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Today in History ~ August 14
Events0410 - Alaric sacks Rome
0554 - Ravenna becomes seat of Byzantines military governor in Italy
1248 - Construction of Cologne Cathedral is begun
1281 - Kublai Khan's invading fleet disappears in typhoon off of Japan
1385 - Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota retain independence
1457 - Oldest known exactly dated printed book (3 years after Gutenberg)
1498 - Columbus landed at the mouth of the Orinoco River in Venezuela
1756 - French capture Fort Oswego, NY
1765 - Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)
1784 - First Russian settlement in Alaska, on Kodiak Island, Grigori Shelekhov, a Russian fur trader, founded Three Saints Bay on Kodiak Island. [H]
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
1842 - The second of three Seminole wars ended. Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma
1846 - Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance.
1848 - The Oregon Territory was established.
1861 - Martial Law is declared at St Louis MI
1864 - 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia: Federal assault
1864 - Confederate General Joe Wheeler besieges Dalton, Georgia
1880 - Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed (began in 1248)
1900 - During the Boxer Rebellion, a multinational force, featuring British, Russian, American, Japanese, French, and German troops, entered Beijing to put down the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreign influence. [H]
1907 - "Ha-Tikva" adopted as official Zionist hymn
1908 - Race riot in Springfield Illinois
1912 - 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925
1915 - British transport Royal Edward sunk by German U boat kills 1000
1917 - China declared war on Germany and Austria during World War I.
1919 - Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple play
1925 - Mount Rushmore 1st proposed
1928 - Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur's "Front Page," premieres in NYC
1932 - Philips makes 1 millionth radio
1935 - US Congress passed the Social Security Act and President Franklin D. Roosevelt immediately signed it into law.
1937 - China declares war on Japan
1941 - Atlantic Charter signed by FDR & Churchill
1942 - Dwight D Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa
1945 - President Truman announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II.
1947 - India and Pakistan separately granted independence within British Commonwealth
1958 - Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29 Edmonton 21)
1958 - KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99
1962 - French & Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel
1962 - US mail truck in Plymouth Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
1965 - Beatles tape an appearance for Ed Sullivan Show
1965 - Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" hits #1
1966 - 1st US lunar orbiter
1967 - Radio Scotland & Radio Swinging Holland go off the air
1969 - British troops intervene militarily in Northern Ireland this culminated in an attack on the Bogside which stated on August 12, ending on the 14th; 500 houses were burned to the ground, 1,500 people forced from their homes, and 9 people murdered
1970 - City University of NY inaugurates open admissions
1971 - Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule
1973 - U.S. bombing of Cambodia came to a halt.
1974 - Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold
1975 - Dmitri Shotakovitch, buried at the Novodevitshi-convent
1976 - 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast
1977 - 77 691 see NY Cosmos beat Ft Lauderdale Strikers 8-3 at Giant Stad
1980 - In Lenin Shipyard Gdansk Poland, 17,000 workers go on strike
1980 - President Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale were nominated for a second term at the Democratic national convention in New York.
1981 - Pope John Paul II left a Rome hospital, three months after being wounded in an attempt on his life.
1982 - Iran "Ramadan-offensive" in Iraq
1982 - Pete Rose (Phillies) 12,365 at bat sets record (passes Aaron)
1984 - IBM releases PC DOS version 3.0
1986 - Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrested
1989 - President Pieter W Botha of South Africa, resigns
1990 - Denver vote for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise
1991 - Freed American hostage Edward Tracy returned to the United States, arriving in Boston, where he was reunited with his sister, Maria Lambert.
1991 - President Bush expressed "100 percent" support for United Nations efforts to mediate a settlement to the Middle East hostage crisis.
1991 - The Justice Department accused General Electric of fraud for billing the Pentagon $30 million for the non- existent sale of F-16 parts to the Israeli military.
1992 - The White House announced that the Pentagon would begin emergency airlifts of food to Somalia to alleviate mass deaths by starvation.
1993 - Dr William Masters (78) weds college sweetheart Geraldine Oliver (76)
1994 - Space telescope Hubble photographs Uranus with rings
1994 - Notorious international terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal" was captured Khartoum in Sudan. He was extradited to France the next day.
1995 - Following a long legal battle, Shannon Faulkner was admitted to the cadet corps of the previously all-male Citadel. She would resign four days later.
1996 - In Peru, 35 people were electrocuted when a stray rocket during a fireworks show knocked down a high-tension line.
1996 - The Republican national convention in San Diego nominated Bob Dole for president and Jack Kemp for vice president in an evening that featured a talk-show-style testimonial by Elizabeth Dole, who strolled the convention floor with a wireless microphone.
1997 - Timothy McVeigh, convicted on fifteen counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, was sentenced to die by lethal injection.
2000 - On the opening night of the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, President Clinton offered a triumphant review of his years in office, and exhorted delegates to propel Al Gore on the road to succeed him.
2001 - Twenty people detained in riots at the Group of Eight summit in Italy the previous month were ordered released by a Genoa court. They included 15 Austrians, three Americans, a Slovak and a Swede.
Birthdays Today
1552 - Fra Paolo Sarpi, [Paulus Venetus], expert/philosopher
1810 - Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer
1831 - John X. Beidler, Montana "Vigilante X" is born in Pennsylvania. [H]
1836 - Walter Besant, writer/philanthropist (Rebel Queen)
1840 - Baron Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist
1851 - John Henry "Doc" Holliday in Griffin, Georgia [H]
1863 - Ernest Thayer (writer: Casey at the Bat)
1867 - John Galsworthy (Nobel Prize-winning author [1932]; The Forsyte Saga)
1903 - John Ringling North, circus director (Ringling Bros)
1920 - Nehemiah Persoff, Jerusalem Palestine, actor (Al Capone, Yentl)
1924 - Georges Pretre, Waziers France, conductor (NY Met)
1925 - Russell Baker, Loudoun County, Va, columnist/humorist (NY Times)
1926 - Alice Ghostley (actress: Designing Women, Bewitched, Mayberry R.F.D., The Graduate, To Kill a Mockingbird, With Six You Get Eggroll)
1926 - Buddy (Armando) Greco (singer: Mr. Lonely, The Lady is a Tramp, I Ran All the Way Home; musician: piano)
1928 - Lina Wertmueller, [Arcanguela von Elgg], Rome, actress (7 Beauties)
1929 - Dick Tiger (Ihetu) (International Boxing Hall of Famer: world champion middleweight boxer [1962-63, 1964], lightweight champion [1965-68])
1930 - Earl Weaver (baseball: Baltimore Orioles manager; TV analyst: ABC's Monday Night Baseball, playoffs, World Series; autobiography: It's What You Learn After You Know It All that Counts)
1935 - John Brodie (College Football Hall of Famer: Stanford University quarterback; San Francisco '49ers; sportscaster: NBC Sports)
1937 - Joel Horlen (baseball)
1940 - Dash Crofts (musician: drums, mandolin, keyboard: w/Champs: Tequila; singer: duo: Seals and Crofts: Summer Breeze, Diamond Girl, Get Closer, We May Never Pass This Way Again, You're the Love, Hummingbird)
1941 - Connie Smith (Meadows) (singer: Once a Day, Ain't Had No Lovin', The Hurtin's All Over, Baby's Back Again, Just One Time)
1941 - David Crosby (Van Cortland) (musician: guitar, songwriter: singer: Immigration Man; group: The Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man; group: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Teach Your Children, Woodstock, Suite: Judy Blue Eyes)
1945 - Joyce Kazmierski (golf)
1945 - Steve Martin (Emmy Award-winning comedy writer: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour [1968-69]; comedian, actor: All of Me, Roxanne, LA Story, Parenthood, Father of the Bride, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Jerk, The Man with Two Brains, Three Amigos, Planes, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Saturday Night Live)
1946 - Larry Graham (musician: bassist, singer: groups: Sly and the Family Stone; Graham Central Station: Your Love; solo: One in a Million, I Never Forgot Your Eyes)
1946 - Susan St. James (Miller) (Emmy Award-winning actress: The Name of the Game [1968-69]; McMillan and Wife, Kate and Allie, Carbon Copy, Love at First Bite, Desperate Women)
1947 - Daniele Steel, NYC, author (Rememberance, Zoya, Star, Vanished, Wanderlust, Daddy)
1950 - Gary Larson (cartoonist: The Far Side)
1951 - Warren Capone (football: Dallas Cowboys linebacker: Super Bowl X)
1952 - Debbie Meyer (International Women's Sports and Olympic Hall of Famer: the 1st swimmer to win three gold medals at one single Olympics [1968: 200, 400 & 800-meter]; 1968 Sullivan Award- winner; AP Woman Athlete of the Year [1969])
1953 - Mark Johnson (football)
1954 - Mark 'The Bird' Fidrych (baseball: Detroit Tigers pitcher; Rookie of the Year [1976])
1959 - Magic (Earvin Jr.) Johnson (basketball: LA Lakers: NBA individual record: career assists [9,921]; NBA MVP [1987, 89, 90]; Olympic Dream Team [1992])
1961 - Susan Olsen (actress: The Bradys, The Brady Bunch Hour, The Brady Bunch)
Famous deaths
1167 - Raynald van Dassel, archbishop of Cologne, dies
1587 - Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer, dies at 49
1652 - Abraham Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 60
1727 - William Croft, composer, dies at 48
1778 - Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies
1870 - David [James] Glasgow Farragut, admiral, dies
1932 - Rin Tin Tin, US Hollywood-dog, dies
1936 - Rainey Bethea, hanged, last US public execution
1941 - Josef Jakobs, German spy, executed in Tower of London
1951 - William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills
1956 - Bertold Brecht, German writer (Mother Courage), dies at 58
1956 - Freiherr Constantine von Neurath, German foreign min under Hitler (1932-38), dies
1958 - Frederic Joliot-Curie, French nuclear physicist (Nobel 1936), dies
1969 - Leonard Sidney Woolf, English publisher/writer, dies at 88
1971 - Georg von Opel, German auto manufacturer, dies at 59
1981 - Karl Bohm, Austria conductor (prospered under the Nazis), dies at 86
1988 - Enzo Ferrari, Italy, sportscar manufacturer (Ferrari), dies at 90
1992 - John J Sirica, US, judge (Watergate), dies at 88
1996 - Sergiu Celibidache, conductor (would not use recording studio), dies at 84
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