August 14 is the 226th day of the year, there are 139 days remaining until the end of the year.
Victory Day
Senior Citizens Day
Color Book Day (1457)
Felix the Cat’s Birthday
Alfred Hitchcock’s Birthday
Wiffle Ball Day (Debuted in 1953)
National Financial Awareness Day
Driving License Test Began (1893)
Food Holidays
National Creamsicle Day
Orange Creamsicle Cupcakes
http://www.cookingclassy.com/2012/12/orange-creamsicle-cupcakes/
Today in History – Interesting Highlights
In the News
1900 – The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
1901 – The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
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 – U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
1914 – World War I: start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
1916 – Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the Entente in World War I
1921 – Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People’s Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
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 onSeptember 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2).
1935 – Social Security Act, 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.
1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.
1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 inJapan Standard Time).
1945 – The Viet Minh launches August Revolution amid the political confusion and power vacuum engulfing Vietnam.
1947 – Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1959 – Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
1967 – UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
1969 – Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.
1971 – Bahrain declares independence as the State of Bahrain.
1972 – An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
1973 – The Pakistani Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.
1974 – The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins; 140,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriots become refugees. 6,000 massacred, 1,619 missing.
1975 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens at the USA Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.
1980 – Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
1987 – All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.
1994 – Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as “Carlos the Jackal,” is captured.
1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
2003 – A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
2006 – Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing.
2007 – The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 796 people.
2010 – The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.
2013 – Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
Holidays and Observances
Christian Feast Day:
Maximilian Kolbe
Kaj Munk (with Kolbe, Lutheran Church)
Jonathan Myrick Daniels (Episcopal Church (USA))
August 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Independence Day, celebrates the day on which Pakistan was made an independent country based on border lines created by the British during the end of their rule of India in 1947. (Pakistan)
Pramuka Day (Indonesia)
Music
1956 – A Washington, DC, DJ, Bob Rickman, created the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Elvis Presley.
1965 – The McCoys’ “Hang On Sloopy” was released.
1970 – Stephen Stills was arrested on cocaine possession charges at a motel in La Jolla, CA. He was released on $2,500 bail.
1971 – Rod Stewart released “Maggie May.”
1976 – The Steve Miller Band’s “Rock ‘N Me” was released.
1976 – Nick Lowe’s debut solo single, “So It Goes,” was released.
1985 - Michael Jackson outbid Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono for the ATV music-publishing catalog. Jackson paid $47.5 million for the rights to more than 250 songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
1988 – Roy Buchanan died after hanging himself in a jail in Fairfax, VA.
1989 – Bon Jovi’s “New Jersey” album became the first U.S. album to be released legally in the Soviet Union. The Russian label Melodiya paid the group with a truckload of firewood since rubles can’t leave Russia.
1992 – Wayne Newton filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
1992 – Tony Williams (The Platters) died from diabetes and emphysema at the age of 64.
1995 – The Grateful Dead met and decided to cancel their fall tour in the wake of Jerry Garcia’s death.
1998 – Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev was a visitor at the 10th Popkomm music fair.
1998 – PBS premiered a documentary on Robbie Robertson’s Indian heritage. “Robbie Robertson: Making A Noise _ A Native American Musical Journey.”
1999 – In Los Angeles, CA, Leif Garrett pled guilty to drug possession to get into a rehabilitation program. He had been arrested on June 29, 1999.
1999 – 765,000 tickets to a Backstreet Boys North American tour were sold in one day.
2000 – Police in Los Angeles, CA, fired pepper spray and rubber bullets to clear a crowd of 9,000 people when a free concert by Rage Against the Machine turned violent.
2001 – The Red Hot Chili Peppers canceled a concert planned in Israel. The concert had been planned for August 28th, but was canceled due to security concerns. The U.S. State Department had issued an advisory the recommended that U.S. citizens not travel to Israel.
Movies
1975 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show released theatrically
Famous Births
1901 – Alice Rivaz, Swiss author (d. 1998)
1908 – Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (d. 1984)
1909 – Stuff Smith, American violinist (d. 1967)
1910 – Willy Ronis, French photographer (d. 2009)
1910 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and producer (d. 1995)
1911 – Jan Koetsier, Dutch composer and conductor (d.2006)
1911 – Vethathiri Maharishi, Indian spiritual leader (d. 2006)
1912 – Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (d. 1985)
1913 – Paul Dean, American baseball player (d. 1981)
1915 – B. A. Santamaria, Australian journalist and activist (d. 1998)
1916 – Fumio Fujimura, Japanese baseball player and manager (d. 1992)
1916 – Wellington Mara, American businessman (d. 2005)
1922 – Leslie Marr, English racing driver
1923 – Patriarch Diodoros of Jerusalem (d. 2000)
1924 – Sverre Fehn, Norwegian architect, designed the Hedmark Museum (d. 2009)
1924 – Holger Juul Hansen, Danish actor (d. 2013)
1924 – Georges Prêtre, French conductor
1924 – Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual leader (d. 1981)
1925 – Russell Baker, American author
1926 – Alice Ghostley, American actress and singer (d. 2007)
1926 – René Goscinny, French author and illustrator (d. 1977)
1926 – Buddy Greco, American singer and pianist
1926 – Lina Wertmüller, Italian director and screenwriter
1929 – Kinnaird R. McKee, American admiral (d. 2013)
1929 – Gene Scott, American pastor and broadcaster (d. 2005)
1929 – Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (d. 1971)
1930 – Earl Weaver, American baseball player and manager (d. 2013)
1932 – Lee Hoffman, American author (d. 2007)
1933 – Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1935 – John Brodie, American football player and golfer
1936 – Trevor Bannister, English actor (d. 2011)
1940 – Galen Hall, American football player and coach
1940 – Alexei Panshin, American author
1941 – Lynne Cheney, American wife of Dick Cheney, 32nd Second Lady of the United States
1941 – David Crosby, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and CPR)
1941 – Connie Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942 – Willie Dunn, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2013)
1942 – Lionel Morton, English singer, guitarist, and television host (The Four Pennies)
1942 – Jackie Oliver, English race car driver
1945 – Heidi Hartmann, American feminist economist
1945 – Steve Martin, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
1945 – Wim Wenders, German director, producer, and screenwriter
1946 – Antonio Fargas, American actor
1946 – Larry Graham, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Sly and the Family Stone and Graham Central Station)
1946 – Susan Saint James, American actress
1946 – Tom Walkinshaw, Scottish race car driver (d. 2010)
1947 – Peter Christian, English actor
1947 – Bruce Nash, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1947 – Maddy Prior, English singer (Steeleye Span, Silly Sisters, and The Carnival Band)
1947 – Danielle Steel, American author
1947 – Jiro Taniguchi, Japanese illustrator
1947 – Joop van Daele, Dutch footballer
1948 – Terry Adams, American pianist and composer (NRBQ)
1949 – Bob Backlund, American wrestler
1949 – Morten Olsen, Danish footballer and manager
1950 – Gary Larson, American cartoonist
1951 – Peter Blegvad, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and illustrator (Slapp Happy and The Lodge)
1951 – Slim Dunlap, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Replacements)
1951 – Norbert Hofmann, German footballer and manager
1951 – Carl Lumbly, American actor
1952 – Debbie Meyer, American swimmer
1952 – Alex van Warmerdam, Dutch actor, director, and screenwriter
1953 – James Horner, American composer and conductor
1953 – Cliff Johnson, American game designer
1954 – Mark Fidrych, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2009)
1954 – Stanley A. McChrystal, American general
1954 – Christian Gross, Swiss footballer and coach
1956 – Jackée Harry, American actress and director
1956 – Andy King, English footballer
1956 – Rusty Wallace, American race car driver
1957 – Peter Costello, Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Treasurer of Australia
1957 – Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (d. 1986)
1957 – Alim Qasimov, Azerbaijani singer
1958 – Bobby Eaton, American wrestler
1959 – Frank Brickowski, American basketball player
1959 – Marcia Gay Harden, American actress
1959 – Magic Johnson, American basketball player and coach
1960 – Sarah Brightman, English singer-songwriter and actress
1960 – Sharon Bryant, American singer (Atlantic Starr)
1960 – Cecilia Gasdia, Italian soprano
1960 – Stet Howland, American drummer and songwriter (Killing Machine, W.A.S.P., Blackfoot, and Impellitteri)
1960 – Fred Roberts, American basketball player
1961 – Eddie Gilbert, American wrestler (d. 1995)
1961 – Susan Olsen, American actress and singer
1962 – Lady Bunny, American drag queen performer
1962 – Mark Gubicza, American baseball player and sportscaster
1962 – Andres Herkel, Estonian politician
1962 – Rameez Raja, Pakistani cricketer and sportscaster
1963 – David Aaron Baker, American actor
1964 – Neal Anderson, American football player and coach
1965 – Emmanuelle Béart, French actress
1965 – Brannon Braga, American screenwriter and producer
1965 – Mark Collins, English guitarist and songwriter (The Charlatans and The Waltones)
1965 – Terry Richardson, American fashion photographer
1966 – Halle Berry, American model, actress, and producer, Miss World United States 1986
1966 – Karl Petter Løken, Swedish-Norwegian footballer
1967 – Erik Gandini, Italian-Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter
1967 – Dirk Rehbein, German footballer
1968 – Pravin Amre, Indian cricketer and coach
1968 – Catherine Bell, American actress
1968 – Darren Clarke, Irish golfer
1968 – Adrian Lester, English actor, director, and screenwriter
1968 – Billy Mavreas, Greek-Canadian cartoonist
1968 – Medy van der Laan, Dutch politician
1969 – Tracy Caldwell Dyson, American chemist and astronaut
1969 – DJ Uncle Al, American rapper and DJ (d. 2001)
1969 – Stig Tøfting, Danish footballer and manager
1970 – Kevin Cadogan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Third Eye Blind)
1971 – Raoul Bova, Italian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1971 – Mark Loretta, American baseball player
1971 – Pramodya Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan cricketer
1972 – Tamer El Said, Egyptian director, producer, and screenwriter
1972 – Yoo Jae-suk, South Korean comedian and actor
1972 – Laurent Lamothe, Haitian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Haiti
1972 – Jay Manuel, American make-up artist
1973 – Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer
1973 – Daisuke Ishiwatari, Japanese game developer, voice actor, and composer, created Guilty Gear
1973 – Jay-Jay Okocha, Nigerian footballer
1973 – Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer
1974 – Chucky Atkins, American basketball player
1974 – Martin Bulloch, Scottish drummer (Mogwai)
1974 – Christopher Gorham, American actor
1974 – Ana Matronic, American singer-songwriter (Scissor Sisters)
1975 – Mike Vrabel, American football player and coach
1976 – Alex Albrecht, American television host, actor, and producer
1976 – Steve Braun, Canadian actor
1976 – Fabrizio Donato, Italian triple jumper
1977 – Ed Harcourt, English singer-songwriter and producer
1977 – Elisavet Mystakidou, Greek martial artist
1977 – Juan Pierre, American baseball player
1978 – Anastasios Kyriakos, Greek footballer
1978 – Greg Rawlinson, South African-New Zealand rugby player
1978 – Kate Ritchie, Australian actress
1979 – Jérémie Bréchet, French footballer
1979 – Paul Burgess, Australian pole vaulter
1979 – Yōichirō Morikawa, Japanese actor, director, and screenwriter
1980 – Estrella Morente, Spanish singer
1980 – Roy Williams, American football player
1981 – Earl Barron, American basketball player
1981 – Matthew Etherington, English footballer
1981 – Ray William Johnson, American video blogger
1981 – Julius Jones, American football player
1981 – Kofi Kingston, Ghanaian-American wrestler
1983 – Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player (d. 2014)
1983 – Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-American actress
1983 – Black Milk, American rapper and producer
1983 – Lamorne Morris, American actor and comedian
1983 – Juan Oviedo, Dominican baseball player
1983 – Spencer Pratt, American television personality
1984 – Simon Andrews, English motorcycle racer (d. 2014)
1984 – Eva Birnerová, Czech tennis player
1984 – Clay Buchholz, American baseball player
1984 – Giorgio Chiellini, Italian footballer
1984 – Kunzang Choden, Bhutanese target shooter
1984 – Josh Gorges, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Nick Grimshaw, English radio and television host
1984 – Nicola Slater, Scottish tennis player
1984 – Robin Söderling, Swedish tennis player
1984 – Nicolette van Dam, Dutch actress
1985 – Ashlynn Brooke, American porn actress, dancer, and model
1985 – Christian Gentner, German footballer
1985 – Shea Weber, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 – Terin Humphrey, American gymnast
1986 – Cameron Jerome, English footballer
1986 – Mihkel Poll, Estonian pianist
1986 – Braian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer
1987 – James Buckley, English actor
1987 – Cate Harrington, English porn actress
1987 – Sinem Kobal, Turkish actress
1987 – Tim Tebow, American football player
1988 – Shahd Barmada, Syrian singer
1989 – Florian Abel, German footballer
1989 – Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player
1990 – Jaydee Bixby, Canadian singer-songwriter
1993 – Gongchan, South Korean singer and actor (B1A4)
1993 – Cassi Thomson, Australian-American actress and singer
1994 – Kim Rodriguez, Filipino actress
1999 – Garrett Ryan, American actor
Deaths
1905 – Simeon Solomon, English painter (b. 1840)
1909 – William Stanley, American engineer (b. 1829)
1926 – John H. Moffitt, American sergeant and politician, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1843)
1928 – Klabund, German author and poet (b. 1890)
1938 – Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer (b. 1876)
1941 – Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr and saint (b. 1894)
1941 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
1943 – Lore Berger, Swiss author (b. 1921)
1943 – Joe Kelley, American baseball player and manager (b. 1871)
1951 – William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (b. 1863)
1954 – Hugo Eckener, German pilot and designer (b. 1868)
1954 – Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek activist (b. 1901)
1955 – Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
1956 – Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)
1958 – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
1958 – Konstantin von Neurath, German politician, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1873)
1963 – Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
1964 – Johnny Burnette, American singer-songwriter (The Rock and Roll Trio) (b. 1934)
1965 – Vello Kaaristo, Estonian skier (b. 1911)
1966 – Tip Snooke, South African cricketer (b. 1881)
1967 – Bob Anderson, English motorcycle racer and race car driver (b. 1931)
1972 – Oscar Levant, American actor, pianist, and composer (b. 1906)
1972 – Jules Romains, French author and poet (b. 1885)
1973 – Fred Gipson, American author (b. 1908)
1978 – Nicolas Bentley, English author and illustrator (b. 1907)
1980 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian-American model and actress (b. 1960)
1981 – Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894)
1981 – Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (b. 1910)
1982 – Patrick Magee, Irish-English actor (b. 1922)
1982 – Mahasi Sayadaw, Burmese monk (b. 1904)
1984 – Spud Davis, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1904)
1984 – J. B. Priestley, English author and playwright (b. 1894)
1985 – Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)
1988 – Roy Buchanan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Snakestretchers) (b. 1939)
1988 – Robert Calvert, South African singer-songwriter (Hawkwind) (b. 1945)
1988 – Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and businessman, founded Ferrari (b. 1898)
1989 – Ricky Berry, American basketball player (b. 1964)
1991 – Alberto Crespo, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1920)
1992 – John Sirica, American judge (b. 1904)
1992 – Tony Williams, American singer (The Platters) (b. 1928)
1994 – Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss author (b. 1905)
1994 – Alice Childress, American actress, playwright, and author (b. 1912)
1996 – Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
1996 – Tom Mees, American sportscaster (b. 1949)
1996 – Solomos Solomou, Cypriot refugee (b. 1970)
1999 – Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1918)
2000 – Alain Fournier, French-Canadian computer scientist (b. 1943)
2000 – Cuan McCarthy, South African cricketer (b. 1929)
2001 – Earl Anthony, American bowler (b. 1938)
2002 – Dave Williams, American singer-songwriter (Drowning Pool) (b. 1972)
2003 – Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
2004 – Czesław Miłosz, Polish-American author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2004 – Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
2005 – Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (b. 1932)
2006 – Adriaan de Groot, Dutch psychologist and chess player (b. 1914)
2006 – Bruno Kirby, American actor and singer (b. 1949)
2007 – Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli politician (b. 1939)
2007 – Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1913)
2007 – Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 53rd Yokozuna (b. 1940)
2008 – Percy Irausquin, Aruban-Dutch fashion designer (b. 1969)
2010 – Rallis Kopsidis, Greek painter (b. 1929)
2010 – Herman Leonard, American photographer (b. 1923)
2010 – Tahar Ouettar, Algerian author (b. 1936)
2011 – Shammi Kapoor, Indian actor and director (b. 1931)
2011 – Fritz Korbach, German footballer and manager (b. 1945)
2012 – Maja Bošković-Stulli, Croatian historian and academic (b. 1922)
2012 – Remy Charlip, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1929)
2012 – Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian politician, 14th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1945)
2012 – Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian chess player (b. 1923)
2012 – Sergey Kapitsa, English-Russian physicist and demographer (b. 1928)
2012 – Zhou Kehua, Chinese murderer (b. 1970)
2012 – Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum, American designer (b. 1946)
2012 – Anna Orso, Italian actress (b. 1938)
2012 – Ron Palillo, American actor (b. 1949)
2012 – Rosemary Rice, American actress and singer (b. 1925)
2012 – Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (b. 1919)
2013 – Gia Allemand, American model (b. 1983)
2013 – Stephen Easley, American politician (b. 1952)
2013 – René Fernández Apaza, Bolivian archbishop (b. 1924)
2013 – Jack Garfinkel, American basketball player and coach (b. 1918)
2013 – Jack Germond, American journalist and author (b. 1928)
2013 – Dilip Singh Judeo, Indian politician (b. 1949)
2013 – Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress (b. 1970)
2013 – Allen Lanier, American guitarist and songwriter (Blue Öyster Cult) (b. 1946)
2013 – Luciano Martino, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
2013 – Paddy Power, Irish politician, 22nd Minister for Defence for Ireland (b. 1928)
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