Independence
day
Pakistan Events
of the day
1183 – Taira no Munemori and the
Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the
three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan
to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan. (Traditional
Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month
of the Second Year of Juei).
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.
1415 – Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces
to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta.
1592 – Imjin War: Battle of Hansando Admiral Yi
Sun-sin decisively defeats the Japanese Navy at
Hasan Island.
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.
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.
1880 – Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most
famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor
of a rust-proof paint.
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.
1897 – Franco-Hova Wars: The town of Anosimena is
captured by French troops from Menabe defenders
in Madagascar.
1900 – The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing,
in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion
in China.
1901 – The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave
Whitehead in his Number 21.
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.
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).
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 – United States Social Security Act passes,
creating a government pension system for the retired.
1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky
in the last public execution in the United States.
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.
1969 – Operation Banner: British troops are deployed
in Northern Ireland.
1971 – Bahrain declares independence as the State
of Bahrain.
1972 – An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during
takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
1973 – The Pakistani Constitution of 1973 comes
into effect.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Maximilian Kolbe
August 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Independence Day, celebrates the day on which Pakistan
was made an independent country based on border
lines created by the British during the end of their
rule of India in 1947. (Pakistan)
Pramuka Day (Indonesia)
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