August
14
Independence
Day
Pakistan : August 14 1947
Events
August
14
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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