14 August
Notable Births
Marsai Martin
b. 2004
American actress (born 2004)
Doechii
b. 1998
American rapper (born 1998)
Greet Minnen
b. 1997
Belgian tennis player (born 1997)
Léolia Jeanjean
b. 1995
French tennis player (born 1995)
Maya Jama
b. 1994
British television and radio presenter (born 1994)
Richard Freitag
b. 1991
German ski jumper (born 1991)
Giovanny Gallegos
b. 1991
Mexican baseball player (born 1991)
Ander Herrera
b. 1989
Spanish footballer (born 1989)
Kyle Turris
b. 1989
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1989)
Johnny Gargano
b. 1987
American professional wrestler (born 1987)
David Peralta
b. 1987
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1987)
Tim Tebow
b. 1987
American football and baseball player (born 1987)
Christian Gentner
b. 1985
German footballer
Shea Weber
b. 1985
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1985)
Eva Birnerová
b. 1984
Czech tennis player
Clay Buchholz
b. 1984
American baseball pitcher (born 1984)
Giorgio Chiellini
b. 1984
Italian footballer (born 1984)
Josh Gorges
b. 1984
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1984)
Nick Grimshaw
b. 1984
English television and radio presenter (born 1984)
Robin Söderling
b. 1984
Swedish tennis player
Notable Deaths
Mike Castle
d. 2025
American politician (1939–2025)
Gena Rowlands
d. 2024
American actress (1930–2024)
Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
d. 2023
Bangladeshi politician (1940–2023)
Michael Aung-Thwin
d. 2021
Burmese American historian and professor (1946–2021)
Julian Bream
d. 2020
English classical guitarist and lutenist (1933–2020)
Angela Buxton
d. 2020
British tennis player (1934–2020)
Jim Thompson (Illinois politician)
d. 2020
Governor of Illinois from 1977 to 1991
Polly Farmer
d. 2019
Australian rules footballer and coach (1935–2019)
Jill Janus
d. 2018
American heavy metal singer (1975–2018)
Fyvush Finkel
d. 2016
American actor
Bob Johnston
d. 2015
American record producer and musician (1932–2015)
George V. Hansen
d. 2014
American politician
Vilasrao Deshmukh
d. 2012
Indian politician (1945–2012)
Svetozar Gligorić
d. 2012
Serbian chess grandmaster (1923–2012)
Phyllis Thaxter
d. 2012
American actress (1919–2012)
Tikhon Khrennikov
d. 2007
Soviet-Russian composer (1913–2007)
Bruno Kirby
d. 2006
American actor (1949–2006)
Czesław Miłosz
d. 2004
Polish-American poet and Nobel laureate (1911–2004)
Helmut Rahn
d. 2003
German footballer (1929–2003)
Clifford Odets
d. 1963
American writer and actor (1906–1963)
On This Day in History
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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.
Donald Trump
2022
An explosion destroys a market in Armenia, killing six people and injuring dozens.
2022 Yerevan explosion
2021
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis.
2021 Haiti earthquake
2018
The collapse of the Ponte Morandi bridge in Genoa, Italy, left 16 people injured and 43 people killed.
Ponte Morandi collapse
2015
The U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–United States relations were broken off.
Embassy of the United States, Havana
2013
Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
Egypt
2013
UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing both crew members on board.
UPS Airlines Flight 1354
2007
The Kahtaniya bombings kill at least 500 people.
Qahtaniyah bombings
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.
2006 Lebanon War
2006
Sri Lankan Civil War: Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lanka Air Force air strike.
Sri Lankan civil war
2005
Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
Helios Airways Flight 522
2003
A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
Northeast blackout of 2003
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.
Killing of Solomos Solomou
1994
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
Carlos the Jackal
1980
Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
Lech Wałęsa
1974
Turkey launches the second phase of the invasion of Cyprus, which eventually resulted in the Turkish occupation of 37% of Cyprus.
Turkish invasion of Cyprus
1972
An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany killing 156 people.
Interflug Flight 450
1971
Bahrain declares independence from Britain.
Bahrain
1969
The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland as political and sectarian violence breaks out, marking the start of the 37-year Operation Banner.
The Troubles
1967
UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act 1967 declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967