WHAT HAPPENED ON 14. AUGUST
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Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards. (14. August 1980)

All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid. (14. August 1987)

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal," is captured. (14. August 1994)

Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus. (14. August 1996)

Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada. (14. August 2003)

Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing. (14. August 2006)

The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 796 people. (14. August 2007)

The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore. (14. August 2010)

Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi. (14. August 2013)