This Day In History
- 1848 The Oregon Territory was established.
- 1873 The first issue of "Field and Stream" magazine was published.
- 1900 International forces, including U.S. Marines, entered Beijing to put down the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreigners.
- 1917 China declared war on Germany and Austria during World War I.
- 1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, creating unemployment insurance and pension plans for the elderly.
- 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter, a statement of principles that renounced aggression.
- 1945 This is the day that U.S. President Harry S Truman announced that Japan had surrendered to the Allies [WWII]. Thousands thronged into the streets throughout the United States to celebrate V-J Day. The official ratification of the surrender didn’t take place until September 2, in Tokyo Bay aboard the "USS Missouri".
- 1947 Pakistan became independent of British rule.
- 1951 Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst died in Beverly Hills, Calif.
- 1969 British troops arrived in Northern Ireland to intervene in sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics.
- 1973 The U.S. bombing of Cambodia came to a halt.
- 1995 Shannon Faulkner became the first female cadet in the history of The Citadel, South Carolina's state military college. (She quit the school less than a week later.)
- 1996 The Republican National Convention in San Diego nominated Bob Dole for president and Jack Kemp for vice president.
- 1997 An unrepentant Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.
- 2003 A huge blackout hit the northeastern United States and part of Canada; 50 million people lost power.
- 1863 Ernest Thayer (writer: Casey at the Bat; died in 1940)
- 1926 Alice Ghostley (actress: Designing Women, Bewitched, Mayberry R.F.D., The Graduate, To Kill a Mockingbird, With Six You Get Eggroll)
- 1945 Steve Martin (Emmy Award-winning comedy writer, comedian, actor)
- 1946 Susan Saint James (Susan Jane Miller) (Emmy Award-winning actress)
- 1950 Gary Larson (cartoonist: The Far Side)
- 1961 Susan Olsen (actress: The Bradys, The Brady Bunch Hour, The Brady Bunch)
- 1968 Catherine Bell (actress: JAG)
- 1968 Halle Berry (Academy Award-winning actress)
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