What happened on 14 August?

10 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1947 Pakistan independence Pakistan separates from British India; born one day before India's own independence.
2. 1935 Social Security Act 1935 New Deal cornerstone establishing social insurance.
3. 1947 Nehru's 'Tryst with Destiny' As midnight approaches in the Constituent Assembly, Nehru rises: 'Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India wi
4. 1864 Taiping Rebellion ends Conventional end of Taiping Rebellion.
5. 1900 Eight-Nation Alliance captures Beijing An international expeditionary force relieves the legations and sacks Beijing, ending the rebellion.
6. 1791 Boukman's Vodou ceremony at Bois Caïman Houngan priest Boukman leads a ceremony in northern Haiti where slaves swear to rise; conventional trigger for the Haitian Revolution.
7. 1980 Solidarity strike at Lenin Shipyard Lech Wałęsa leads strike at Gdańsk; founding of Solidarity, first independent trade union in the Soviet bloc.
8. 1936 The massacre at Badajoz After storming the border city, the Army of Africa herds perhaps two thousand prisoners and militiamen into the bullring and machine-guns them over days. Foreign correspondents fil
9. 1385 Union of Krewo Grand Duke Jogaila agrees to accept Christianity and marry Queen Jadwiga of Poland, founding the Jagiellonian dynasty and yoking Poland and Lithuania together for four centuries.
10. 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 The New Poor Law — relief only inside the workhouse, on terms 'less eligible' than the meanest labour — the hated backdrop to Oliver Twist.