August 14 in history
Events on August 14
Notable events that happened on August 14 in past years.
- 2023
Former U.S. president Donald Trump is charged in Georgia along with 18 others in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election in that state, his fourth indictment of 2023.
Wikipedia article: Donald Trump - 2015
The U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–United States relations were broken off.
Wikipedia article: Embassy of the United States, Havana - 2006
Lebanon War: A ceasefire takes effect three days after the United Nations Security Council's approval of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, formally ending hostilities between Lebanon and Israel.
Wikipedia article: 2006 Lebanon War - 1996
Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
Wikipedia article: Killing of Solomos Solomou - 1972
An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany killing 156 people.
Wikipedia article: Interflug Flight 450 - 1959
Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
Wikipedia article: American Football League - 1936
Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
Wikipedia article: Rainey Bethea - 1920
The 1920 Summer Olympics, having started four months earlier, officially open in Antwerp, Belgium, with the newly adopted Olympic flag and the Olympic oath being raised and taken at the Opening Ceremony for the first time in Olympic history.
Wikipedia article: 1920 Summer Olympics - 1900
Battle of Peking: The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
Wikipedia article: Battle of Peking (1900) - 1848
Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
Wikipedia article: Oregon Territory - 1814
A cease fire agreement, called the Convention of Moss, ends the Swedish–Norwegian War.
Wikipedia article: Convention of Moss - 1720
The Spanish military Villasur expedition is defeated by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
Wikipedia article: Villasur expedition - 1370
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Karlovy Vary.
Wikipedia article: Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor - 1136
Abbasid Caliph al-Rashid Billah flees from Bagdhad, which had been besieged by an army of the Seljuk Turks under Sultan Ghiyath ad-Din Mas'ud for fifty days.
- 74 BC
A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan.
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