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
- 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.
- 1880 –Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
- 1900 –The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
- 1912 –United States Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
- 1936 –Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
- 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.
- 1996 –Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
- 2007 –The 2007 Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 796 people.
Who were born on August 14?
- 1777 –Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist (d. 1851)
- 1851 –Doc Holliday, American gambler and dentist (d. 1887)
- 1882 –Gisela Richter, British-born art historian (d. 1972)
- 1945 –Wim Wenders, German-born film director
- 1956 –Jackée Harry, American actress
- 1965 –Emmanuelle Béart, French actress
- 1973 –Jay-Jay Okocha, Nigerian footballer
- 1984 –Giorgio Chiellini, Italian footballer
- 1985 –Christian Gentner, German footballer
- 1985 –Shea Weber, Canadian hockey player
Who died on August 14?
- 1433 –King John I of Portugal (b. 1357)
- 1860 –André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b. 1774)
- 1938 –Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer (b. 1876)
- 1958 –Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
- 1978 –Nicolas Bentley, British writer (b. 1907)
- 1980 –Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (b. 1960)
- 1981 –Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (b. 1910)
- 1989 –Ricky Berry, American basketball player (b. 1964)
- 2004 –Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911)
- 2007 –Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (b. 1913)
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