Sunday, August 14, 2005

Sunday, August 14

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.
Happy Birthday To
  • 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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