August 14, 2023: This Day in History

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2023-08-14

August 14, 992: Zhao Pu, an outstanding statesman and renowned strategist of the early Northern Song Dynasty, passed away.

August 14, 1871: Zaitian, the Guangxu Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, was born.

August 14, 1880: The Cologne Cathedral was officially completed.

August 14, 1900: Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu fled Beijing.

August 14, 1900: Linguist Ma Jianzhong passed away.

August 14, 1900: The Eight-Nation Alliance occupied Beijing.

August 14, 1912: Jin Kemu, one of the "Four Elders of Yan Yuan," was born.

August 14, 1915: Yang Du and five others initiated the Chou'an Hui (Constitutional Protection Society).

August 14, 1917: China officially declared war on Germany and Austria.

August 14, 1920: The seventh Olympic Games were held in Antwerp.

August 14, 1925: The Svalbard Treaty was signed.

August 14, 1929: The Chinese Eastern Railway Incident.

August 14, 1937: Japanese aircraft bombed Nanjing.

August 14, 1937: The National Government issued the "Declaration of Self-Defense Resistance".

August 14, 1937: The "August 14th" air battle.

August 14, 1941: The Atlantic Charter was officially announced.

August 14, 1941: The Japanese army launched a large-scale "sweep" of the Jin-Cha-Ji border region.

August 14, 1945: The Kuomintang signed the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance with the Soviet Union.

August 14, 1945: Chiang Kai-shek rejected the Mongolian autonomy request.

August 14, 1945: The Communist army advanced into Northeast China in three routes.

August 14, 1948: The fourteenth Olympic Games were held in London, England.

August 14, 1953: The Soviet Union announced it possessed a hydrogen bomb.

August 14, 1960: The Communist Party of China launched an increase production and economy campaign.

August 14, 1971: Mao Zedong made an important speech during his southern tour.

August 14, 1975: Mao Zedong initiated criticism of "Water Margin".

August 14, 1988: Enzo Ferrari, founder of Ferrari, passed away in Modena.

August 14, 1992: The Long March 2 rocket successfully launched the Aussat satellite.

August 14, 1993: Japanese documents first confirmed that the Japanese army used biological weapons in China.

August 14, 1997: Scientists discovered the earliest human footprints.

August 14, 1998: The Hong Kong SAR government entered the market to counter international speculators.

August 14, 2001: China's first domestically produced maglev passenger car was completed and rolled off the production line at the Changchun Passenger Car Factory.

August 14, 2002: Beijing's first business license obtained through online approval was issued.

August 14, 2007: Iraq experienced its deadliest bomb attack.

August 14, 2010: The first Youth Olympic Games were held in Singapore.

August 14, 2012: Zhou Kehua was shot and killed.

August 14, 2016: Wang Baoqiang's divorce.

August 14, 2017: Trump signed a memorandum, marking the beginning of Sino-US trade friction.

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