Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 14
August 14: Independence Day for Pakistan (1947)
- 1385 - Castilians were defeated by Portuguese at the Battle of Aljubarrota.
- 1842 - Seminole Indians were forced from Florida to Oklahoma, ending the Second Seminole War.
- 1945 - Japan surrendered to the Allies, ending World War II.
- 1980 - Lech Wałęsa and colleagues at shipyards began strike actions, which later led to the founding of the Solidarity movement in Gdańsk, Poland.
- 2003 - Widescale power blackout occurred in the northeast United States and in central Canada.