# On this day: August 14

August 14 is the 226th day of the year (227th in leap years), with 139 days left until the end of the year.

## August 14 in one line

Headline entries for August 14, from Wikipedia: in 1941, After a secret meeting in Newfoundland, British prime minister Winston Churchill and U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the Atlantic Charter, establishing a vision for a post–World War II world; born 1867: John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1933); died 1956: Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and director (born 1898). In 2026 it is a Friday, in 2027 a Saturday.

## Events on August 14

- 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. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_of_Haihun)
- 1264 War of Saint Sabas: A Genoese fleet captured or sank most of the ships of a Venetian trade convoy off the Albanian coast. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saseno)
- 1370 Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Karlovy Vary. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_IV%2C_Holy_Roman_Emperor)
- 1385 Portuguese Crisis of 1383–85: Battle of Aljubarrota: Portuguese forces commanded by John I of Portugal defeat the Castilian army of John I of Castile. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aljubarrota)
- 1592 The first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands)
- 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. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villasur_expedition)
- 1814 A cease fire agreement, called the Convention of Moss, ends the Swedish–Norwegian War. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_of_Moss)
- 1816 The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_da_Cunha)
- 1880 Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Cathedral)
- 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. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Chord)
- 1893 France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plate)
- 1914 World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lorraine)
- 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Summer_Olympics)
- 1941 After a secret meeting in Newfoundland, British prime minister Winston Churchill and U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the Atlantic Charter, establishing a vision for a post–World War II world. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Charter)
- 1945 Kenji Hatanaka and other Japanese military officers launched an attempted coup d'état to prevent the surrender of Japan. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABj%C5%8D_incident)
- 1947 Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire as the Dominion of Pakistan, due to the partition of India. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_of_Pakistan)
- 1974 Turkey launches the second phase of the invasion of Cyprus, which eventually resulted in the Turkish occupation of 37% of Cyprus. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus)
- 1975 The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in London, the first in its record-breaking run in cinemas, which continues in limited release. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Picture_Show)
- 1980 Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa)
- 1994 Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_the_Jackal)
- 2005 Helios Airways Flight 522 crashed into a mountain north of Marathon, Greece, killing all 121 people on board. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522)
- 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War)
- 2007 Four coordinated suicide bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi communities of Qahtaniya and Jazeera, Iraq, killing 796 people and wounding 1,562 others. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qahtaniyah_bombings)
- 2010 The inaugural edition of the Youth Olympic Games opened in Singapore for athletes aged between 14 and 18. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Summer_Youth_Olympics)
- 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. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabaa_massacre)
- 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. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Haiti_earthquake)

## Born on August 14

- 1688 Frederick William I of Prussia (died 1740) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_I_of_Prussia)
- 1742 Pope Pius VII (died 1823) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_VII)
- 1777 Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist (died 1851) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_%C3%98rsted)
- 1867 John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1933) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galsworthy)
- 1871 Guangxu Emperor of China (died 1908) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangxu_Emperor)
- 1876 Alexander I of Serbia (died 1903) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_I_of_Serbia)
- 1926 René Goscinny, French author and illustrator (died 1977) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Goscinny)
- 1928 Lina Wertmüller, Italian director and screenwriter (died 2021) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Wertm%C3%BCller)
- 1933 Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_R._Ernst)
- 1941 David Crosby, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2023) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crosby)
- 1945 Wim Wenders, German director, producer, and screenwriter [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Wenders)
- 1945 Steve Martin, American actor, comedian, musician, producer, and screenwriter [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Martin)
- 1947 Danielle Steel, American author [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Steel)
- 1953 James Horner, American composer and conductor (died 2015) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Horner)
- 1959 Magic Johnson, American basketball player and coach [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Johnson)
- 1959 Marcia Gay Harden, American actress [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Gay_Harden)
- 1960 Sarah Brightman, English singer and actress [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Brightman)
- 1966 Halle Berry, American model, actress, and producer [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halle_Berry)
- 1983 Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-American actress [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mila_Kunis)
- 1984 Giorgio Chiellini, Italian footballer [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Chiellini)
- 1984 Robin Söderling, Swedish tennis player [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_S%C3%B6derling)
- 1989 Ander Herrera, Spanish footballer [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ander_Herrera)

## Died on August 14

- 582 Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine emperor [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_II_Constantine)
- 1433 John I of Portugal (born 1357) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_I_of_Portugal)
- 1464 Pope Pius II (born 1405) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_II)
- 1941 Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1854) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sabatier_(chemist))
- 1941 Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr and saint (born 1894) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Kolbe)
- 1951 William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (born 1863) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst)
- 1956 Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and director (born 1898) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht)
- 1956 Konstantin von Neurath, German lawyer and politician, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1873) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_von_Neurath)
- 1958 Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Joliot-Curie)
- 1985 Gale Sondergaard, American actress (born 1899) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Sondergaard)
- 1988 Enzo Ferrari, Italian racing driver and businessman, founded Ferrari (born 1898) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzo_Ferrari)
- 1994 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Canetti)
- 2004 Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born American novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czes%C5%82aw_Mi%C5%82osz)
- 2024 Gena Rowlands, American actress (born 1930) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gena_Rowlands)

## Holidays and observances

- Christian feast day: Arnold of Soissons [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_of_Soissons)
- Christian feast day: Domingo Ibáñez de Erquicia [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domingo_Ib%C3%A1%C3%B1ez_de_Erquicia)
- Christian feast day: Eusebius of Rome [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusebius_of_Rome)
- Christian feast day: Fachtna of Rosscarbery [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fachtna_of_Rosscarbery)
- Christian feast day: Jonathan Myrick Daniels (Episcopal Church) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Daniels)
- Christian feast day: Maria Elisabetta Renzi [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Elisabetta_Renzi)
- Christian feast day: Martyrs of Otranto [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs_of_Otranto)
- Christian feast day: Maximilian Kolbe [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Kolbe)
- National Navajo Code Talkers Day is a holiday in the United States honoring Navajo code talkers in the military. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo)
- Falklands Day is the celebration of the first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis in 1592. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davis_(explorer))
- Independence Day celebrates the independence of Pakistan from the United Kingdom in 1947. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(Pakistan))
- Partition Horrors Remembrance Day commemorates the victims and sufferings of people during the Partition of India in 1947. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_Horrors_Remembrance_Day)

## Sources

- [Wikipedia — “August 14”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_14) — events, births, deaths and observances (text under CC BY-SA 4.0) (checked 2026-10-15)
- [Wikipedia — “Selected anniversaries/August 14”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_14) — the anniversaries editors chose for the date and the article each one is about (checked 2026-10-15)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) — in how many language editions each entry's own article exists, used to fill the lists (CC0) (checked 2026-10-15)
- [vacanza/holidays (open-source holiday rules, MIT licence)](https://github.com/vacanza/holidays) — holiday rules used to build the lists (checked 2026-10-15)

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article [“August 14”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_14) and the articles it links to ([authors and history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_14?action=history)), retrieved 2026-10-15 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this selection is shared under the same licence. Every anniversary that Wikipedia's editors selected for August 14 stays on the list; the remaining places, up to 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths, go to the entries whose own article — about the event itself, or else the person or thing it is about — appears in the most language editions (counted from Wikidata); an article about a person or thing, which covers far more than one day, counts half. An entry with no article of its own counts, also at half, by the least covered article it links, and one that links only places counts for nothing. Each list runs by year, and the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures, audio and video.

## August 14 in the calendar

| Year | Weekday | ISO week | Moon (UTC) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | Friday | 2026-W33 | 🌒 Waxing Crescent |
| 2027 | Saturday | 2027-W32 | 🌔 Waxing Gibbous |
| 2028 | Monday | 2028-W33 | 🌘 Waning Crescent |
| 2029 | Tuesday | 2029-W33 | 🌒 Waxing Crescent |
| 2030 | Wednesday | 2030-W33 | 🌖 Waning Gibbous |

Moon phases are for the day in UTC; at the edges of a phase your local date can differ.

## Public holidays on August 14

- [🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates](https://whathappen.today/holidays/united-arab-emirates/): Prophet's Birthday (estimated) (2027)

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