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Events on August 14

• 1288 Count Adolf V of Berg grants Düsseldorf city rights and thereby curtails the power of Siegfried von Westerburg, the Archbishop of Cologne, who has been held captive since the Battle of Worringen.
• 1457 The Mainz Psalter (Psalterium Moguntinum), the first dated incunable in the history of printing, is completed by Peter Schöffer. It is used for liturgical purposes.
• 1919 The Weimar Constitution is proclaimed.
• 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill sign the Atlantic Charter aboard the Prince of Wales, articulating their vision of a new world order after the Second World War. After the war, the Charter becomes the central foundation for the United Nations.
• 1945 Japan accepts the Allied surrender terms.
• 1969 The Sergio Leone Western Once Upon a Time in the West opens in West German cinemas. The music is by Ennio Morricone.
• 1974 At Manching, the first prototype of the Tornado multirole combat aircraft completes its maiden flight.
• 1980 After the dismissal of crane operator Anna Walentynowicz, the entire workforce of the Lenin Shipyard in Danzig, Poland, goes on strike. Lech Wałęsa becomes the strike leader. The independent trade union Solidarność later emerges from the August strikes.
• 1984 IBM introduces the IBM Personal Computer/AT. Its technology has been the standard in this market segment as the AT format for more than a decade.
• 2003 A power outage cripples the northeastern United States and parts of Canada. Approximately 50 million people have no electricity.
• 2018 In the Italian port city of Genoa, the Polcevera Viaduct, an urban motorway bridge on the Autostrada A10, partially collapses; 43 people are killed.
• 2020 In the Champions League quarterfinal between FC Barcelona and FC Bayern Munich, the highest-scoring knockout match in Champions League history so far takes place; Munich wins 8:2.

Born on August 14

• 1851 Doc Holliday, American Wild West gunslinger
• 1901 Franz Konwitschny, German conductor and choirmaster
• 1912 Erwin Strittmatter, German Sorbian writer
• 1940 Max Schautzer, Austrian television presenter
• 1941 David Crosby, American musician, singer and songwriter
• 1950 Gary Larson, American comic strip artist and cartoonist
• 1960 Sarah Brightman, British opera singer and actress
• 1983 Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-American actress
• 1991 Richard Freitag, German ski jumper
• 1992 Rezo, German web video producer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „14. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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