About the day » Saturday August 14, 2010Calender converter

• Jan Alphons Marie (Jan) WIJN (86), Culemborg (NL/UT)
• Antonia den Braber (80), Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana (Sjaan) van Roij (89), Schijndel, Noord-Brabant
• Gerharda Kruijer (64), Grijpskerk
• Gerhardus Bernardus ter Braak (82), Winterswijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berendina Klok (82), Almelo
• Geert Baas (57)
• Gerredina Koudijs (78)
• Hendrika Petronella Gertruda Coopmans (96)
• Henricus van Rijn (80), Willemstad, Netherlands

• 1985 » Christian Gentner, German footballer
• 1985 » Shea Weber, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 » Braian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer
• 1986 » Cameron Jerome, English footballer
• 1986 » Sam Moa, Tongan-New Zealand rugby league player
• 1987 » Tim Tebow, American football and baseball player, television personality and sportscaster
• 1989 » Ander Herrera, Spanish footballer
• 1989 » Florian Abel, German footballer
• 1989 » Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1991 » Richard Freitag, German ski jumper

• 2007 » Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli politician (b. 1939)
• 2007 » Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1913)
• 2010 » Herman Leonard, American soldier and photographer (b. 1923)
• 2010 » Rallis Kopsidis, Greek painter and author (b. 1929)
• 2011 » Fritz Korbach, German footballer and manager (b. 1945)
• 2012 » Maja Bošković-Stulli, Croatian historian and academic (b. 1922)
• 2012 » Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2012 » Sergey Kapitsa, English-Russian physicist and demographer (b. 1928)
• 2012 » Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian chess player and theoretician (b. 1923)
• 2012 » Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian lawyer and politician, 14th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1945)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
• January 12 » An earthquake in Haiti occurs, killing between 220,000 and 300,000 people and destroying much of the capital Port-au-Prince.
• February 27 » An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggers a tsunami which strikes Hawaii shortly after.
• April 10 » Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and dozens of other senior officials and dignitaries.
• June 24 » At Wimbledon, John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France, in the longest match in professional tennis history.
• August 8 » China Floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.
• September 19 » The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.

The temperature on August 14, 2010 was between 10.1 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.