What happend on 14th August

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1947

Pakistan gain independence from the United Kingdom

1945

Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan standard time).

1941

World War II

1936

Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States

1935

United States Social Security Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired

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 (970 km²).

1912

United States Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya resigned three years earlier

1908

First beauty contest held in Folkestone, England

1901

The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.

1900

A joint European-Japanese-United States force occupies Beijing, in campaign to end the Boxer Rebellion in China.