Events
- 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan. (Traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei).
- 1885 - Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
- 1900 - A joint European-Japanese-United States force (Eight-Nation Alliance) occupies Beijing, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
- 1937 - The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers were shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases, hence, 14 August has thus become acknowledged and celebrated as Chinese Air Force Day.
- 1945 - Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan standard time).
Births
- 1297 - Emperor Hanazono (d. 1348)
- 1916 - Fumio Fujimura (d. 1992), baseball player and manager
- 1947 - Jiro Taniguchi, illustrator
- 1973 - Daisuke Ishiwatari, game developer, voice actor, and composer, created Guilty Gear
- 1979 - Yōichirō Morikawa, actor, director, and screenwriter
Deaths
- 1204 - Minamoto no Yoriie (b. 1182), shogun
- 1573 - Saitō Tatsuoki (b. 1548), daimyo