On This Day:
Thursday August 14, 2014 This is the 226th day of the year, with 139 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: copper Copper is in the ashes of seaweeds, in many sea corals, in the human liver, and in many mollusks and arthropods. Copper plays the same role of oxygen transport in blue-blooded mollusks and crustaceans as iron does in red-blooded animals.
Holidays Feast day of St. Marcellus of Apamea, St. Fachanan, St. Athanasia of Aegina, St. Eusebius of Rome, and St. Maximilian Kolbe.
Pakistan: Independence Day.
Events 1457 - The first book ever printed was published by a German astrologer named Faust.
1784 - On Kodiak Island, Grigory Shelikhov, a Russian fur trader, founded Three Saints Bay, the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska.
1848 - The Oregon Territory was established.
1873 - The first issue of "Field and Stream" magazine was published.
1880 - The largest Gothic church in northern Europe, the Cologne Cathedral in Germany, was completed after 632 years of rebuilding.
1893 - France became the first country to introduce vehicle registration plates.
1900 - International forces, including U.S. Marines, entered Beijing to put down the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreign influence.
1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter.
1945 - Japan announced its unconditional surrender in World War II. President Harry Truman announced that World War II was over.
1947 - Pakistan became independent of British rule.
1973 - The United States ended the "secret" bombing of Cambodia.
1997 - An unrepentant Timothy McVeigh was formally sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.
2003 - A huge blackout hit the northeastern United States and part of Canada; 50 million people lost power; the power grid crash covered eight U.S. states from Michigan to Massachusetts and part of southeastern Canada, becoming the worst infrastructure collapse that the U.S. has ever suffered.
Births 1777 - Hans Christian Oersted, Danish scientist, who discovered electromagnetism.
1886 - Arthur J. Dempster, Canadian-American physicist.
1915 - Max Klein, American painter; invented "paint by numbers."
1941 - David Crosby (David Van Cortland), American musician, songwriter.
1945 - Steve Martin, American Emmy Award-winning comedy writer, comedian, actor, author.
Deaths 1951 - William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher.
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