14th August anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1867
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of John Galsworthy, writer and Nobel Laureate"
  • 1907
  • Great Britain
  • Feliks Topolski born 1907 (died 1989) Artist. After a quarter of a century's work in Britain he became widely known in the early 1960s for his portraits accompanying John Freeman's Face to Face television interviews.
• event
  • 1947
  • India
  • "sub-continent partitioned to form India (Secular, Hindu majority) and Pakistan (Islamic)"
  • 1969
  • Ireland
  • British Troops sent to Northern Ireland
  • 1979
  • Great Britain
  • The Fastnet yacht race was hit by a freak storm in the Irish Sea. 15 people were killed and 23 yachts were sunk or abandoned
  • 1908
  • Great Britain
  • "The first beauty contest was held, in Folkestone, England ."
• Death
  • 1936
  • United States
  • "Death in Owensboro, Kentucky of Rainey Bethea, the last person to be executed in public in the United States." more
  • 1951
  • United States
  • "Death of William Randolph Hearst, newspaper proprietor"
  • 1956
  • Germany
  • "Death of Bertolt Brecht, dramatist"
  • 1958
  • France
  • "Death of Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, Nobel Prize winner ."
  • 1984
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of J. B. Priestley, British novelist and playwright"
  • 1988
  • Italy
  • "Death of Enzo Ferrari, Italian car manufacturer ."
  • 1922
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, newspaper proprietor"