Historical Events on August 14

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• 554 Ravenna becomes seat of Byzantine military governor in Italy

• 1183 Taira no Munemori and Taira clan take young Emperor Antoku and 3 sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape Minamoto clan (Traditional Japanese date: 25th Day of the 7th Month of the 2nd Year of Juei).

• 1385 Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota, retain independence
• 1395 Utrecht bishop Frederik of Blankenheim occupies Coevorden
• 1431 Battle of Domažlice: German imperial army takes flight and flees after hearing the Hussites sing their battle chorale - part of the Hussite crusades [1]
• 1457 Johann Fust and Peter Schöffler publish the Mainz Psalter, the first printed book with a complete date
• 1457 Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg)

• 1551 Ottoman fleet under Dragut captures Tripoli from The Knights of Malta after a six-day bombardment
• 1559 Spanish explorer de Luna lands in Pensacola Bay, Fla

• 1590 Publication of Christopher Marlowe's play "Tamburlaine the Great" is recorded by Stationers' Company of London (likely first performed 1587)

• 1624 Dutch Nassau fleet abandons its blockade of the Spanish-held port of Callao, near Lima in Peru after three months [1]
• 1636 Spanish troops occupy Corbie at Amiens
• 1642 Able Tasman's ships Heemskerck and Zeehaen depart out from Batavia to search for Terra Australis (will be first Europeans to find Tasmania and New Zealand)
• 1678 Battle of Mons - French repulse William of Orange
• 1743 Prussian army occupies Saksen, beginning 2nd Silezian War
• 1756 French capture Fort Oswego, NY
• 1758 Battle of Zorndorf: Prussia beats Russia, 1000s killed
• 1762 English fleet occupies Havana
• 1765 Massachusetts colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)
• 1782 Suriname forbids selling slave mothers without their babies
• 1790 Sweden & Russia sign Peace of Verela
• 1813 British warship Pelican attacks & captures US war brigantine Argus
• 1816 Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha
• 1820 1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC
• 1824 General Lafayette returns to US
• 1825 Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out
• 1842 Second Seminole War declared over by US Army Colonel Worth, after nearly 7 years; more than 3000 Seminole Nation survivors re-located from Florida to Oklahoma, only about 300 allowed to remain [1]

• 1846 The Cape Girardeau meteorite, a 2.3 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes near the town of Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.
• 1848 Oregon Territory created
• 1861 79th NY troops mutinies
• 1861 Martial Law is declared at St Louis, Missouri, due to pro-secession sentiment which surged throughout Missouri after the Battle of Wilson's Creek

• 1864 -16] Confederate General Joe Wheeler besieges Dalton, Georgia
• 1864 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia: Federal assault
• 1873 "Field & Stream" begins publishing
• 1875 Society of Regte Afrikaanders establishes in Paarl
• 1876 Prairie View State University forms

• 1885 British Criminal Law Amendment Act raises age of consent from 13 to 16, protects against child prostitution
• 1885 Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.

• 1893 France introduces motor vehicle registration, includes a driving test
• 1894 Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge demonstrates wireless telegraphy (radio) using Morse code at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Oxford University
• 1897 The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
• 1900 1st electric tram in Netherland (Leidseplein-Brouwersgracht)
• 1901 SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska & sinks killing 70
• 1901 The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21

• 1905 Ngindo-rebellion killed 5 RC German clergymen in East-Africa
• 1908 Race riot in Springfield Illinois
• 1908 The first beauty contest is held in Folkestone, England.
• 1910 6th International Congress of Esperantists held in Washington, D.C.
• 1911 General Leconte appointed temporary President of Haiti
• 1911 United States Senate leaders begin to rotate the office of President pro tempore (for the time being) of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
• 1912 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925

• 1915 British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000
• 1917 China declares war on Germany & Austria
• 1919 Chicago White Sox outfielder Happy Felsch ties MLB record of 4 outfield assists in a game in 15-6 loss to Boston Red Sox
• 1920 Little Entente formed by Czechoslovakia & Yugoslavia
• 1920 VII Summer Olympic Games open in Antwerp, Belgium; first time Olympic Oath voiced, doves released to symbolise peace, and Olympic Flag flown
• 1921 Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Russia).
• 1922 1st "old time" musicians radio broadcast (Jenkins-WSB Atlanta)
• 1925 Mount Rushmore Monument first proposed
• 1925 The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.
• 1928 Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur's "The Front Page," premieres in NYC
• 1929 Jewish Agency for Palestine forms
• 1932 Brooklyn Dodgers reliever John Quinn, 49, becomes oldest pitcher to win a MLB game in a 2-1, 10th inning victory over NY Giants at the Polo Grounds
• 1932 Philips makes 1 millionth radio
• 1932 X Summer Olympic Games close in Los Angeles, California

• 1935 Social Security Act becomes law
• 1936 American swimmers Adolph Kiefer and Al Vande Veghe quinella the 100m backstroke at the Berlin Olympics
• 1936 Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States
• 1936 The Berlin Olympics rowing competition concludes with Germany winning 5 of 7 gold medals, although the United States wins the coveted eights gold
• 1937 Appalachian Trail is formally completed, traversing 2,000 miles and 14 US States, Georgia to Maine
• 1937 China declares war on Japan
• 1937 Detroit Tigers score MLB record 36 runs in double header vs St. Louis Browns at Navin Field; win 16-1 & 20-7
• 1938 BBC's 1st feature film on TV (Student of Prague)
• 1939 First night MLB game in the City of Chicago is played at Comiskey Park; White Sox beat St. Louis Browns, 5-2
• 1940 Dutch Premier De Geer vacations in Switzerland

• 1943 -Aug 24th: Quadrant conference over strike in Pacific Ocean
• 1943 1st allied air raid on Borneo
• 1943 US 45th Division occupies Falcone 40 km outside of Messina

• 1944 Canada and Polish begin Operation Tractable: attempting to encircle strategic French town of Falaise
• 1944 Operation Tractable: new Canadian offensive
• 1944 Soviet offensive at Weichsel

• 1947 Pakistan gains independence from Great Britain

• 1948 XIV Olympic Games close at London, Great Britain
• 1949 Military coup in Syria under colonel Sami Hinnawi

• 1952 Mátyás Rákosi appointed premier of Hungary
• 1953 20th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 24, All-Stars 10 (93,818)
• 1953 KXLF TV channel 4 in Butte, MT (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1954 WGR TV (now WGRZ) TV channel 2 in Buffalo, NY (NBC) begins
• 1958 Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21)
• 1958 Cleveland Indian Vic Power steals home twice in 1 game
• 1958 KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99
• 1959 26th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 29, All-Stars 0 (70,000)
• 1959 First (American Football League) meeting is held in Chicago; charter memberships handed to Dallas, NY, Houston, Denver, LA and Minneapolis-Saint Paul; 'AFL' named following week
• 1960 Australian driver Jack Brabham clinches his second consecutive F1 World Drivers Championship by winning the Portuguese Grand Prix at Boavista
• 1960 UN peace-keeping troops deployed to the Republic of Congo
• 1961 Philadelphia Phillies crash, 9-2 to Chicago Cubs for 17th straight defeat; 11th straight time opposing pitcher throws complete game against Phillies
• 1962 French & Italian workers break through at Mont Blanc Vehicular Tunnel

• 1962 US mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
• 1964 Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait and Syria form common market
• 1964 LA Angels pitcher Bo Belinsky is suspended after hotel room fight with elderly Los Angeles Times sportswriter Braven Dyer

• 1965 Continental Football League plays 1st games

• 1966 1st US lunar orbiter begins orbiting Moon
• 1966 Cleveland Stadium's 1st rock concert: The Beatles headline; fans break through barriers and rush stage causing a 30-minute delay while order is restored
• 1967 Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, Congo, plundered
• 1967 British pirate radio station Radio 270 broadcast from an offshore lugger, is forced to close down

• 1967 Radio Scotland & Radio Swinging Holland go off the air
• 1968 Montreal Expos officially become a member of NL
• 1969 British Army deploys on the streets of Northern Ireland, marking the beginning of Operation Banner
• 1969 In response to events in Derry, Irish nationalists hold protests throughout Northern Ireland, some of these became violent
• 1969 NY Mets fall 9½ games back, later to win pennant
• 1970 City University of NY inaugurates open admissions
• 1970 Steven Stills arrested for drug possession
• 1971 Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule
• 1971 British begin internment without trial in Northern Ireland
• 1971 Cards Bob Gibson, 35, no-hits Pirates, 11-0
• 1971 France performs nuclear test
• 1972 2 British soldiers are killed by an IRA booby trap bomb in Belfast
• 1972 A Catholic civilian is shot dead during an IRA attack on a British Army patrol in Belfast

• 1973 US ends secret bombing of Cambodia
• 1974 Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold
• 1974 Turkish army attacks Nicosia Cyprus
• 1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1974 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1975 King of Norway Olav V opens Svalbard Airport near Longyearbyen, the northernmost airport in the world with scheduled public flights

• 1976 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast
• 1977 77,691 see NY Cosmos beat Fort Lauderdale Strikers 8-3 at Giants Stadium
• 1979 Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hours duration
• 1980 17,000 workers go on strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, marking the beginning of the Solidarity movement

• 1981 George Foster hits his 8th HR into red seats at Riverfront

• 1982 Atlanta snaps an 11-game losing streak with a 6-5 win over Padres
• 1982 Iran "Ramadan-offensive" in Iraq

• 1983 Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone suffers a fractured skull from a kick to the head in a fight about a woman in Queens, NYC, and undergoes brain surgery
• 1983 Robert de Castella wins Helsinki marathon (2:10:03)
• 1984 IBM releases PC DOS version 3.0
• 1984 West Indies complete 5-0 series annihilation of England

• 1985 Political violence by the youth begins after funeral of assassinated Victoria Mxenge, a civil rights lawyer, who was respected and liked by the Congress of South African Students

• 1986 Phillies & Pirates play a 6 game series in 4 days

• 1988 Detroit beats Sox, 18-6, at Fenway, ends Boston winning streak at 24

• 1990 Angel's Louis Palonia is 74th to hit an inside park grandslam
• 1990 Denver vote for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise

• 1993 Nigerian presidential election

• 1993 St Louis reliever Lee Smith is fastest to get 40 saves
• 1994 MLB pitcher Doc Gooden completes substance abuse rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Center in Ranch Mirage, California
• 1994 Space telescope Hubble photographs Uranus with rings
• 1994 Terrorist "Carlos" arrested in Khartoum, Sudan

• 1995 Iran's official news agency, IRNA, reports that Iran has been unable to sell 200 million barrels per day of crude oil since the imposition of a unilateral oil embargo by the US
• 1995 Shannon Faulkner becomes 1st woman to attend the Citadel

• 1997 Soyuz TM-25 lands

• 1999 New Zealand win their 3rd Tri Nations Rugby Series as South Africa edges Australia, 10-9 in Cape Town; All Blacks' only defeat comes in final round dead rubber, 28-7 against Wallabies in Sydney
• 2003 Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
• 2004 The Australian women's 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Alice Mills, Lisbeth Lenton, Petria Thomas & Jodie Henry smash the world record to take gold in 3:35.94 at the Athens Olympics
• 2007 Coordinated bombings in Yazidi communities in Iraq kill at least 500 people, the second-deadliest terror attack of all time
• 2008 A popular Chinese 1-2 in the 200m butterfly at the Beijing Olympics with Liu Zige swimming world record 2:04.18 to beat teammate Jiao Liuyang
• 2008 Australian women's 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of Stephanie Rice, Bronte Barratt, Kylie Palmer & Linda Mackenzie swims world record 7:44.31 to beat China and take the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics
• 2008 French swimmer Alain Bernard wins the coveted 100m freestyle gold medal at the Beijing Olympics beating Eamon O'Sullivan of Australia by 0.11
• 2008 Japanese swimmer Kosuke Kitajima repeats his Athens Olympics 100/200m breaststroke double at the Beijing Games winning the 200m in Olympic record 2:07.64
• 2010 1st Summer Youth Olympic Games opens in Singapore
• 2012 46 people are killed and 80 injured after a series of suicide bombings in Afghanistan
• 2012 Hungary falls back into recession as GDP falls by 0.2% in the second quarter of 2012 following a fall of 1.0% in the first quarter

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