Historical Events and Current Affairs on August 14

Ravenna becomes seat of Byzantines milt governor in Italy
1248: Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun
1281: Kublai Khans invading fleet disappears in typhoon near Japan
1385: Battle at Aljubarotta-Portugal defeats Castili‰
1385: Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota, retain independence
1395: Utrecht bishop Frederik of Blankenheim occupies Coevorden
1457: Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg)
1498: Columbus landed at the mouth of the Orinoco River in Venezuela
1551: Turkish fleet under Dragut occupies Tripoli
1559: Spanish explorer de Luna lands in Pensacola Bay,Fla
1585: Queen Elizabeth I refuses sovereignty of Netherlands
1597: Cornelis de Houtmans fleet is 1st Dutch visit to Java
1624: Dutch fleet ceases Callao the Lima in Peru
1636: Spanish troops occupy Corbie at Amiens
1642: Able Tasmans ships Heemskerck/Zeehaen depart out of Batavia
1678: Battle of Mons-French repulse William of Orange
1743: Prussian army occupies Saksen, beginning 2nd Silezian War
1756: French capture Fort Oswego, NY
1758: Battle at Zorndorf: Prussia beat Russia, 1000s killed
1762: English fleet occupies Havana
1765: Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)
1782: Suriname forbids selling slave mothers without their babies
1790: Sweden & Russia sign Peace of Verela
1813: British warship Pelican attacks & captures US war brigantine Argus
1816: Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha
1820: 1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC
1824: General Lafayette returns to US
1825: Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out
1842: Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma
1846: Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance
1848: Oregon Territory created
1861: 79th NY troops mutinies
1861: Martial Law is declared at St Louis MI
1862: Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with US president
1864: -16] Confederate General Joe Wheeler besieges Dalton, Georgia
1864: 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia: Federal assault
1870: C H F Peters discovers asteroid #111 Ate
1873: Field & Stream begins publishing
1875: Society of Regte Afrikaanders establishes in Paarl
1876: Prairie View State University forms
1880: Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed (began in 1248)
1882: Queen Victoria recieves Zulu chief Cetewayo
1890: Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Fort Victoria)
1893: France issues 1st driving licenses, included required test
1900: 1st electric tram in Netherland (Leidseplein-Brouwersgracht)
1900: 2,000 marines land to capture Beijing, ending Boxer rebellion
1901: D Stewart discovers asteroid #475 Ocllo
1901: SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska & sinks killing 70
1903: James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 10 for heavywgt boxing title
1904: Max Wolf discovers asteroid #3907 Kilmartin
1905: Ngindo-rebellion killed 5 RC German clergymen in East-Africa
1907: Ha-Tikva adopted as official Zionist hymn
1908: Race riot in Springfield Illinois
1910: 6th International Congress of Esperantists held in Washington, DC
1911: General Leconte appointed temporary pres of Haiti
1912: 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925
1914: British field marshal John French & Gen Wilson land in France
1915: British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000
1917: China declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I
1917: Leeuwen soccer team forms
1919: White Sox Happy Felsch ties record of 4 outfield assists in a game
1919: Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple-play
1920: Little Entente formed by Czechoslovakia & Yugoslavia
1920: Olympic Games open in Antwerp
1922: 1st old time musicians broadcasted on radio (Jenkins-WSB Atlanta)
1925: Mount Rushmore 1st proposed
1928: Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur's Front Page, premieres in NYC
1929: Jewish Agency for Palestine forms
1932: 10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles closes
1932: Dodger John Quinn, 49, is oldest pitcher to win a major league game
1932: Philips makes 1 millionth radio
1933: Jimmie Foxx hits for cycle & sets AL record with 9 RBIs
1935: Social Security Act becomes law
1936: 1st Olympic basketball game (Berlin)
1937: China declares war on Japan
1937: Detroit Tigers score 36 runs in double header vs St Louis Browns
1938: BBC's 1st feature film on TV (Student of Prague)
1939: 1st night games at Comiskey Park (White Sox 5, Browns 2)
1940: Dutch Premier De Geer vacations in Switzerland
1941: Atlantic Charter signed by FDR & Churchill
1942: Dwight D Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa
1943: -Aug 24th: Quadrant conference over strike in Pacific Ocean
1943: 1st allied air raid on Borneo
1943: US 45th Division occupies Falcone 40 km outside of Messina
1944: British premier Winston Churchill arrives at Corsica
1944: Operation Tractable: new Canadian offensive
1944: Russian offensive at Weichsel
1945: V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II
1947: India granted independence within British Commonwealth
1947: Mildred Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for $300,000
1947: Pakistan gains independence from Britain
1948: 14th Olympic games close at London, Great Britain
1949: Military coup under colonel Sami Hinnawi in Syria
1952: M ty s R kosi appointed premier of Hungary
1953: 20th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 24, All-Stars 10 (93,818)
1953: KXLF TV channel 4 in Butte, MT (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954: WGR TV (now WGRZ) TV channel 2 in Buffalo, NY (NBC) begins
1958: Cleve Indian, Vic Power steals home twice in 1 game
1958: KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99
1959: 26th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 29, All-Stars 0 (70,000)
1959: AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver & Houston
1961: Phila Phillies lose 17th straight game
1962: French & Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel
1962: NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m
1962: US mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
1964: Bo Belinsky is suspended after attacking sportswriter Braven Dyer
1964: Egypt/Iraq/Jordan/Kuwait/Syria form common market
1965: Beatles tape an appearance for Ed Sullivan Show
1965: Sonny & Cher's I Got You Babe hits #1
1966: 1st US lunar orbiter begins orbiting Moon
1966: Cleveland Stadium's 1st rock concert is held, featuring Beatles
1966: L Chernykh discovers asteroids #1828 Kashirina & #2467 Kollontai
1966: L I Chernykh & T M Smirnova discover asteroid #4135 Svetlanov
1967: Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, Congo, plundered
1967: Pirate radio stations Radio 270, Radio London, Radio Ireland,
1967: Radio Scotland & Radio Swinging Holland go off the air
1968: Jimmy Ellis beats Floyd Patterson in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1968: Montreal Expos officially become a member of NL
1969: British troops intervene militarily in Northern Ireland
1970: City University of NY inaugurates open admissions
1970: Steven Stills arrested for drug possession
1971: Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule
1971: British begin internment without trial in Northern Ireland
1972: Bloody Sunday: British soldiers fire into crowd, kill 13
1972: East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156
1973: Johnny Unitas files $725,000 suit against Balt Colts
1973: US ends secret bombing of Cambodia
1974: Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold
1974: Turkish army attacks Nicosia Cyprus
1975: -15] Pakistani military coup against president Mujib ur-Rahman
1975: Asteroid #2994 discovered
1975: Dmitri Shotakovitch, buried at the Novodevitshi-convent
1975: Norwegian King Olav V opens Longyearbyen Airport on Spitsbergen
1976: 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast
1977: #2579 Spartacus, #2670 Chuvashia, #4982 Bartini & #5661 Hildebrand
1977: 77,691 see NY Cosmos beat Ft Lauderdale Strikers 8-3 at Giant Stad
1977: N Chernykh discovers asteroids 2294, 2477 Biryukov, 2497 Kulikovskij,
1978: French TV announced a rating of 0 for a program about an Armenian's
1978: woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleanic drama-67%, Knockout-33%)
1979: Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hours duration
1979: Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #2474 Ruby
1980: 17,000 workers strike in Gdansk, Poland
1980: Democratic Convention in NYC nominates Jimmy Carter & Walter Mondale
1980: In Lenin Shipyard Gdansk Poland, 17,000 workers go on strike
1980: P Jekabsons & M P Candy discover asteroid #3894 Williamcooke
1980: Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #2390 Nezarka & #7375
1981: George Foster hits his 8th HR into red seats at Riverfront
1981: Phils Mike Schmidt hits his 300th career HR off NY Met Mike Scott
1982: A Mrkos discovers asteroid #6469
1982: Atlanta snaps an 11-game losing streak with a 6-5 win over Padres
1982: Iran Ramadan-offensive in Iraq
1982: N S Chernykh discovers asteroid #3945 Gerasimenko & #5714 Krasinsky
1982: Pete Rose (Phillies) 12,365 at bat sets record (passes Aaron)
1983: Robert de Castella wins Helsinki marathon (2:10:03
1984: IBM releases PC DOS version 3.0
1984: West Indies complete 5-0 series annihilation of England
1985: #4570 Runcorn, #4664 Hanner, #4694 Festou, #7640 & #8075
1985: E Bowell discovers asteroid #3327 Campins, #4338 Velez, #4373 Crespo,
1986: Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrested
1986: Phillies & Pirates play a 6 game series in 4 days
1987: Les Miserables, opens at Rock Theatre, Szeged Hungary
1987: Oakland's Mark McGwire sets rookie HR record at 39, en route to 49
1987: T Seki discovers asteroid #3935 Toatenmongakkai
1988: C S Shoemaker discovers asteroid #4791 Iphidamas
1988: Detroit beats Sox, 18-6, at Fenway, ends Boston winning streak at 24
1988: E W Elst discovers asteroid #4380 Geyer & #5232 Jordaens
1989: President Pieter W Botha of South Africa, resigns
1990: Angel's Louis Palonia is 74th to hit an inside park grandslam
1991: Comedian Jackie Mason marries his manager Jyll Rosenfeld (37)
1991: Twins Dave Winfield is 23rd to hit 400 HR
1993: Dr William Masters (78) weds college sweetheart Geraldine Oliver (76)
1993: Nigerian presidential election
1993: Reggie Jackson Day - NY Yanks retire 13th # (#44)
1993: Shari Beadley weds Christopher Martin (Kid 'n Play)
1993: St Louis reliever Lee Smith is fastest to get 40 saves
1994: Doc Gooden leaves Betty Ford Center
1994: Space telescope Hubble photographs Uranus with rings
1994: Terrorist Carlos arrested in Khartoum Sudan
1995: Shannon Faulkner becomes 1st woman to attend the Citadel
1997: 1776, opens at Criterion Theater NYC
1997: Convicted Okla City bomber Timothy McVeigh formally sentenced to death
1997: Okla Court of Appeals upholds death sentence of Timothy McVeigh
1997: Soyuz TM-25 lands
2002: 1 USD = INR 48.59
2002: BSE Sensex
2126: Comet Swift-Tuttle (í 5 km) approaches close to Earth

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