| 1848 |
The Oregon Territory was established. |
| 1900 |
International forces 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. |
| 1941 |
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter, a statement of principles that renounced aggression. |
| 1945 |
President Harry S. Truman announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II. |
| 1947 |
Pakistan became independent of British rule. |
| 1969 |
British troops arrived in Northern Ireland to intervene in sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics. |
| 1973 |
U.S. bombing of Cambodia came to a halt. |
| 1980 |
Workers went on strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland – a job action that resulted in the creation of the Solidarity labor movement. |
| 1980 |
President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale were nominated for a second term at the Democratic National Convention in New York. |
| 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 blackout hit the northeastern United States and part of Canada; 50 million people lost power. |
| 2006 |
Israel halted its offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas as a U.N.-imposed cease-fire went into effect after a month of warfare that killed more than 900 people. |
| 2009 |
Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a Charles Manson follower who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, was released from a Texas prison hospital after more than three decades behind bars. |
| 1925 |
Russell Baker, Newspaper columnist, turns 87 |
| 1930 |
Earl Weaver, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 82 |
| 1938 |
Dash Crofts, Singer (Seals and Crofts), turns 74 |
| 1941 |
David Crosby, Rock singer, musician (Crosby, Stills and Nash), turns 71 |
| 1945 |
Steve Martin, Actor, comedian, turns 67 |
| 1946 |
Susan Saint James, Actress (“Kate and Allie,” “McMillan and Wife”), turns 66 |
| 1947 |
Danielle Steel, Author, turns 65 |
| 1950 |
Gary Larson, Cartoonist (“Far Side”), turns 62 |
| 1959 |
Magic Johnson, Basketball Hall of Famer, turns 53 |
| 1959 |
Marcia Gay Harden, Actress, turns 53 |
| 1960 |
Sarah Brightman, Singer, turns 52 |
| 1961 |
Susan Olsen, Actress (“The Brady Bunch”), turns 51 |
| 1968 |
Catherine Bell, Actress (“Army Wives,” “JAG”), turns 44 |
| 1987 |
Tim Tebow, Football player, turns 25 |
| 70 |
Paolo Sarpi 8/14/1552 – 1/14/1623
Venetian patriot and scholar |
| 81 |
Cosimo III 8/14/1642 – 10/31/1723
Italian – 6th duke of Tuscany |
| 36 |
Letitia Landon 8/14/1802 – 10/15/1838
English poet and novelist |
| 86 |
Ernest Thompson Seton 8/14/1860 – 10/23/1946
British/Canadian naturalist and writer; helped found the Boy Scouts of America |
| 77 |
Ernest Thayer 8/14/1863 – 8/21/1940
American writer; wrote “Casey at the Bat” |
| 65 |
John Galsworthy 8/14/1867 – 1/31/1933
English Nobel Prize-winning novelist and playwright (1932) |
| 86 |
Daniel Jackling 8/14/1869 – 3/13/1956
American mining engineer and metallurgist |
| 79 |
Eduardo Mallea 8/14/1903 – 11/12/1982
Argentine novelist, essayist and short-story writer |
| 85 |
Pierre Schaeffer 8/14/1910 – 8/19/1995
French composer, acoustician and electronics engineer |
| 77 |
Max Klein 8/14/1915 – 5/20/1993
American painter; invented “paint by numbers” |
Arthur J. Dempster 8/14/1886 – 3/11/1950 American physicist, inventor of the first mass spectrometer.
