On this day in History - Aug 14

0582 - Morre o segundo imperador romano, Tibério.
1040 - King Duncan I of Scotland is killed in battle against his cousin and successor Macbeth
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: July 25, 1183).
1385 - 1383-1385 Crisis: Castilians are defeated by Portuguese at the Battle of Aljubarrota /Batalha de Aljubarrota. Uma hoste comandada por D. João, Mestre de Aviz e D. Nuno Álvares Pereira, vencem a hoste do rei de Castela, D. João.
1433 - King John I of Portugal dies
1464 - Pope Pius II dies (b. 18 Oct 1405)
1473 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury was born. Daughter of George, Duke of Clarence

1498 - Cristóvão Colombo descobre, durante sua terceira viagem, a Ilha Margarita, no litoral venezuelano. A ilha é conhecida por suas pescarias de pérolas.

1502 - Em sua quarta e última viagem, Colombo desembarca em Honduras e se credita a ele o nome do país. Quando Colombo pisou no país, ele deu o nome Honduras devido à profundidade do mar próximo da costa.

1552 - Paolo Sarpi was born (d. 14 Jan 1623). Venetian patriot and scholar
1556 - Os portugueses se estabelecem definitivamente na China, próximo de Cantão, onde fundam Macau.

1575 - Diego Hurtado de Mendoza was born. Spanish writer.
1598 - Irish under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, destroy English force at the Battle of the Yellow Ford.
1625 - François de Harlay de Champvallon was born (d. 1965). Archbishop of Paris
1642 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany was born (d. 31 Oct 1723)
1653 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle was born (d. 1688). English statesman.
1688 - Frederick William I of Prussia was born (d. 1740)
1691 - Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel dies (b. 1630). Irish rebel.
1704 - Roland Laporte dies (b. 1675). French protestant leader.
1740 - Pope Pius VII (Luigi Barnabà Chiaramonti) was born (d. 1823).
1754 - Morte de D. Maria Ana de Áustria (esposa de D. João V)
1784 - Nathaniel Hone dies (b. 1718). Irish-born painter
1727 - William Croft dies (b. 1678). English composer
1802 - Letitia Landon was born (d. 15 Oct 1838). English poet and novelist
1840 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing was born (d. 1902). German psychologist
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 struck earth near the town of Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.
1848 - Oregon Territory organized by Act of U.S. Congress .
1850 - Morte de José Rafael de Gallegos y Alvarado. Presidente da Costa Rica (1833-1835 e 1845-1846)
1851 - Doc Holliday was born (d. 1887). American gambler and gunfighter.
1854 - Morte do toureiro espanhol Manuel Trigo
1860 - Ernest Thompson Seton was born (d. 23 Oct 1946). British/Canadian naturalist and writer; helped found the Boy Scouts of America
1861 - Herbert Putnam was born (d. 1955). Librarian of Congress
1863 - Ernest Thayer was born (d. 21 Aug 1940). American poet. "Casey at the Bat"
1867 - John Galsworthy was born (b. 31 Jan 1933). English author. Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. The Forsyte Saga;
1870 - Admiral David G. Farragut dies (b. 1801). American Navy's first four-star admiral.
1880 - Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, completed
1881 - O investigador cubano Carlos Finlay descobre o mosquito propagador do paludismo
1882 - Gisela Richter was born (d. 1972). Art historian.
1885 - Japan's first patent is issued to a man who invented rust-proof paint.
1886 - Arthur J. Dempster was born (d. 11 Mar 1950). American physicist who built the first device for measuring charged particles.
1886 - Morte do matemático francês Edmond Nicolas Laguerre
1890 - É inaugurado o Coliseu dos Recreios de Lisboa.
1893 - France introduces motor vehicle registration
1900 - Beijing occupied by joint European-Japanese-United States force in campaign to end Boxer Rebellion in China.
1901 - First powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
1903 - Eduardo Mallea was born (d. 12 Nov 1982). Argentine novelist, essayist and short-story writer
1908 - First beauty contest held in Folkestone, England
1910 - Pierre Schaeffer was born (d. 19 Aug 1955). French composer, acoustician and electronics engineer
1911 - Shri Vethathiri Maharishi, founder of World Community Service Center
1912 - United States Marines invade Nicaragua to support the US-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya resigned three years earlier.

1913 - (Franck) Frank Pourcel was born (d. 12 Nov 2000). Composer, violinist: group: The French Fiddles: Only You.

1914 - Fundação do Portimonense Sporting Clube
1915 - Max Klein was born (d. 20 May 1993). American painter; invented "paint by numbers"
1917 - China declared war on Germany and Austria during World War I
1920 - Nehemiah Persoff was born. Actor.

1920 - Começam os VII Jogos Olímpicos, em Antuérpia (Bélgica). Participaram 29 países, totalizando 2.543 homens e 64 mulheres.
1925 - Russell Baker was born. US columnist and journalist.
1926 - René Goscinny was born (d. 1977). French comic-strip author.
1926 - Lina Wertmüller was born. Director.
1926 - Alice Ghostley was born. Actress
1926 - Buddy Greco was born. Singer: Mr. Lonely, The Lady is a Tramp, I Ran All the Way Home; musician: piano
1930 - Earl Weaver was born. Baseball Hall of Fame manager
1931 - Frederic Raphael was born.
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 passed, creating a government pension system for the retired
1935 - John Brodie was born. Football player
1936 - Tropas rebeldes vindas do Norte de África, dirigidas superiormente pelo general Francisco Franco, e comandadas localmente pelo coronel Juan Yague, tomam Badajoz, unindo as duas áreas que se revoltaram contra o governo republicano espanhol, e que deram origem à Guerra Civil espanhola
1940 - Dash Crofts was born. Musician
1941 - David Crosby was born. Guitarist, songwriter: Immigration Man; groups: The Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Teach Your Children, Woodstock; Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
1941 - Connie Smith was born. Country singer.
1941 - World War II - Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims
1941 - Paul Sabatier dies (b. 1854). French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1912
1943 - Joe Kelley dies (b. 1871). Baseball Hall of Famer
1943 - Jimmy Johnson was born. American football player and broadcaster
1945 - Steve Martin was born. Emmy Award-winning comedy writer: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour [1968-69]; Comedian and actor All of Me, Roxanne, L.A. Story, Parenthood, Father of the Bride, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, The Jerk, The Man with Two Brains, Three Amigos, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Saturday Night Live
1945 - Wim Wenders was born. German film director
1945 - Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender.
1945 - Marechal Pétain é condenado à morte por um tribunal francês.
1946 - Antonio Fargas was born. Actor
1946 - Susan Saint James was born. 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 - Danielle Steel was born. Novelist
1947 - Larry Graham was born. Singer, musician.
1947 - Pakistan gain independence from the United Kingdom
1950 - Terry Adams was born. Rock singer-musician (NRBQ)
1950 - Gary Larson was born. Cartoonist (''Far Side'')
1950 - Bob Backlund was born. Professional wrestler.
1951 - William Randolph Hearst dies. Newspaper magnate
1952 - Carl Lumbly was born. Actor
1952 - Debbie Meyer was born. Swimmer
1953 - James Horner was born. Academy Award-winning composer
1953 - Zaira Zambelli was born. Brazilian actress.
1954 - Mark Fidrych was born. Baseball player.
1955 - Herbert Putnam dies. Librarian of Congress
1956 - Bertolt Brecht dies (b. 1898). German poet and playwright.
1956 - Rusty Wallace was born. American race car driver
1956 - Jackee Harry was born. Actress
1958 - Frédéric Joliot dies (b. 1900). French physicist, recipient in 1935 of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1958 - Mary Ritter Beard dies.
1959 - Marcia Gay Harden was born. Academy Award-winning actress
1959 - Earvin "Magic" Johnson was born. Basketball player
1960 - Sarah Brightman was born. British singer.
1960 - Jack Brabham (Equipe Cooper) vence o Grande Prémio do Porto em Formula 1
1961 - Susan Olsen was born. Actress (''The Brady Bunch'')
1964 - Brannon Braga was born. Writer, director
1965 - Emmanuelle Béart was born in Saint Tropez. French actress
1966 - Halle Berry was born in Cleveland, Ohio. American Academy Award-winning actress. Monster’s Ball [2001]; Living Dolls, Knots Landing, Boomerang, Jungle Fever, Losing Isaiah, Executive Decision, Bulworth, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, X-Men; first runner-up: Miss USA [1986]
1968 - Catherine Bell was born. British actress and model. JAG, Mother of the Bride, Crash Dive, Black Thunder, The Time Shifters
1970 - Kevin Cadogan was born. Rock musician
1971 - Scott Michael Campbell was born. Actor
1971 - Bahrain declares its independence from United Kingdom
1972 - An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashed during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156
1972 - Lalanya Masters was born. Actress
1973 - Rana Faheem Aslam was born. Pakistani journalist
1973 - The U.S. bombing of Cambodia came to a halt.
1973 - Nascimento de Augustine Okocha. Jogador nigeriano de futebol
1976 - Alex Albrecht was born. Co-host of The Screen Savers.
1976 - Women for peace. In the Northern Irish city of Belfast 10000 Catholic and Protestant women held a demonstration calling for an end to the Northern Irish civil war. The march was initiated by the multi religious organisation, "Mothers for Peace". The co-founders, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for their commitment.
1977 - Juan Pierre was born. Baseball player
1977 - Philip Stamper was born. Pro wrestler, actor
1980 - Lech Walesa leads strikes at Gdansk, Poland shipyards.
1980 - President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale were nominated for a second term at the Democratic National Convention in New York.

1983 - Morte de Alceu Amoroso Lima (Tristão de Ataíde). Educador, crítico literário, professor, pensador, escritor e membro da Academia Brasileira de Letras.
1983 - Mila Kunis was born. Television actress.
1983 - Elena Baltacha was born. Ukrainian-born, British tennis player
1986 - Terin Humphrey was born. United States Olympic gymnast in 2004.

1988 - Morre Enzo Ferrari, construtor italiano de carros desportivos.
1994 - Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
1994 - Morte do escritor búlgaro naturalizado inglês Elias Canetti. Prémio Nobel em 1981.

1994 - Nick Price won the PGA Championship at Southern Hills Tulsa, Oklahoma in record fashion. He finished at 11-under-par 269 for 72 holes, six strokes ahead of Corey Pavin
1996 - The Republican National Convention in San Diego nominated Bob Dole for president and Jack Kemp for vice president.
2002 - Dave Williams dies. Singer (Drowning Pool)
2003 - Helmut Rahn dies (b. 1929). German footballer
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 $2500.00 or less.
2004 - Czeslaw Milosz dies (b. 1911). Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
Pakistan - Pakistan Independence Day
United States of America - National Code Talkers Day