On This Day for August 14 - Cologne Cathedral completed, Halle Berry is featured, and more

Created: 2020-08-14 10:04 Updated: 2020-08-14 10:04 Notebook: On this Day in History

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August 14

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Halle Berry

Cologne Cathedral, lit up at night, and the Hohenzollern rail and pedestrian bridge over the Rhine River, Cologne, Germany.

FEATURED EVENT

1880

Cologne Cathedral completed

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MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2016: Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt won the 100-metres at the Rio de Janeiro Games, becoming the first person to win the event in three consecutive Olympics; he later claimed an unprecedented third straight gold medal in the 200-metres. [Take our track and field quiz.]

2004: Polish-born poet, essayist, and critic Czesław Miłosz—who was considered one of the major poets of the 20th century and won the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature—died in Kraków. [Sort fact from fiction in our poetry quiz.]

1994: Venezuelan militant Carlos the Jackal, who orchestrated some of the highest-profile terrorist attacks of the 1970s and '80s, was captured by French agents in Sudan; he was later sentenced to life in prison for his crimes. [ Take our criminality and famous outlaws quiz.]

1959: American basketball player Magic Johnson, who led the National Basketball Association (NBA) Los Angeles Lakers to five championships, was born in Lansing, Michigan. [Test your knowledge of basketball player nicknames.]

1947: Pakistan became a sovereign state, bringing an end to British rule there.

1941: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the Atlantic Charter, a joint declaration that stated, among other points, that they desired no territorial changes without the free assent of the peoples concerned. [Take our quiz about famous documents.]

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1959

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American basketball player

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Halle Berry
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1945

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1945

Wim Wenders
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1947

Danielle Steel
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