What is August 14? : Abaara fun facts and uncommon knowledge

August 14

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

Events

1040 - King Duncan I of Scotland is killed in battle against his cousin and successor Macbeth
1385 - 1383-1385 Crisis: Castilians are defeated by Portuguese at the Battle of Aljubarrota.
1598 - Irish under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, destroy English force at the Battle of Yellow Ford.
1842 - Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma
1846 - The Cape Girardeau meteorite, a 2.3 kg chondrite type meteorite struck earth near the town of Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.
1848 - Oregon Territory organized by Act of U.S. Congress
1880 - Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, completed
1893 - France introduces motor vehicle registration
1896 - Gold discovered in the Yukon, leading to the Klondike Gold Rush.

1900 - Beijing occupied by joint European-Japanese-United States force in campaign to end Boxer Rebellion in China.
1901 - First powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
1908 - First Beauty Contest held in Folkestone, England
1912 - United States Marines invade Nicaragua to support the US-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya 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 acres (970 km²).
1935 - Social Security Act passed, creating a government pension system for the retired
1941 - World War II - Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims
1945 - Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II.
1947 - Pakistan gain independence from Britain
1967 - UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares Britain participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
1969 - British troops deployed in Northern Ireland
1971 - Bahrain declares its independence from Britain
1972 - An East German Ilyushin-62 crashed during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156
1980 - Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at Gdańsk (German:Danzig), Poland shipyards.
1994 - Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.

2003 - Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
2004 - Sales tax holiday in Massachusetts. All sales taxes are suspended on purchases of $2500.00 or less.

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