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Partition Horrors Remembrance Day commemorates the victims and sufferings of people during the Partition of India in 1947.

On August 14, in the year 0, Partition Horrors Remembrance Day commemorates the victims and sufferings of people during the Partition of India in 1947. This event is recorded as a Holidays event in the history of August 14, one of 325 recorded events on this date across all of history.

Partition Horrors Remembrance Day is an annual national memorial day observed on 14 August in India, commemorating the victims and sufferings of people during the 1947 partition of India. It was first observed in 2021, after an announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Key Facts

  • This event took place on August 14, 0 (AD era).
  • It is categorised as a Holidays event in recorded history.
  • Referenced in 1 Wikipedia article.
  • Wikipedia source last updated on 26 July 2026.

On This Date in History 325

Type Year Date Event
Notable Deaths 2025 Aug 14 Mike Castle, American politician, 69th Governor of Delaware (born 1939)
Notable Deaths 2024 Aug 14 Gena Rowlands, American actress (born 1930)
Historical Events 2023 Aug 14 Former U.S. president Donald Trump is charged in Georgia along with 18 others in attempting to overturn the results of…
Notable Deaths 2023 Aug 14 Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, Bangladeshi Islamic lecturer, politician (born 1940)
Historical Events 2022 Aug 14 An explosion destroys a market in Armenia, killing six people and injuring dozens.
Historical Events 2021 Aug 14 A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis.
Notable Deaths 2021 Aug 14 Michael Aung-Thwin, American historian and scholar of Burmese and Southeast Asian history (born 1946)
Selected Events 2021 Aug 14 A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck in Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damages and…
Notable Deaths 2020 Aug 14 Julian Bream, English classical guitarist and lutenist (born 1933)
Notable Deaths 2020 Aug 14 Angela Buxton, British tennis player (born 1934)
Notable Deaths 2020 Aug 14 James R. Thompson, American politician, Governor of Illinois (born 1936)
Notable Deaths 2019 Aug 14 Polly Farmer, Australian footballer and coach (born 1935)
Historical Events 2018 Aug 14 The collapse of the Ponte Morandi bridge in Genoa, Italy, left 16 people injured and 43 people killed.
Notable Deaths 2018 Aug 14 Jill Janus, American singer (born 1975)
Notable Deaths 2016 Aug 14 Fyvush Finkel, American actor (born 1922)
Historical Events 2015 Aug 14 The U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–United States relations were broken…
Notable Deaths 2015 Aug 14 Bob Johnston, American songwriter and producer (born 1932)
Notable Deaths 2014 Aug 14 Leonard Fein, American journalist and academic, co-founded Moment Magazine (born 1934)
Notable Deaths 2014 Aug 14 George V. Hansen, American politician (born 1930)
Historical Events 2013 Aug 14 Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president…
Historical Events 2013 Aug 14 UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing both…
Notable Deaths 2013 Aug 14 Jack Germond, American journalist and author (born 1928)
Selected Events 2013 Aug 14 Security forces raided two camps of supporters of the ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi in Cairo, leading to the…
Notable Deaths 2012 Aug 14 Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian lawyer and politician, Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1945)
Notable Deaths 2012 Aug 14 Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian chess player (born 1923)
Notable Deaths 2012 Aug 14 Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (born 1919)
Notable Deaths 2010 Aug 14 Herman Leonard, American photographer (born 1923)
Selected Events 2010 Aug 14 The inaugural edition of the Youth Olympic Games opened in Singapore for athletes aged between 14 and 18.
Historical Events 2007 Aug 14 The Kahtaniya bombings kill at least 500 people.
Notable Deaths 2007 Aug 14 Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer (born 1913)
Selected Events 2007 Aug 14 Four coordinated suicide bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi communities of Qahtaniya and Jazeera, Iraq, killing 796…
Historical Events 2006 Aug 14 Lebanon War: A ceasefire takes effect three days after the United Nations Security Council's approval of United…
Historical Events 2006 Aug 14 Sri Lankan Civil War: Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lanka Air Force air strike.
Notable Deaths 2006 Aug 14 Bruno Kirby, American actor (born 1949)
Historical Events 2005 Aug 14 Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills…
Selected Events 2005 Aug 14 Helios Airways Flight 522 crashed into a mountain north of Marathon, Greece, killing all 121 people on board.
Notable Births 2004 Aug 14 Marsai Martin, American actress and producer
Notable Deaths 2004 Aug 14 Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born American novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
Notable Deaths 2004 Aug 14 Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (born 1918)
Historical Events 2003 Aug 14 A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
Notable Deaths 2003 Aug 14 Helmut Rahn, German footballer (born 1929)
Notable Deaths 2002 Aug 14 Larry Rivers, American painter and sculptor (born 1923)
Notable Births 2000 Aug 14 Johan Rojas, Dominican baseball player
Notable Deaths 1999 Aug 14 Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1918)
Notable Births 1998 Aug 14 Doechii, American rapper
Notable Births 1997 Aug 14 Greet Minnen, Belgian tennis player
Historical Events 1996 Aug 14 Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a…
Notable Deaths 1996 Aug 14 Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (born 1912)
Notable Births 1995 Aug 14 Léolia Jeanjean, French tennis player
Historical Events 1994 Aug 14 Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.

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