August 14 in history: • 1720 – The Spanish Villasur expedition, intended to slow the progress of French influence on the Great Plains of North America, ended in failure when it was ambushed by Pawnee and Otoe forces. → go there • 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. → go there • 1945 – Kenji Hatanaka (pictured) and other Japanese military officers launched an attempted coup d'état to prevent the surrender of Japan. → go there • 2005 – Helios Airways Flight 522 crashed into a mountain north of Marathon, Greece, killing all 121 people on board. → go there • 2007 – Four coordinated suicide bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi communities of Qahtaniya and Jazeera, Iraq, killing 796 people and wounding 1,562 others. → go there Born 1502: Pieter Coecke van Aelst Wiki link Born 1929: Louise Slaughter Wiki link Born 2002: HueningKai Wiki link Died 2011: Shammi Kapoor Wiki link Pictured: Kenji Hatanaka.