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Events on the 14th of August in history

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14 Aug 2029 Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
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14 Aug 0410 Alaric sacks Rome
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14 Aug 0554 Ravenna becomes seat of Byzantines milt Governor in Italy
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14 Aug 1040 King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
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14 Aug 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).
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14 Aug 1281 Kublai Khans invading fleet disappears in typhoon near Japan
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14 Aug 1288 Count Adolf VIII of Berg grants town privileges to Düsseldorf, the village on the banks of the Düssel.
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14 Aug 1352 War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.
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14 Aug 1370 Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Carlsbad which is subsequently named after him.
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14 Aug 1385 Portuguese Crisis of 1383–85: Battle of Aljubarrota – Portuguese forces commanded by King John I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King John I.
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14 Aug 1385 Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota, retain independence
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14 Aug 1395 Utrecht Bishop Frederik of Blankenheim occupies Coevorden
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14 Aug 1415 Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta.
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14 Aug 1457 Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg)
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14 Aug 1498 Columbus landed at the mouth of the Orinoco River in Venezuela
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14 Aug 1551 Turkish fleet under Dragut occupies Tripoli
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14 Aug 1559 Spanish explorer de Luna lands in Pensacola Bay, Florida
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14 Aug 1585 Queen Elizabeth I refuses sovereignty of the Netherlands
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14 Aug 1592 Imjin War: At the Battle of Hansan Island, the Korean Navy, led by Yi Sun-sin and Won Kyun, decisively defeats the Japanese Navy, led by Wakisaka Yasuharu, at Hansan Island.
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14 Aug 1597 Cornelis de Houtmans fleet is 1st Dutch visit to Java
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14 Aug 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.
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14 Aug 1624 Dutch fleet ceases Callao the Lima in Peru
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14 Aug 1636 Spanish troops occupy Corbie at Amiens
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14 Aug 1642 Able Tasmans ships Heemskerck / Zeehaen depart out of Batavia
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14 Aug 1678 Battle of Mons-French repulse William of Orange
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14 Aug 1720 The Spanish military Villasur expedition is wiped out by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
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14 Aug 1743 Prussian army occupies Saksen, beginning 2nd Silezian War
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14 Aug 1756 French capture Fort Oswego, New York
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14 Aug 1758 Battle at Zorndorf: Prussia beat Russia, 1000s killed
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14 Aug 1762 English fleet occupies Havana
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14 Aug 1765 Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)
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14 Aug 1782 Suriname forbids selling slave mothers without their babies
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14 Aug 1790 Sweden and Russia sign Peace of Verela
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14 Aug 1813 British warship Pelican attacks & captures US war brigantine Argus
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14 Aug 1816 Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha
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14 Aug 1816 The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
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14 Aug 1820 1st US eye hospital, the New York Eye Infirmary, opens in New York City
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14 Aug 1824 General Lafayette returns to US
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14 Aug 1825 Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out
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14 Aug 1842 American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
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14 Aug 1842 Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma
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14 Aug 1846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance
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14 Aug 1848 Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
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14 Aug 1848 Oregon Territory created
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14 Aug 1861 79th New York troops mutinies
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14 Aug 1861 Martial Law is declared at St. Louis MI
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14 Aug 1862 Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with US president
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14 Aug 1864 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia: Federal assault
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14 Aug 1873 "Field & Stream" begins publishing
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14 Aug 1873 "Forest & Stream" begins publishing
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14 Aug 1875 Society of Regte Afrikaanders establishes in Paarl
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14 Aug 1876 Prairie View State University forms
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14 Aug 1880 Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed (began in 1248)
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14 Aug 1880 Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
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14 Aug 1882 Queen Victoria recieves Zulu chief Cetewayo
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14 Aug 1885 Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
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14 Aug 1888 An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
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14 Aug 1893 France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
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14 Aug 1893 France issues 1st driving licenses, included required test
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14 Aug 1897 Franco-Hova Wars: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
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14 Aug 1900 1st electric tram in the Netherlands (Leidseplein-Brouwersgracht)
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14 Aug 1900 2,000 marines land to capture Beijing, ending Boxer rebellion
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14 Aug 1900 The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
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14 Aug 1900 Intl forces including US Marines enter Beijing to put down Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at ridding China of foreigners
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14 Aug 1901 SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska and sinks killing 70
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14 Aug 1901 The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
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14 Aug 1903 James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 10 for heavywgt boxing title
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14 Aug 1905 Ngindo-rebellion killed 5 RC German clergymen in East-Africa
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14 Aug 1907 "Ha-Tikva" adopted as official Zionist hymn
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14 Aug 1908 Race riot in Springfield Illinois
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14 Aug 1910 6th International Congress of Esperantists held in Washington, DC
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14 Aug 1911 General Leconte appointed temporary President of Haiti
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14 Aug 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.
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14 Aug 1912 U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
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14 Aug 1912 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925
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14 Aug 1914 British field marshal John French and General Wilson land in France
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14 Aug 1914 World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
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14 Aug 1915 British transport Royal Edward sank by German U-boat kills 1000
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14 Aug 1916 Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the Entente in World War I.
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14 Aug 1917 Leeuwen soccer team forms
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14 Aug 1917 China declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I
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14 Aug 1919 White Sox Happy Felsch ties record of 4 outfield assists in a game
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14 Aug 1919 Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple-play
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14 Aug 1920 Little Entente formed by Czechoslovakia andYugoslavia
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14 Aug 1920 Olympic Games open in Antwerp
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14 Aug 1921 Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
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14 Aug 1922 1st "old time" musicians broadcasted on radio (Jenkins-WSB Atlanta)
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14 Aug 1925 Mount Rushmore 1st proposed
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14 Aug 1929 Jewish Agency for Palestine forms
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14 Aug 1932 Dodger John Quinn, 49, is oldest pitcher to win a major league game
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14 Aug 1932 Philips makes 1 millionth radio
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14 Aug 1932 10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles closes
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14 Aug 1933 Jimmie Foxx hits for cycle and sets AL record with 9 RBIs
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14 Aug 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 km2).
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14 Aug 1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
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14 Aug 1935 Social Security Act became law
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14 Aug 1936 Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
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14 Aug 1936 1st Olympic basketball game (Berlin)
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14 Aug 1937 China declares war on Japan
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14 Aug 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.
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14 Aug 1937 Detroit Tigers score 36 runs in double header vs St Louis Browns
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14 Aug 1939 1st night games at Comiskey Park (White Sox 5, Browns 2)
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14 Aug 1940 Dutch Premier De Geer vacations in Switzerland
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14 Aug 1941 World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
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14 Aug 1941 Atlantic Charter signed by FDR & Churchill
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14 Aug 1942 Dwight D Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa
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14 Aug 1943 1st allied air raid on Borneo
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14 Aug 1943 US 45th Division occupies Falcone 40 km outside of Messina
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14 Aug 1944 British Premier Winston Churchill arrives at Corsica
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14 Aug 1944 Operation Tractable: new Canadian offensive
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14 Aug 1944 Russian offensive at Weichsel
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14 Aug 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).
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14 Aug 1945 The Viet Minh launches August Revolution amid the political confusion and power vacuum engulfing Vietnam.
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14 Aug 1945 V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II
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14 Aug 1947 Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
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14 Aug 1947 India granted independence within British Commonwealth
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14 Aug 1947 Mildred Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for $300,000
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14 Aug 1947 Pakistan gains independence from Britain
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14 Aug 1948 14th Olympic games close at London, Great Britain
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14 Aug 1948 14th Olympic games in London closes
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14 Aug 1949 Military coup under Colonel Sami Hinnawi in Syria
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14 Aug 1953 20th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 24, All-Stars 10 (93,818)
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14 Aug 1953 KXLF TV channel 4 in Butte, MT (CBS / ABC) begins broadcasting
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14 Aug 1954 WGR TV (now WGRZ) TV channel 2 in Buffalo, New York (NBC) begins
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14 Aug 1958 Cleveland Indian, Vic Power steals home twice in 1 game
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14 Aug 1958 Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21)
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14 Aug 1958 KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99
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14 Aug 1959 26th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 29, All-Stars 0 (70,000)
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14 Aug 1959 Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
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14 Aug 1959 AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver & Houston
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14 Aug 1961 Philadelphia Phillies lose 17th straight game
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14 Aug 1962 French & Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel
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14 Aug 1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m
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14 Aug 1962 US mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
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14 Aug 1964 Bo Belinsky is suspended after attacking sportswriter Braven Dyer
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14 Aug 1964 Egypt / Iraq / Jordan / Kuwait / Syria form common market
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14 Aug 1965 Beatles tape an appearance for the Ed Sullivan Show
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14 Aug 1965 Continental Football League plays 1st games
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14 Aug 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
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14 Aug 1966 1st US lunar orbiter begins orbiting the Moon
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14 Aug 1967 Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, Congo, plundered
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14 Aug 1967 Pirate radio stations Radio 270, Radio London, Radio Ireland
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14 Aug 1967 Radio Scotland and Radio Swinging Holland go off the air
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14 Aug 1967 UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
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14 Aug 1967 Pirate radio stations Radio 270, Radio London, Radio Ireland, Radio Scotland & Radio Swinging Holland go off the air
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14 Aug 1968 Jimmy Ellis beats Floyd Patterson in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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14 Aug 1968 Montreal Expos officially become a member of NL
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14 Aug 1969 Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.
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14 Aug 1969 British troops intervenes militarily in Northern Ireland
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14 Aug 1969 NY Mets fall 9
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14 Aug 1970 City University of New York inaugurates open admissions
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14 Aug 1970 Steven Stills arrested for drug possession
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14 Aug 1971 Cards Bob Gibson, 35, no-hits Pirates, 11-0
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14 Aug 1971 Bahrain declares independence as the State of Bahrain.
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14 Aug 1971 Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule
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14 Aug 1971 British begin internment without trial in Northern Ireland
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14 Aug 1971 St Louis Cards Bob Gibson no-hits Pitts, 11-0
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14 Aug 1972 Bloody Sunday: British soldiers fire into crowd, kill 13
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14 Aug 1972 An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
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14 Aug 1972 East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156
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14 Aug 1973 Johnny Unitas files $725,000 suit against Baltimore Colts
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14 Aug 1973 US ends secret bombing of Cambodia
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14 Aug 1973 The Pakistan Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.
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14 Aug 1973 US bombs Cambodia
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14 Aug 1974 Turkish army attacks Nicosia Cyprus
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14 Aug 1974 The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins; 140,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriots become refugees. Around 6,000 massacred, 1,619 missing.
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14 Aug 1974 Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold
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14 Aug 1975 Dmitri Shotakovitch, buried at the Novodevitshi-convent
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14 Aug 1975 Norwegian King Olav V opens Longyearbyen Airport on Spitsbergen
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14 Aug 1975 The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens at the USA Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.
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14 Aug 1976 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast
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14 Aug 1977 59th PGA Championship: Lanny Wadkins shoots a 282 at Pebble Beach, California
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14 Aug 1977 77,691 see New York Cosmos beat Ft Lauderdale Strikers 8-3 at Giant Stadium
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14 Aug 1977 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Long Island Charity Golf Classic
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14 Aug 1978 French TV announced a rating of "0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleonic drama-67%, Knockout-33%)
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14 Aug 1979 Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hour duration
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14 Aug 1980 17,000 workers strike in Gdansk, Poland
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14 Aug 1980 Democratic Convention in NYC nominates Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale
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14 Aug 1980 In Lenin Shipyard Gdansk Poland, 17,000 workers go on strike
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14 Aug 1980 Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
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14 Aug 1981 Phils Mike Schmidt hits his 300th career HR off New York Met Mike Scott
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14 Aug 1981 George Foster hits his 8th HR into the red seats at Riverfront
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14 Aug 1982 Atlanta snaps an 11-game losing streak with a 6-5 win over Padres
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14 Aug 1982 Iran "Ramadan-offensive" in Iraq
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14 Aug 1982 Pete Rose (Phillies) 12,365 at bat sets record (passes Aaron)
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14 Aug 1983 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
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14 Aug 1983 Robert de Castella wins Helsinki marathon (2:10:03
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14 Aug 1984 West Indies complete 5-0 series annihilation of England
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14 Aug 1984 IBM releases MS-DOS version 3.0
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14 Aug 1986 Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrested
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14 Aug 1986 Phillies & Pirates play a 6 game series in 4 days
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14 Aug 1987 "Les Miserables, " opens at Rock Theatre, Szeged Hungary
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14 Aug 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.
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14 Aug 1988 70th PGA Championship: Jeff Sluman shoots a 272 at Oak Tree Golf Club - Edmond
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14 Aug 1988 Detroit beats Sox, 18-6, at Fenway, ends Boston winning streak at 24
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14 Aug 1989 President Pieter W Botha of South Africa, resigns
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14 Aug 1990 Angel's Louis Palonia is 74th to hit an inside the park grandslam
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14 Aug 1990 Denver vote for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise
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14 Aug 1991 Twins Dave Winfield is 23rd to hit 400 HR
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14 Aug 1991 Comedian Jackie Mason marries his manager Jyll Rosenfeld (37)
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14 Aug 1993 Dr William Masters (78) weds college sweetheart Geraldine Oliver (76)
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14 Aug 1993 Nigerian presidential election
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14 Aug 1993 Reggie Jackson Day - New York Yanks retire 13th # (#44)
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14 Aug 1993 St. Louis reliever Lee Smith is fastest to get 40 saves
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14 Aug 1994 76th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 269 at Southern Hills Tulsa
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14 Aug 1994 Doc Gooden leaves Betty Ford Center
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14 Aug 1994 Space telescope Hubble photographs Uranus with rings
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14 Aug 1994 Terrorist "Carlos" arrested in Khartoum Sudan
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14 Aug 1994 Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
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14 Aug 1995 Shannon Faulkner becomes 1st woman to attend the Citadel
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14 Aug 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.
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14 Aug 1997 "1776, " opens at Criterion Theater, New York City
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14 Aug 1997 Convicted Okla City bomber Timothy McVeigh formally sentenced to death
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14 Aug 1997 Okla Court of Appeals upholds death sentence of Timothy McVeigh
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14 Aug 1997 Soyuz TM-25 lands
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14 Aug 2003 A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
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14 Aug 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.
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14 Aug 2006 Chencholai bombing: Sixty-one Sri Lankan Tamils are killed in a Sri Lankan Air force bombing.
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14 Aug 2007 The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 796 people.
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14 Aug 2010 The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.
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14 Aug 2013 Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
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