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14 August In history
1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan. (Traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei).
1385 - Portuguese Crisis of 1383–1385: Battle of Aljubarrota - Portuguese forces commanded by King João I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King Juan I. 1598 - Nine Years War: Battle of the Yellow Ford - Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal. 1791 - Ceremony at Bois Caiman, Haiti; Haitian Revolution begins. 1842 - Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma. 1846 - The Cape Girardeau meteorite, a 2.3 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes near the town of Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. 1848 - Congress created the Oregon Territory, an area encompassing present-day Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and western Montana. 1880 - Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, completed. 1881 - Completion of the construction of Cologne Cathedral - the work having been started in 1248. 1885 - Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint. 1893 - France introduces motor vehicle registration. plates are introduced. 1897 - The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar. 1900 - A joint European-Japanese-United States force (Eight-Nation Alliance) occupies Beijing, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China. 1901 - The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21. 1908 - Staging of Britain's first international beauty contest - at the Pier Hippodrome in Folkestone, England. 1911 - United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death. 1912 - United States Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya resigned three years earlier. 1921 - Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Russia). 1928 - The world's first scheduled television pro grammes are broadcast by WRNY in New York. 1925 - The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line. 1933 - Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (970 km²). 1935 - United States Social Security Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired. 1936 - Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States. 1941 - World War II - Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims. 1945 - Japan agrees to surrender to the Allies. The decision, which brought an end to the most costly war in human history, came after a momentous week that saw two U.S. atomic bombs dropped on Japan and a declaration of war by the Soviets. In the evening, 1,000 Japanese army officers attacked the imperial palace with the intention of seizing a recorded message of Emperor Hirohito announcing the surrender; the imperial guards repulsed them. The next day, Hirohito's speech, which asked his people to endure the unendurable, was played on national radio, and hundreds of millions of people around the world celebrated V-J Day. Victory over Japan Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan standard time). 1947 - Pakistan (my love my janu) gains Independence from the British Indian Empire under the administration of United Kingdom and joins the British Commonwealth. (its also 27th of Ramadan Allahmudallah ) 1948 - Australian cricketer Don Bradman plays his last Test match innings at the Oval Cricket Ground in London. After receiving a standing ovation, he is bowled out for nought - blinded, its claimed, by the tears in his eyes. 1948 - Opening of the Olympic Games in London. 1967 - UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. 1969 - British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland - to help quell sectarian riots in Londonderry. 1969 - Keith Castle becomes the first British patient to receive a heart transplant. 1972 - An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156. 1979 - 15 yachtsmen are killed by a Force 10 gale during the Fastnet Yacht Race. 1979 - Former MP John Stonehouse is released from prison after being jailed for trying to fake his own death. 1976 - The Senegalese political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized. PAI-Rénovation thus becomes the third legal party in the country. 1980 - Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at Gdańsk, Poland shipyards. 1986 - Pakistan politician Benazir Bhutto, eldest daughter of former president Ali Bhutto who had been executed for murder and corruption in 1979, is arrested and detained in prison under the orders of President Zia. 1994 - Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured. 2000 - Rescuers race to save stricken Kursk. A rescue operation is underway to save the lives of more than 100 sailors on board a Russian submarine grounded at the bottom of the Barents Sea. 2003 - Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada. 2004 - Sales tax holiday in Massachusetts. All sales taxes are suspended on purchases of $2500 or less. 2005 - Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes north of Athens, killing the 121 on board. 2006 - The 2006 Lebanon War cease fire goes into effect. Births 1297 - Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan 1473 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence 1575 - Robert Hayman, English-born poet 1586 - William Hutchinson, Rhode Island colonist 1599 - Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar 1625 - François de Harlay de Champvallon, Archbishop of Paris 1642 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany 1653 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman 1688 - Frederick William I of Prussia 1714 - Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter 1740 - Pope Pius VII 1758 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter 1777 - Francis I of the Two Sicilies 1777 - Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist 1817 - Alexander H. Bailey, American politician 1840 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist 1847 - Robert Comtesse, member of the Swiss Federal Council 1851 - Doc Holliday, American gambler 1857 - Max Wagenknecht, German composer 1863 - Ernest Thayer, American poet 1865 - Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician 1866 - Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician 1867 - John Galsworthy, Nobel Prize Laureate 1867 - Cupid Childs, American baseball player 1876 - Aleksandar Obrenović, King of Serbia 1881 - Francis Ford (actor), American actor 1882 - Gisela Richter, English art historian 1909 - Manos Katrakis, Greek actor 1910 - Pierre Schaeffer, French composer 1911 - Vethathiri, Indian yogi 1913 - Paul Dean, American baseball player 1916 - Wellington Mara, Co-Owner of the New York Giants 1924 - Georges Prêtre, French conductor 1925 - Russell Baker, American columnist 1926 - René Goscinny, French comic-strip author 1926 - Lina Wertmüller, Italian film director 1929 - Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (d. 1971) 1930 - Earl Weaver, American baseball manager 1933 - Richard R. Ernst, Nobel Prize Laureate 1935 - John Brodie, American football player 1940 - Dash Crofts, American musician 1941 - David Crosby, American musician 1941 - Connie Smith, American singer 1943 - Jimmy Johnson, American football coach 1945 - Steve Martin, American comedian 1945 - Wim Wenders, German-born film director 1946 - Antonio Fargas, American actor 1946 - Susan Saint James, American actress 1946 - Larry Graham, American musician 1947 - Danielle Steel, American novelist 1950 - Bob Backlund, American wrestler 1950 - Gary Larson, American cartoonist 1952 - Carl Lumbly, American actor 1952 - Debbie Meyer, American swimmer 1953 - James Horner, American composer 1953 - Cliff Johnson, American computer game author 1954 - Mark Fidrych, American baseball player 1956 - Rusty Wallace, American race car driver 1956 - Luther Wamble, American guitarist 1957 - Gino Hernandez, American wrestler 1959 - Marcia Gay Harden, American actress 1959 - Magic Johnson, American basketball player 1960 - Sarah Brightman, English soprano 1961 - Susan Olsen, American actress 1961 - "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert, American wrestler 1964 - Brannon Braga, American scriptwriter 1965 - Emmanuelle Béart, French actress 1966 - Halle Berry, American actress 1968 - Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer 1968 - Billy Mavreas, Greek-Canadian cartoonist 1968 - Catherine Bell, American actress 1969 - Stig Tøfting, Danish footballer 1970 - Ctislav Doseděl, Czech tennis player 1972 - Jay Manuel, Canadian make-up artist 1973 - Daisuke Ishiwatari, Japanese game developer and composer 1973 - Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer 1973 - Jay-Jay Okocha, Nigerian footballer 1973 - Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer 1974 - Ana Matronic, singer 1974 - Chucky Atkins, American basketball player 1974 - Christopher Gorham, American actor 1976 - Steve Braun, Canadian actor 1977 - Juan Pierre, American baseball player 1978 - Anastasios Kyriakos, Greek footballer 1978 - Kate Ritchie, Australian actress 1979 - Paul Burgess, Australian athlete 1980 - Roy Williams, American football player 1981 - Julius Jones, American football player 1981 - Matthew Etherington, English footballer 1983 - Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-born tennis player 1983 - Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-born actress 1984 - Josh Gorges, Canadian ice hockey player 1985 - Christian Gentner, German footballer 1986 - Terin Humphrey, American gymnast Deaths 582 - Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine Emperor 1167 - Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne 1204 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun 1390 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier 1430 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant 1433 - King John I of Portugal 1464 - Pope Pius II 1573 - Saito Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord 1691 - Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel 1704 - Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader 1727 - William Croft, English composer 1774 - Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician 1784 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter 1856 - Constant Prévost, French geologist 1860 - André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist 1874 - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician 1905 - Simeon Solomon, British artist 1928 - Alfred Henschke, ps. Klabund, German writer, poet 1926 - John H. Moffitt, American politician 1938 - Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer 1941 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate 1941 - Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr 1943 - Joe Kelley, American baseball player 1951 - William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper magnate(US publishing tycoon) 1955 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress 1956 - Bertolt Brecht, German writer 1958 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate 1958 - Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat 1964 - Johnny Burnette, American Rockabilly singer 1967 - Bob Anderson, British racing driver 1972 - Oscar Levant, American actor 1972 - Pierre Brasseur, French actor 1972 - Jules Romains, French author 1978 - Nicolas Bentley, British writer 1980 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model 1981 - Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor 1984 - J. B. Priestley, English playwright 1984 - Spud Davis, American baseball player 1985 - Gale Sondergaard, American actress 1988 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker 1991 - Alberto Crespo, Argentine racing driver 1992 - John Sirica, American judge 1992 - Tony Williams, American singer (The Platters) 1994 - Elias Canetti, British-Austrian novelist 1996 - Tom Mees, American sportscaster 1999 - Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player 2000 - Alain Fournier, French-born computer graphics researcher 2002 - Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) 2003 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer 2004 - Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate 2005 - Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver 2006 - Bruno Kirby, American actor Holidays and observances Morocco - Allegiance of Oued Eddahab or Río de Oro. Pakistan - Independence Day (From the Indian Empire and from the British colonialist and imperialists under the foreign control of the United Kingdom, 1947). Paraguay - Flag Day. United States - National Creamsicles Day. 
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08-14-2007, 10:10 AM
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Quaid e azam with all the patriotic ppl have really done much hardwork...whose fruit will always be cherished...
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08-14-2007, 02:38 PM
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very nice ...thanks argon...
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08-14-2007, 09:40 PM
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