August 14
1848 - The Oregon Territory was created.
1900 - International forces entered Beijing, China in an effort to suppress the anti-foreign uprising known as the Boxer Rebellion.
1935 - The Social Security Act became law.
1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter, a statement of principles that renounced aggression.
1945 - Japan surrendered to the the United States, bringing an end to World War II.
1947 - Pakistan became independent of British rule.
1951 - Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst died in Beverly Hills, California.
1973 - U.S. bombing of Cambodia came to a halt.
1980 - Actor-model Dorothy Stratten was shot to death at age 20 by her estranged husband and manager, Paul Snider, who then killed himself.
1995 - Shannon Faulkner became the first female cadet at The Citadel, the state military college of South Carolina. (However, Faulkner quit the school less than a week later, citing the stress of her court fight, and her isolation among the male cadets.)
1997 - Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.
2003 - The largest blackout in North American history hit the northeast, due to a software bug that left more than 55 million in parts of the U.S. and Canada without power.
2009 - Charles Manson follower Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, 60, convicted of trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, was released from a Texas prison hospital after more than three decades behind bars.
2013 - Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for illegally spending $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items.
2018 - Puerto Rico officials announced that power was restored to the entire island for the first time since Hurricane Maria nearly 11 months earlier.
2018 - A state grand jury report concluded that some 300 Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania had molested more than 1,000 children since the 1940s and that church officials had covered up complaints.
2020 - India's coronavirus death toll overtook Britain's to become the fourth-highest in the world after another single-day record increase in cases.
2022 - A delegation of American lawmakers arrived in Taiwan just 12 days after a visit by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that angered China. China responded to Pelosi's visit by sending missiles, warships and warplanes into the seas and air around Taiwan. The five-member delegation, led by Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, was there to meet President Tsai Ing-wen and other officials, as well as members of the private sector, to discuss shared interests including reducing tensions in the Taiwan Strait and investments in semiconductors.
Birthdays
26 - Paige Turley (reality star)
29 - Maya Jama (TV host)
33 - Miranda Rae Mayo (actress)
36 - Tim Tebow (football player)
40 - Spencer Pratt (TV personality)
40 - Mila Kunis (actress)
42 - Kofi Kingston (professional wrestler)
45 - Kate Ritchie (actress)
49 - Christopher Gorham (actor)
52 - Scott Michael Campbell (actor)
55 - Catherine Bell (actress)
55 - Ben Bass (actor)
57 - Halle Berry (actress)
62 - Susan Olsen (actress)
64 - Ervin "Magic" Johnson (basketball player)
64 - Marcia Gay Harden (actress)
67 - Jackee Harry (actress)
73 - Gary Larson (cartoonist)
76 - Danielle Steel (author)
77 - Susan Saint James (actress)
77 - Antonio Fargas (actor)
78 - Steve Martin (actor/comedian)
88 - John Brodie (football player)
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Today in Sports History - August 14
1936 - The first basketball competition for a Gold Medal was held at the Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. The U.S. defeated Canada in poor conditions, outdoors, 19-8.
1937 - The Detroit Tigers set an American League record for most runs scored combined in a doubleheader with 36. (Beat the St. Louis Browns 16-1 and 20-7.)
1958 - Vic Power (Cleveland) stole home twice during the same game.
1959 - The first meeting was held to organize the American Football League; charter memberships were handed to Dallas, New York, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
1961 - The Philadelphia Phillies extended their losing streak to 17 games with a loss to the Chicago Cubs.
1971 - Bob Gibson (St. Louis Cardinals) threw a no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates. It was the first no-hitter at Forbes Field in 61 years.
1974 - The NFL Players Association ended their seven-week strike.
1976 - A charity softball game began for the Community General Hospital in Monticello, NY. The game was eventually called off due to weather after 30 hours. The final score was Gager's Diner's 491 to Bend 'n Elbow Tavern's 467.
1977 - The New York Cosmos and the Fort Lauderdale Strikes played a game in front of 77,961 fans at the Meadowlands in New Jersey. It was the largest crowd to witness a soccer game in the United States. The Cosmos beat the Strikers 8-3.
1986 - Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds) had his 4,256th and last basehit in a game against the San Francisco Giants.
1987 - Mark McGwire set the record for home runs by a rookie when he connected for his 49th home run of the season.
1993 - The New York Yankees retire Reggie Jackson's #44.
2016 - Justin Rose of Great Britain finishes with a score of 16 under par to win the inaugural men's individual golf gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; Rose is 2 strokes ahead of Henrik Stenson (Sweden) and 3 from American Matt Kuchar.
2021 - Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Tyler Gilbert throws a no-hitter in his MLB debut, defeating San Diego Padres, 7-0 in Phoenix; record equalling 8th no-hitter of the season.
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