Public Holidays on August 14

• 🌍 Independence Day (Pakistan)

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Religious Observances on August 14

• Jewish: Rosh Hashana LaBehemot ראש השנה למעשר בהמה
• Jewish: Rosh Chodesh Elul ראש חודש אלול

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On This Day in History — August 14

• 2015 — The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba-United States relations were broken off.
• 2013 — Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
• 2007 — The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 334 people.
• 2006 — Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike.
• 2005 — Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
• 2003 — A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.

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Notable Births on August 14

• 1989 — Florian Abel, German footballer
• 1989 — Ander Herrera, Spanish footballer
• 1989 — Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 — Tim Tebow, American football and baseball player, television personality and sportscaster
• 1986 — Cameron Jerome, English footballer
• 1986 — Sam Moa, Tongan-New Zealand rugby league player

Notable Deaths on August 14

• 2016 — Philip "Fyuvsh" Finkel, American actor (b. 1922)
• 2015 — Agustín Cejas, Argentinian footballer (b. 1945)
• 2015 — Bob Farrell, American businessman, founded Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour (b. 1927)
• 2015 — Bob Johnston, American songwriter and producer (b. 1932)
• 2014 — Leonard Fein, American journalist and academic, co-founded Moment Magazine (b. 1934)
• 2014 — George V. Hansen, American soldier and politician (b. 1930)

Public Holidays on August 15

• 🌍 Assumption Day (Austria, Belgium, Germany, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal)
• 🌍 Asunción de la Virgen (Chile, Spain)
• 🌍 Assomption (France)
• 🌍 Assumption (Spain)
• 🌍 Assumption of Mary (Chile)
• 🌍 Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Switzerland)
• 🌍 Assunção de Nossa Senhora (Portugal)
• 🌍 Assunzione della Beata Vergine Maria (Italy)
• 🌍 Independence Day (India)
• 🌍 Liberation Day (South Korea)
• 🌍 Mariä Himmelfahrt (Austria)
• 🌍 O. L. V. Hemelvaart (Belgium)
• 🌍 Wniebowzięcie Najświętszej Marii Panny (Poland)
• 🌍 Κοίμηση της Θεοτόκου (Greece)
• 🌍 জাতীয় শোক দিবস (Bangladesh)
• 🌍 광복절 (South Korea)

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Religious Observances on August 15

• Christian: Assumption of Mary

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On This Day in History — August 15

• 2015 — North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time, 8½ hours ahead of UTC.
• 2013 — At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in...
• 2013 — The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivorous species found in the Americas in 35 years.
• 2007 — An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
• 2005 — Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
• 2005 — The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia was signed, ending almost three decades of fighting.

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Notable Births on August 15

• 1994 — Lasse Vigen Christensen, Danish footballer
• 1994 — Kosuke Hagino, Japanese swimmer
• 1993 — Clinton N'Jie, Cameroonian footballer
• 1993 — Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, English footballer
• 1992 — Baskaran Adhiban, Indian chess player
• 1991 — Petja Piiroinen, Finnish snowboarder

Notable Deaths on August 15

• 2017 — Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian-American architect (b. 1925)
• 2015 — Julian Bond, American academic and politician (b. 1940)
• 2015 — Hamid Gul, Pakistani general (b. 1936)
• 2014 — Licia Albanese, Italian-American soprano and actress (b. 1909)
• 2013 — Rosalía Mera, Spanish businesswoman, co-founded Inditex and Zara (b. 1944)
• 2013 — Sławomir Mrożek, Polish-French author and playwright (b. 1930)