The August 14th is the 226e Jour of the Année (227e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

• 1352 : Battle of Mauron, in Brittany

• 1385: Battle of Aljubarrota, between the Portugal and the Castille
• 1789: Armand-Gaston Camus is named archivist with the Commission of the files of the Constituent Assembly; it will be at the origin of the creation of the Public records
• 1791: Ceremony of Wood-Caiman, initiating event of the first rising of slaves in Haiti
• 1832: Independence of the Ecuador
• 1887: The pope Leon XIII holy crown Radegonde, " mother of the fatherland française"
• 1893 : Introduction of the registration of the cars in France
• 1900: A European task force enters to Beijing and crushes the Révolte of the Boxers

XXe century

• 1941 : Churchill and Roosevelt signs the Charte of the Atlantic which defines the goals of the war

• 1942: A Jewish convoy of 991 S, men and women, leaves the camp of regrouping of Drancy (France) for the death camp of Auschwitz, where 875 of them are immediately gauzes. There will be only one survivor for all the convoy
• 1945: Capitulation of the Japan after the Soviet invasion of the Mandchourie and the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic bombs
• 1971: Independence of the Bahrain
• 1980: To Gdansk, in Poland, the 17.000 workmen of the building sites Lénine enter in open rebellion against the communist capacity
• 1982: Birth of the first baby test-tube French
• 2000: Adoption of the resolution 1315 of the Safety advice of the United Nations, for the creation of the Special court for the Sierra Leone.

XXIe century

• 2002 : Lyonpo Kinzang Dorji becomes Prime Minister for the Bhutan

• 2003: Large power failure in the North-East of the the United States and Canada

Births

• 1714 : Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter († December 3rd 1789)
• 1737: Charles Hutton, British Mathematician († January 27th 1823)
• 1742: Barnaba Chiaramonti, pope under the name of Black and white VII († August 20th 1823)
• 1817: Ali III Bey, Bey de Tunis († June 11th 1902)
• 1867: John Galsworthy, Nobel Prize of literature in 1932 († January 31st 1933)
• 1910: Willy Ronis, French photographer
• 1926: Rene Goscinny, scenario writer of cartoon († November 5th 1977)
• 1927: Roger Carel (Roger Blancherel), French actor
• 1943: Jon A. McBride, American astronaut
• 1945: Wim Wenders, German scenario writer
• 1945: Refusals O' Rourke, Australian realizer
• 1946
• Antonio Fargas, American actor (" Huggy the goods tuyaux")
• Susan St-James, American actress
• 1952: Mark C. Lee, American astronaut
• 1959
• Gay Marcia Harden, American actress
• Magic Johnson, champion of Basketball
• 1963: Emmanuelle Béart, pseudonym of Emmanuelle Béhar, French actress
• 1966
• Halle Berry, American actress
• David Hallyday, French singer
• 1969: Tracy Caldwell, American astronaut
• 1973: Romance Bohringer, French actress
• 1979: Severine Brémond, French professional tennis player, born with Montpellier, France

Death

•    582: Tibère II Constantin , Byzantine Emperor

• 1040: Duncan I {{er}} ('' Donnchad ''), king d' Écosse
• 1464: Black and white II ( Enea Silvio Piccolomini ), 210e Pope of the Catholic church (° October 18th 1405).
• 1486 : Marco Barbarigo, 73ème Doge de Venise (elected in 1485). (° 1413).
• 1587 : Guillaume de Mantoue, noble Italian, duke of Mantoue, marquis then duke of Montferrat (° January 23rd 1538).
• 1660 : Marie de Mantoue, noble Italian, wife of the duke Charles III of Mayenne (° July 29th 1609).
• 1665 : Charles II of Mantoue, noble Franco-Italian, duke of Mayenne, of Nevers, of Rethel, Mantoue and Montferrat (° October 31st 1629).
• 1692 : Nicolas Chorier, lawyer with Vienna, then prosecutor of the King to Grenoble, Historian and literary man Libertine (° September 1st 1612).
• 1860 : Andre Marie Constant Duméril, zoologist French (° January 1st 1774).
• 1893 : Alexander Strauch zoologist Russian (° March 1st 1832).
• 1931 : Gitanillo de Triana (Francisco Vega of los Reyes), Spanish Matador (° September 23rd 1903).
• 1941 : Maximilien Kolbe, man of the church Polish (° January 7th 1894).
• 1956 : Bertolt Brecht, author and German director (° February 10th 1898).
• 1958 : Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist (° March 19th 1900).
• 1974 : Clay Shaw, business man of the New-Orleans, accused of the assassination of the president John F. Kennedy (° March 17th 1913).
• 1980 : Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and mannequin (° February 28th 1960).
• 1992 : Tony Williams, singer of the Platters (° April 15th 1928).
• 2004 :
• Czeslaw Milosz, poet and translator Polish (° June 30th 1911).
• Neal Fredericks, American cinematographic producer (° July 24th 1969).
• 2005 : Manolo Vázquez, Spanish Matador (° August 21st 1930).

Celebrations

• national Festival with the Pakistan (day of independence in 1947).

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• Michée the prophet (8th century before JC)
• Marcel d' Apamée (+ towards 389), bishop martyr

See too

• August 14th in sport
• August 14th in the railroads

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