winning actress
• 1960 - Sarah Brightman[?], singer
• 1961 - Susan Olsen, actress
• 1964 - Brannon Braga[?], writer, director
• 1965 - Emmanuelle Beart, Cesar Award winning actress
• 1966 - Halle Berry, Academy Award winning actress
• 1976 - April Edlow[?], African American artist and photographer

Deaths

• 1951 - William Randolph Hearst, newspaper magnate
• 1955 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress
• 1956 - Bertolt Brecht, composer, playwright
• 1958 - Frédéric Joliot, scientist
• 1972 - Oscar Levant[?], actor, composer, musician
• 1977 - Michael Widman[?], labor union organizer
• 1985 - Gale Sondergaard[?], actress
• 2002 - Dave Williams, singer for Drowning Pool[?]

Holidays and observances

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