What day of the week was August 14, 1996?

The day of the week August 14th, 1996 fell on was a Wednesday.

Sergiu Celibidache the Romanian conductor and composer (b. 1912) died on this day in 1996. As did Tom Mees the American sportscaster (b. 1949) , Solomos Solomou the Cypriot refugee (b. 1970) .

Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.