What are the important events that happened on August 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
August 14: Facts & Myths About This Day
August 14 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 1, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,723,593,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaicosaheptagon’ day.
Leo is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,254 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 14 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1888 –An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan’s “The Lost Chord”, one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison’s phonograph in London.
- 1893 –France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
- 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).
- 1980 –Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
- 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.
Who were born on August 14?
- 1863 –Ernest Thayer, American poet (d. 1940)
- 1866 –Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (d. 1962)
- 1892 –Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist (d. 1988)
- 1936 –Trevor Bannister, British actor (d. 2011)
- 1950 –Gary Larson, American cartoonist (The Far Side)
- 1952 –Carl Lumbly, American actor
- 1956 –Jackée Harry, American actress
- 1960 –Fred Roberts, Basketball player
- 1981 –Matthew Etherington, English footballer
- 1984 –Giorgio Chiellini, Italian footballer
Who died on August 14?
- 1464 –Pope Pius II (b. 1405)
- 1727 –William Croft, English composer (b. 1678)
- 1784 –Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718)
- 1905 –Simeon Solomon, British artist (b. 1840)
- 1941 –Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1854)
- 1985 –Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)
- 1996 –Solomos Solomou, Greek Cypriot refugee (murdered) (b. 1970)
- 2004 –Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-born British politician (b. 1918)
- 2006 –Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)
- 2007 –Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (b. 1913)
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