About August 14
August 14, 2024 is the 227th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 139 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 168 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 14
- 1598 –Nine Years War: Battle of the Yellow Ford – Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
- 1842 –Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
- 1848 –Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1967 –UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
- 1972 –An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
- 1974 –The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins; 140,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriots become refugees. Elsewhere, 126 Turkish Cypriots are massacred.
- 1980 –Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
- 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.
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