Wednesday August 14, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

August 14: Day of the Week

August 14, 2024 is the 227th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 139 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is miércoles.

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Here’s the August calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

August 14 Historical Event(s)

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.
1842
Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
1848
Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
1900
The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
1921
Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian 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 on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acre.
1941
World War II – Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
1980
Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
1994
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as “Carlos the Jackal,” is captured.
2006
Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing.

Who were born on August 14?

1840
Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist (d. 1902)
1876
Aleksandar Obrenović, King of Serbia (d. 1903)
1924
Holger Juul Hansen, Danish actor
1924
Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa Lama, Tibetan religious figure (d. 1981)
1929
Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (d. 1971)
1956
Rusty Wallace, American race car driver
1968
Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer
1983
Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian/British tennis player
1987
Chrystina Sayers, American singer and dancer (Girlicious)
1987
Tim Tebow, American football player and winner of 2007 Heisman trophy

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