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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1848 –Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
- 1897 –Franco-Hova War: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
- 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.
- 1916 –Romania declares war on Austro-Hungary, joining the Entente in World War I
- 1921 –Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian People’s Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
- 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.
- 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.
- 1994 –Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as “Carlos the Jackal,” is captured.
- 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.
- 2007 –The 2007 Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 796 people.
- 2010 –The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.
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