On August 14, 1945, US President Harry Truman announced the unconditional surrender of Japan in World War II.
OTHER EVENTS:
1502.- On his fourth and last voyage, Columbus landed in Honduras and it is believed that he was the first to give the country its name due to the depth of the sea that he found near the coast.
1556.- Definitive establishment of the Portuguese in China, near Canton, where they founded Macao.
1598.- The Casa de la Lonja is inaugurated in Seville, which will later become the General Archive of the Indies.
1808.- The French raise the first siege they placed on Zaragoza, upon learning of the defeat of their Army in the Battle of Bailén.
1879.- The peace treaty between Spain and Peru is signed in Paris.
1881.- The Cuban doctor Carlos Finlay shows that the transmitting agent of yellow fever is the Aedes mosquito.
1912.- Intervention of North American forces in Nicaragua at the request of President Adolfo Díaz, to put down the uprising that threatened to overthrow him.
1914.- Japan declares war on Germany.
1917.- China declares war on Germany and its allies.
1919.- The new Reich Constitution enters into force.
1920.-The VII Olympic Games begin in Antwerp, after an eight-year hiatus due to the World War.
1941.- Signature of the Atlantic Charter, signed by Churchill and Roosevelt.
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1949.- First elections in the newly created Federal Republic of Germany won by the Christian Democrats led by Konrad Adenauer who was elected first chancellor on September 14.
1957.- Proclamation of the Kingdom of Morocco. The until then sultan Mohamed V becomes king.
1980.- The historic 17-day strike broke out at the Gdansk (Poland) shipyard, which gave rise to the birth of the “Solidarity” union.
1989.- The president of South Africa, Pieter Botha, announces his resignation.
1990.- The UN Committee on Decolonization urges the United Kingdom and Argentina to reach a peaceful agreement on the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands.
1994.- The Government of Sudan detains in Khartoum and hands over to France the Venezuelan terrorist Illitch Ramírez Sánchez, alias “Carlos”.
1996.-35 people are electrocuted when a high-voltage cable falls, hit by fireworks, at a festival on the occasion of the 456th anniversary of the founding of Arequipa, in Peru.
2000.- The Council of the Russian Orthodox Church approves the canonization of the last tsar, Nicholas II, and other members of his family.
2001.-A NASA experimental plane, powered by photovoltaic solar energy, breaks the world record for flying height.
2003.-A blackout paralyzes New York and spreads to other cities in the northeast of the country and southeast of Canada. It is the third largest in the last 38 years and the largest in US history.
2003.- Fernando Vaca Narvaja and Roberto Cirilo Perdía, two of the three responsible for the Montoneros, the armed wing of the Peronist left in the 70s, are arrested in Buenos Aires.
2006.-The US authorities arrest the Mexican Francisco Javier Arellano Félix, head of the Tijuana cartel.
2006.- Dell and Sony carry out the largest battery recall in the electronics industry due to fire threat
2007.-250 members of the Yazidi sect die when four suicide truck bombs explode in Nineveh (Iraq).
2008.-Poland and the United States agree on the creation of an anti-missile shield in Polish territory after years of negotiations.
2013.- The Russian brothers Pavel and Nikolai Durov launch the Telegram messaging application.
2015.- The American flag flies again in Cuba, after 54 years.
2016.- The South African athlete Wayde van Niekerk sets a new world record for the 400 meter dash with 43’03, surpassing that of Michael Johnson at the Rio de Janeiro Games.
2016.- The jihadist group Boko Haram released a video showing that the girls from Chibok (Nigeria), kidnapped in 2014, are still captive.
– Jamaican Usain Bolt, the first athlete in history to win three consecutive 100-meter Olympic titles by winning the final of the Rio Games.
2018.- 43 dead from the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa (Italy).
.-The Vermont Democrats make history in the US by electing a transgender candidate for the Governorship of a state for the first time.
2021.-A powerful earthquake in Haiti leaves more than 1,400 dead.
2021.-A powerful earthquake in Haiti leaves more than 1,400 dead.
BIRTHS:
1867.- John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel-1932.
1940.- Arístides Royo, former president of Panama.
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1947.- Danielle Steel, American writer.
1953.- James Horner, American soundtrack composer and conductor.
1959.- Magic Johnson, former American basketball player.
-Marcia Gay Harden, American actress.
1963.- Emmanuelle Béart, French actress.
1966.- Halle Berry, American actress.
1980.- Estrella Morente, flamenco singer.
1983.- Mila Kunis, Ukrainian naturalized American actress.
DEATHS:
1951.- William Randolph Hearst, American press magnate.
1956.- Bertolt Brecht, German poet and playwright.
1971.- Georg von Opel, German car manufacturer.
1972.- Pierre Braseur, French actor.
1985.- Sergio Galeotti, Italian architect and co-founder of Giorgio Armani Corporation.
1988.- Enzo Ferrari, Italian manufacturer of sports and racing cars.
1993.- José Basso, Argentine musician.
1994.- Elías Canetti, a British nationalized Bulgarian writer.
2004.- Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner for Literature.
2007.-Tijon Jrennikov, Russian composer.
2016.- Fyvush Finkel, American actor.
2020.- Julian Bream, English classical guitarist and lutenist.
2022.- Zvika Pick, singer and musician known as “the king of Israeli pop”. EFE
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