Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 14
August 14: Independence Day for Pakistan (1947).
- 1385 – Forces under João I defeated the Castilians in the Battle of Aljubarrota, ending the 1383–1385 Crisis in Portugal.
- 1842 – Seminole Indians were forced from Florida to Oklahoma, ending the Second Seminole War.
- 1941 – After a secret meeting aboard warships in a secure anchorage near Argentia, Newfoundland, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (pictured) issued the Atlantic Charter, establishing a vision for a post-World War II world despite the fact that the United States had yet to enter the war.
- 1994 – Leftist revolutionary and mercenary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as Carlos the Jackal, was handed over to French agents by his own bodyguards.
- 2005 – Helios Airways Flight 522 crashed into a mountain north of Marathon and Varnava, Greece, killing all 121 on board.
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