August 14 Historical Events

The following events took place on August 14. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 55 events. Showing 31 - 55.

• 1937
  Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.
• 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
  The Viet Minh launches August Revolution amid the political confusion and power vacuum engulfing Vietnam.
• 1947
  Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
• 1959
  Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
• 1962
  Two gunmen hijacked a mail truck in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and made off with $1.5 million.
• 1967
  UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
• 1969
  Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.
• 1971
  Bahrain declares independence as the State of Bahrain.
• 1972
  An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
• 1973
  The Pakistan Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.

• 1974
  The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins; 140,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriots become refugees. Around 6,000 massacred, 1,619 missing.
• 1975
  The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens in London.
• 1980
  Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
• 1987
  All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.
• 1994
  Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as “Carlos the Jackal”, is captured.
• 1996
  Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
• 2003
  A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
• 2005
  Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
• 2006
  Chencholai bombing: Sixty-one Sri Lankan Tamils are killed in a Sri Lankan Air force bombing.
• 2007
  The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 796 people.
• 2010
  The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.
• 2013
  Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
• 2015
  The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–United States relations were broken off.