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Operation Banner / V-J Day / Carlos the Jackal

On This Day (August 14): Your quick daily trip back in time.

Fatih Taskiran
August 14, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

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🚀 Time Machine

-1281

In the second Mongol invasion of Japan, Kublai Khan's fleet of 3,500 ships disappeared in a typhoon.

-1795

President George Washington signed the Jay (or “Jay’s”) Treaty with Great Britain.

-1842

After nearly seven years, US Army Colonel Worth declared the Second Seminole War over; more than 3,000 Seminole survivors relocated to Oklahoma, with only about 300 remaining.

-1917

China declares war on Germany as World War I enters its fourth year.

-1935

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law.

-1945

Imperial Japan surrenders unconditionally to the Allies on V-J Day, ending World War II. (Japanese time zone: August 15)

-1947

Pakistan gained independence from British rule.

-1969

Operation Banner begins with the British Army deploying on the streets of Northern Ireland.

-1980

Thousands of workers go on strike at Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, marking the beginning of Solidarity.

-1994

Illich Ramirez Sanchez, aka Carlos the Jackal, was captured by French intelligence in Khartoum, Sudan.

-2003

The Eastern United States and parts of Canada are affected by a major outage. Beginning at 4:10 p.m. ET, 21 power plants went down in just three minutes, and over 50 million people were affected.

📷 Snapshot

Test flight of Pan American Airlines' new plane with in-flight entertainment, 1965

💬 Final Words

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I’d like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.

Donald O'Connor

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