August 14th in history

 

Events

2010: First ever youth Olympics-2010 summer youth’s Olympics games starts in Singapore

2007: Multiple suicide bombings kill over 550 in Qahtaniya Iraq

2003: Power outages occur for over 10hours all over North-Eastern North America after Ohio FirstEnergy power plant shut down unexpectedly.

1996: Microsoft releases internet explorer version 3.0

1989: President Pieter W Botha of south Africa resigns

1984: Ibm releases PC DOS version 3.0

1951: Great Britain and Iraq signs new oil contract

1947: India granted independence within British Commonwealth

1937: world war II, China declares war on Japan.

Wedding

1964: world heavy weight champion Mohammad Ali weds cocktail waitress Sonja Roi

Death

1996: Uzo Egonu, a Nigerian born painter dies at 64