Tukuk-OS📅 August 14
12 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on August 14? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2021 — A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck in Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damages and economic loss.
- 2013 — Security forces raided two camps of supporters of the ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi in Cairo, leading to the deaths of at least 595 civilians.
- 2010 — The inaugural edition of the Youth Olympic Games opened in Singapore for athletes aged between 14 and 18.
- 2007 — Four coordinated suicide bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi communities of Qahtaniya and Jazeera, Iraq, killing 796 people and wounding 1,562 others.
- 2005 — Helios Airways Flight 522 crashed into a mountain north of Marathon, Greece, killing all 121 people on board.
- 1975 — The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in London, the first in its record-breaking run in cinemas, which continues in limited release.
- 1945 — Kenji Hatanaka (pictured) and other Japanese military officers launched an attempted coup d'état to prevent the surrender of Japan.
- 1941 — After a secret meeting in Newfoundland, 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.
Dominion of NewfoundlandWinston ChurchillFranklin D. Roosevelt
- 1888 — One of the first recordings of music, of Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", was played at a press conference in London to introduce Thomas Edison's phonograph.
- 1816 — The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
- 1720 — The Spanish Villasur expedition, intended to slow the progress of French influence on the Great Plains of North America, ended in failure when it was ambushed by Pawnee and Otoe forces.
- 1264 — War of Saint Sabas: A Genoese fleet captured or sank most of the ships of a Venetian trade convoy off the Albanian coast.
Births
- 2007 — Franco Mastantuono, Argentine footballer
- 2004 — Marsai Martin, American actress and producer
- 2000 — Johan Rojas, Dominican baseball player
- 1998 — Doechii, American rapper
- 1997 — Greet Minnen, Belgian tennis player
- 1995 — Léolia Jeanjean, French tennis player
- 1994 — Maya Jama, British TV presenter.
- 1991 — Richard Freitag, German ski jumper
- 1991 — Giovanny Gallegos, Mexican baseball player
- 1989 — Ander Herrera, Spanish footballer
- 1989 — Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1987 — Johnny Gargano, American wrestler
Deaths
- 2025 — Mike Castle, American politician, 69th Governor of Delaware (born 1939)
- 2024 — Gena Rowlands, American actress (born 1930)
- 2023 — Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, Bangladeshi Islamic lecturer, politician (born 1940)
- 2021 — Michael Aung-Thwin, American historian and scholar of Burmese and Southeast Asian history (born 1946)
- 2020 — Julian Bream, English classical guitarist and lutenist (born 1933)
- 2020 — Angela Buxton, British tennis player (born 1934)
- 2020 — James R. Thompson, American politician, Governor of Illinois (born 1936)
- 2019 — Polly Farmer, Australian footballer and coach (born 1935)
- 2018 — Jill Janus, American singer (born 1975)
- 2016 — Fyvush Finkel, American actor (born 1922)
- 2015 — Bob Johnston, American songwriter and producer (born 1932)
- 2014 — Leonard Fein, American journalist and academic, co-founded Moment Magazine (born 1934)
Observances & holidays
- Christian feast day: Arnold of Soissons
- Christian feast day: Domingo Ibáñez de Erquicia
- Christian feast day: Eusebius of Rome
- Christian feast day: Fachtna of Rosscarbery
- Christian feast day: Jonathan Myrick Daniels (Episcopal Church)
- Christian feast day: Maria Elisabetta Renzi
- Christian feast day: Martyrs of Otranto
- Christian feast day: Maximilian Kolbe
- National Navajo Code Talkers Day is a holiday in the United States honoring Navajo code talkers in the military.
- Falklands Day is the celebration of the first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis in 1592.
- Independence Day celebrates the independence of Pakistan from the United Kingdom in 1947.
- Partition Horrors Remembrance Day commemorates the victims and sufferings of people during the Partition of India in 1947.
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