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- 0410 Alaric sacks Rome
- 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).
- 1248 Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun
- 1385 Portuguese Crisis of 13831385: Battle of Aljubarrota - Portuguese forces commanded by King Joo I and his general Nuno lvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King Juan I.
- 1385 Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota, retain independence
- 1457 Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg)
- 1598 Irish rebel Hugh O'Neill, the earl of Tyrone, annihilates an English force at Yellow Ford, marking the greatest Irish victory in the wars with the English
- 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.
- 1756 French capture Fort Oswego, NY
- 1765 Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)
- 1784 First Russian colony in Alaska is founded on Kodiak Island.
- 1791 Ceremony at Bois Caiman, Haiti; Haitian Revolution begins.
- 1813 British warship Pelican attacks and captures US war brigantine Argus
- 1842 Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
- 1842 Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma
- 1846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance
- 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
- 1848 Oregon Territory organized by Act of U.S. Congress.
- 1862 Lincoln receives first group of blacks to confer with US president
- 1863 First Kanakas arrive in Brisbane for employment on cotton plantation.
- 1873 "Forest and Stream" begins publishing
- 1876 Prairie View State University forms
- 1880 Australia's first soccer club, The Wanderers, plays its first match, against Kings School, Parramatta, NSW.
- 1880 Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, completed.
- 1885 Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
- 1893 France introduces motor vehicle registration.
- 1893 France issues first driving licenses, included required test
- 1897 The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
- 1899 Bell Telephone Company installs Canada's first push-button pay phone in a Montreal drugstore connections made only after 5¢ deposit; made by Northern Electric, today's Nortel.
- 1900 A joint European-Japanese-United States force (Eight-Nation Alliance) occupies Beijing, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
- 1900 Intl forces including US Marines enter Beijing to put down Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at ridding China of foreigners
- 1901 The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
- 1908 First beauty contest held in Folkestone, England.
- 1908 Race riot in Springfield Illinois
- 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 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925
- 1917 China declares war on Germany and Austria at start of WW I
- 1919 The first plane flight between Montreal and Quebec; takes 5 hours, now it takes the same time but we now include the time to get to and from the airports
- 1921 Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Russia).
- 1924 Australia's Cobb & Co stagecoach service makes its last run, from Surat to Yeulba in Queensland.
- 1925 The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.
- 1932 10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles closes
- 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 km).
- 1934 Millionaire brewer John Labatt abducted at gunpoint by three men, who asked for a ransom of $150,000, which the kidnappers never received; released unharmed three days later; first recorded kidnapping for ransom in Canada.
- 1935 Social Security Act became law
- 1935 United States Social Security Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired.
- 1936 A train and truck collide at Louiseville Quebec, killing 22.
- 1936 First Olympic basketball game (Berlin)
- 1936 Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
- 1937 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 were shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases, hence, 14 August has thus become acknoledged and celebrated as Chinese Air Force Day.
- 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).
- 1945 V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II
- 1947 India granted independence within British Commonwealth
- 1947 Pakistan gains Independence from the British Indian Empire under the administration of United Kingdom and joins the British Commonwealth.
- 1947 Pakistan gains independence from Britain
- 1948 14th Olympic games in London closes
- 1949 Visitor posting - Rodger Jay Moores born - USA
- 1957 Visitor posting - Jazz pianist and composer Anthony Dowd is born. - USA [email protected]
- 1958 KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99
- 1962 French and Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel
- 1962 US mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
- 1964 Visitor posting - Ms. Cindi L. Taggart was born
- 1965 Beatles tape an appearance for the Ed Sullivan Show
- 1966 First US lunar orbiter begins orbiting the Moon
- 1967 UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
- 1968 In the Northern Celebesa a 7.4 earthquake caused tsunami waves, reaching up to 300 meters inland,took some 200 lives and destroyed 700 houses. Wave heights were estimated at 8 to 10 meters
- 1968 Number one hit on UK music charts - Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire
- 1969 British troops intervenes militarily in Northern Ireland
- 1969 United Kingdom troops deploy in Northern Ireland.
- 1971 Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule
- 1971 British begin internment without trial in Northern Ireland
- 1972 An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
- 1972 East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156
- 1973 The constitution of 1973 comes into effect in Pakistan
- 1973 US bombs Cambodia
- 1974 Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold
- 1976 The Senegalese political party PAI-Rnovation is legally recognized. PAI-Rnovation thus becomes the third legal party in the country.
- 1980 Lech Wasa leads strikes at Gdask, Poland shipyards.
- 1984 IBM releases MS-DOS version 3.0
- 1985 Visitor posting - Kyle Hager is born - USA
- 1985 Visitor posting - LAURA VARGAS IS BORN - L.A/CA - USA
- 1988 Visitor posting - Michael and Candy were married. - USA
- 1989 Visitor posting - Erika was born! - USA
- 1989 Visitor posting - Joshua Ikaika is born to Bevie and Mikey deGuzman
- 1990 Visitor posting - August 14 1990 Heather Phillips was born
- 1990 Visitor posting - Bobby Fabrey was Born - USA
- 1991 Visitor posting - Brandy Williams was born. - USA
- 1992 Visitor posting - Craig is born
- 1993 Visitor posting - august 14 1993 Anthony James Mclees is born
- 1994 Ilich Ramrez Snchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
- 1994 Visitor posting - Nicole was born! - USA
- 1996 Ian Macfarlane is appointed new head of Australia's Reserve Bank
- 2003 The largest power blackout in Norht America's history knocks out power for 50 million people in Northeast U.S. and Ontario
- 2003 Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
- 2005 Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes north of Athens, killing the 121 on board.
- 2005 Visitor posting - Wyatt Thomas of Gorham Maine was born - USA
- 2006 The 2006 Lebanon War cease fire goes into effect.
- 2007 The 2007 Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 400 people.
- 2009 A Canadian court orders the government to repatriate Omar Khadr, the sole remaining Western citizen held in Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
- 2009 A University of Glasgow study suggests Asians may view faces differently from others.
- 2009 After launching a major offensive attack on a suspected ASG training camp, the day-long clash in the Southern Philippines resulted in 23 government casualties and 31 casualties from the Abu Sayyaf Group.
- 2009 An archaeological excavation uncovers the foundations of the 17th-century Smock Alley Theatre and several artefacts from theatrical performances in Dublin.
- 2009 At least 13 people are killed and at least 85 are injured in a fierce gun battle in Gaza.
- 2009 At least 13 people have died after a bus-train collision in Iasi County, Romania.
- 2009 Hundreds of people protest in Caracas, Venezuela, after journalists protesting a new education law were beaten the previous day.
- 2009 In Montevideo, President of Mexico Felipe Calderón and President of Uruguay Tabaré Vázquez sign a Strategic Association accord to strengthen political dialogue and bilateral trade relations.
- 2009 In an unexpected move, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir replaces Salah Gosh, his country's chief of security and intelligence since the mid-1990s, with General Mohamed Atta al-Mawla.
- 2009 Iranian reformists call for a probe of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his ability to rule. (Associated Press) (BBC)
- 2009 Lawyers for the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, say he is abandoning his second appeal against his conviction for the December 1988 attack as Scottish officials consider his request to be sent home to Libya.
- 2009 Lynette Fromme, a former member of the Manson family, is released after serving 34 years in prison.
- 2009 Malagasy peace talks break down when the armed forces reject one clause in the peace deal.
- 2009 Pakistan begins its first international freight train service from Islamabad to Istanbul.
- 2009 Paraguay’s government withdraws a bill approving Venezuela's incorporation to Mercosur, fearing a defeat in Congress could hurt relations between the two countries.
- 2009 The MV Arctic Sea, missing since late July, is reportedly found 400 nautical miles off the Cape Verde islands.
- 2009 The United Kingdom imposes direct rule on the Turks and Caicos Islands after an inquiry found evidence of government corruption.
- 2009 The remains of over 2,000 people discovered in Poland's largest mass grave from World War II are reburied in a military cemetery.
- 2009 United States senator Jim Webb arrives in Burma for talks with General Than Shwe.
- 2009 Visitor posting - Bailey Adam Murray Born today - Australia
- 2010 The Beijing-Tibet expressway slowed to a crawl on August 14 in a more than 100-kilometre (62-mile) traffic jam. It lasted nine days. It took 3 days to travel the 100 KM. Once you were in, you couldn't get out. You don't want to pick berries in those ditches :-) - China
- 2010 Visitor posting - nate and rachel meet - USA
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