Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 14
This is a list of selected August 14 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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A depiction of the Battle of Aljubarrota <-too small at 100px -
Osceola, chief of Seminoles -
Lech Wałęsa -
Roosevelt and Churchill aboard USS Augusta (CA-31) -
John I of Portugal -
{{DYK Listen|Edison cylinder Lost Chord.ogg|"The Lost Chord", 1888 recording}}
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Cologne Cathedral
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1385 – Forces under John I defeated the Castilians in the Battle of Aljubarrota, ending the 1383–1385 Crisis in Portugal. | needs more footnotes |
| 1947 – The Partition of India: The Dominion of Pakistan was established, carved out of the two Muslim-majority wings in the eastern and northwestern regions of British India. | needs more footnotes, also British Raj appears on August 15 |
| 2003 – A widescale power blackout occurred in the Northeastern United States and in central Canada, affecting an estimated 55 million people. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 2009 – The Magna Carta for Women became law, allowing further protection for women in the Philippines. | already featured on January 7 |
Eligible
- 1842 – American Indian Wars: American general William J. Worth declared the Second Seminole War to be over.
- 1888 – A recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's The Lost Chord, one of the first recordings of music ever made, was played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London.
- 1980 – Lech Wałęsa and colleagues at Gdańsk Shipyard began strike actions, which subsequently led to the founding of the Solidarity movement in Poland.
- 1987 – The Australian Federal Police raided the compound owned by the Santiniketan Park Association and freed a number of children who had been held there illegally.
- 1994 – International fugitive Carlos the Jackal, wanted for a number of terrorist attacks in Europe, was handed over to French agents by Sudanese officials.
- 1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou was shot to death by Turkish forces while trying to remove a Turkish flag from a flagpole in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
- 2005 – Helios Airways Flight 522 crashed into a mountain north of Marathon and Varnava, Greece, killing all 121 people on board.
- 2007 – Four coordinated suicide bomb attacks detonated in the Iraqi towns of Qahtaniya and Jazeera, killing an estimated 796 people and wounding 1,562 others.
- 2010 – The inaugural Youth Olympic Games opened in Singapore for athletes between 14 and 18 years old.
August 14: Independence Day in Pakistan (1947)
- 1816 – The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
- 1880 – Construction of Cologne Cathedral—Germany's most visited landmark—was completed, 632 years after it had begun.
- 1941 – After a secret meeting off the Canadian coast, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (both pictured) issued the Atlantic Charter, establishing a vision for a post-World War II world despite the fact that the United States had yet to enter the war.
- 1975 – The film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which is still in limited release today, making it the longest-running theatrical release in film history, premiered in Los Angeles.
- 2006 – The United Nations brokered a ceasefire in the Lebanon War between Lebanon and Israel.