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	'''August 14''' is the 226th day of the year in the ] (227th in ]s), with 139 days remaining.		'''August 14''' is the 226th day of the year in the ] (227th in ]s), with 139 days remaining.

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August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining.

410 - Alaric sacks Rome
1385 - Castilians are defeated by Portuguese at Aljubarrota
1598 - Irish under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, destroy English force at the Battle of Yellow Ford
1842 - Seminole War ends, Seminole Indians forced from Florida to Oklahoma
1880 - Cologne Cathedral completed
1896 - Gold discovered in the Yukon
1900 - Peking relieved by international forces to end Boxer Rebellion
1912 - United States Marines invade Nicaragua
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 acres.
1935 - Social Security Act passed
1945 - Japan surrenders after two cities have been devastated by atomic bombs, ending World War II
1947 - Pakistan gains independence from Great Britain
1947 - India gains independence from Great Britain
1969 - British troops deployed in Northern Ireland
1971 - Bahrain declares its independence from Great Britain
1980 - Lech Walesa leads strikes at Gdansk, Poland shipyards