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On this day - August 14
A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, ...
Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to ...
1040 — King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and ...
1183 — Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor ...
1264 — After tricking the Venetian galley fleet into sailing east to ...
1352 — War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French ...
1370 — Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to ...
1385 — Portuguese Crisis of 1383–85: Battle of Aljubarrota: ...
1592 — The first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis.
1598 — Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford: Irish forces ...
1720 — The Spanish military Villasur expedition is defeated by Pawnee ...
1784 — Russian colonization of North America: Awa'uq Massacre: ...
1790 — The Treaty of Wereloe ended the 1788–1790 Russo-Swedish War.
1791 — Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ...
1814 — A cease fire agreement, called the Convention of Moss, ended ...
1816 — The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha ...
1842 — American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the ...
1848 — Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
1880 — Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in ...
1885 — Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a ...
1893 — France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle ...
1900 — Battle of Peking: The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, ...
1901 — The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his ...
1914 — World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful ...
1917 — World War I: The Republic of China, which had heretofore been ...
1920 — The 1920 Summer Olympics, having started four months earlier, ...
1921 — Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is ...
1933 — Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, ...
1935 — Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating ...
1936 — Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last ...
1941 — World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign ...
1947 — Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire as the ...
1948 — An Idaho Department of Fish and Game program to relocate ...
1959 — Founding and first official meeting of the American Football ...
1967 — UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act 1967 declares ...
1969 — The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland ...
1971 — Bahrain declares independence from Britain.
1972 — An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, ...
1974 — Turkey launches the second phase of the invasion of Cyprus, ...
1980 — Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
1994 — Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the ...
1996 — Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a ...
2003 — A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States ...
2005 — Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to ...
2006 — Sri Lankan Civil War: Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in ...
2006 — Lebanon War: A ceasefire takes effect three days after the ...
2007 — The Kahtaniya bombings kill at least 500 people.
2013 — UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at ...
2013 — Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill ...
2015 — The U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of ...
2018 — The collapse of the Ponte Morandi bridge in Genoa, Italy, left ...
2021 — A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing ...
2022 — An explosion destroys a market in Armenia, killing six people ...
2023 — Former U.S. president Donald Trump is charged in Georgia along ...