On This Day August 14th

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August 14th is the two-hundredth-twenty-sixth day of the year, and there are 139 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Events

 

1264 – After tricking the Venetian galley fleet into sailing east to the Levant, the Genoese capture an entire Venetian trade convoy at the Battle of Saseno.

1592 – The first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis.

1791 – Enslaved people from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking the start of the Haitian Revolution.

1816 – The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.

1842 – American Indian Wars: The Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida.

1848 –Congress organized the Oregon Territory.

1920—The 1920 Summer Olympics, having started four months earlier, officially opened in Antwerp, Belgium. For the first time in Olympic history, the newly adopted Olympic flag and the Olympic oath were raised and taken at the Opening Ceremony.

1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Atlantic Charter of War, which stated postwar aims.

1959 – Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.

1980 – Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdansk, Poland shipyards.

2015 – The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba, re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–United States relations were broken off.

2021 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis.

 

Birthdays

 1738 – Leopold Hofmann, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1793)

1777 – Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist (d. 1851)

1851 – Doc Holliday, American dentist and gambler (d. 1887)

1867 – John Galsworthy, English novelist, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1933)

1881 – Francis Ford, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1953)

1890 – Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (d. 1946)

1912 – Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (d. 1985)

1916 – Wellington Mara, American businessman (d. 2005)

1930 – Earl Weaver, American baseball player and manager (d. 2013)

1941 – Connie Smith, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist

1945 – Steve Martin, American actor, comedian, musician, producer, and screenwriter.

1950 – Gary Larson, American cartoonist.

1959 – Magic Johnson, American basketball player and coach

1987 – Tim Tebow, American football and baseball player and sportscaster.

  

Holiday Spotlight

 Navajo Code Talkers Day

The CIA's official website said that Navajo was a "perfect" language for creating military codes. It wasn't the language itself that was the code, it was a form of communication encrypted using Navajo. This code remained unbreakable throughout the war because most people couldn't decipher it. That's why Americans celebrate National Navajo Code Talkers Day every year. In 2020, Governor Doug Ducey made it a legal state holiday to honor the courage of the Navajo Code Talkers and their important role in the victory in WWII. According to him, the Navajo Code Talkers are heroes.

 

Holidays And Observance.

 Color Book Day

International Rose' Day

Military Marriage Day

National Creamsicle Day

National Financial Awareness Day

National Navajo Code Talkers Day

National Tattoo Removal Day

National Wiffle Ball Day

Social Security Day

V-J Day

World Calligraphy Day

World Lizard Day

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