August 14 Holidays

✡️ Religious Observances

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

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 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,... ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 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