📜 This Day in History

August 14

• 1264War of Saint Sabas: A Genoese fleet captured or sank most of the ships of a Venetian trade convoy off the Albanian coast.
• 1816The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
• 1941After a secret meeting in Newfoundland, British prime minister Winston Churchill and U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the Atlantic Charter, establishing a vision for a post–World War II world.
• 2005Helios Airways Flight 522 crashed into a mountain north of Marathon, Greece, killing all 121 people on board.
• 2010The inaugural edition of the Youth Olympic Games opened in Singapore for athletes aged between 14 and 18.
• 2021A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck in Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damages and economic loss.

Born on this day

• 1777Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist (died 1851)
• 1867John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1933)
• 1966Halle Berry, American model, actress, and producer
• 1983Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-American actress