óæå ïðîøëî 14 August

1900 : The foreign legations in Beijing are released by an international force


On August 14, 1900, the foreign legations in Peking under siege by the Boxers since June 20, 1900, were released by an international expeditionary force.
The Boxers were part of a secret society seeking to end the Chinese imperial system and the control of foreigners on the Chinese economy which had ruined entire regions. The Chinese Empress Tz'u Hsi had yet used the revolt to besiege the foreign legations.
This incident, called 55 Days at Peking, ended with a bloody repression of the Chinese population by the troops and settlers from certain countries and eventually ended by the trusteeship of China. The Boxer Rebellion was ended by a peace treaty in September 1901.

1941 : Signature of the Atlantic Charter


On August 14, 1941, the Atlantic Charter was approved by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
The charter stated the principles on which both countries had decided to base their foreign policies : no territorial conquest, right of peoples to self-determination, low trade barriers, economic progress, social security, peace between nations, disarmament of aggressive nations.
These principles were included in the UN Declaration of 1942 and the United Nations Charter of 1945.
The Atlantic Charter written by the United States and Britain, and approved by telegraph by both parties, did not have in fact any signed version : the only statement with the two signatures was found in the Roosevelt's papers and the two signatures were in his own handwriting.

1974 : Beginning of the second Turkish invasion in Cyprus


On August 14, 1974, Turkey launched its second invasion on the island of Cyprus. It took over 40% of the country and 200,000 Greek Cypriots were evicted from their homes and became refugees in the Greek part of the island.

2007 : Qahtaniya Attacks


On August 14, 2007, four simultaneous bombings occurred in the towns of Jazeera and Qahtaniya near Mosul in Iraq. 796 people were killed and 1562 others were injured. The bombings targeted the Yazidi Kurdish minority. No claim had been made of the attacks, but Iraqi authorities believed they were perpetrated by Sunni extremists.

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National Day in Pakistan
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Hanazono, Emperor of Japan (1297)
Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (1851)
Ernest Thayer, American poet (1863)
John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (1867)
Guangxu, Emperor of China (1871)
Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (1910)
Georges Prêtre, French conductor (1924)
René Goscinny, French cartoonist (Asterix, Lucky Luke) (1926)
Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (1933)
David Crosby, American musician (1941)
Steve Martin, American actor (1945)
Wim Wenders, German director (1945)
Antonio Fargas, American actor (1946)
Danielle Steel, American novelist (1947)
Carl Lumbly, American actor (1951)
James Horner, American composer (1953)
Magic Johnson, American basketball player (1959)
Emmanuelle Béart, French actress (1963)
Halle Berry, American actress (1966)
Catherine Bell, American actress (1968)
Tracy Caldwell Dyson, American astronaut (1969)
Jay-Jay Okocha, Nigerian footballer (1973)
Romane Bohringer, French actress (1973)
Giorgio Chiellini, Italian footballer (1984)

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Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize (1941)
William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper magnate (1951)
Bertolt Brecht, German writer (1956)
Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel Laureate (1958)
Oscar Levant, American actor (1972)
Jules Romains, French writer (1972)
Patrick Magee, Irish actor (1982)
Enzo Ferrari, Founder of Scuderia Ferrari (1988)
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