Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 14

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 * 1264 – War of Saint Sabas: A Genoese fleet captured or sank most of the ships of a Venetian trade convoy off the Albanian coast.
 * 1888 – One of the first recordings of music, of Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", was played at a press conference in London to introduce Thomas Edison's phonograph.
 * 1971 – The English rock band the Who released Who's Next, the group's only album to top the UK charts.
 * 1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou was shot to death by Turkish forces while trying to remove a Turkish flag from a flagpole in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
 * 2005 – Helios Airways Flight 522 crashed into a mountain north of Marathon, Greece, killing all 121 people on board.
 * 2007 – Four coordinated suicide bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi communities of Qahtaniya and Jazeera, Iraq, killing a 796 people and wounding 1,562 others.
 * 2010 – The inaugural edition of the Youth Olympic Games opened in Singapore for athletes aged between 14 and 18.
 * 2018 – The Ponte Morandi bridge collapsed in Genoa, Italy, killing 43 people.
 * Born/died: | Badr al-Mu'tadidi |d|902| Qian Hongzuo |b|928| Pieter Coecke van Aelst |b|1502| Doc Holliday |b|1851| Elsie Leslie |b|1881| Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji |b|1892| Connie Smith |b|1941Bobby Eaton |b|1958| Mila Kunis |b|1983