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Day Of The Week: August 14
August 14, 2025 is the 226th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 139 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Leo is your zodiac sign. Peridot is your modern birthstone. Diamond is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: August 14
- 1900 –The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
- 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).
- 1967 –UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
- 1972 –An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
- 1973 –The Pakistani Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.
- 1974 –The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins; 140,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriots become refugees. Elsewhere, 126 Turkish Cypriots are massacred.
- 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.
- 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 –Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
- 2006 –Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing.
Who were born on August 14?
- 1653 –Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (d. 1688)
- 1901 –Alice Rivaz, Swiss writer (d. 1998)
- 1926 –Buddy Greco, American singer and pianist
- 1936 –Trevor Bannister, British actor (d. 2011)
- 1945 –Wim Wenders, German-born film director
- 1947 –Maddy Prior, British folk singer
- 1959 –Frank Brickowski, American basketball player
- 1968 –Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer
- 1969 –Tracy Caldwell, American astronaut
- 1985 –Digão, Brazilian footballer
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