THE DAY IN HISTORY · AUGUST 14
August 14 in history
What happened on August 14: 3 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1791, 1947 and 1952, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Bois Caïman ceremony
14 Aug 1791 — At a night ceremony in the woods, Boukman and the enslaved of the northern plain resolve on revolt. Within weeks a thousand plantations are burning.
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— Independence of Pakistan
14 Aug 1947 — Jinnah, Governor-General at last, takes the salute in the new capital. Three days earlier he told the Constituent Assembly: “You may belong to any religion or caste or creed — that has nothing to do with the business of the State.”
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— Equalisation of Burdens Act
14 Aug 1952 — The Bundestag passes the Lastenausgleich law: owners of property that survived the war pay a levy of half its 1948 value, spread over thirty years, into a fund compensating expellees and bombed-out citizens. By 1986 it had paid out more than 130 billion marks, one of the largest transfers of wealth in West German history.
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