ALMANAC Today’s birthdays

Today is Friday,

Aug. 14, the 227th day of 2020. There are 139 days left in the year.

Highlight in history

On Aug. 14, 1997, an unrepentant Timothy Mcveigh was formally sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing. (Mcveigh was executed by lethal injection in 2001.) On this date

In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law.

In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter, a statement of principles that renounced aggression.

In 1945, President

Harry S. Truman announced that Imperial Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II.

In 1992, the White House announced that the Pentagon would begin emergency airlifts of food to Somalia to alleviate mass deaths by starvation.

In 2008, President George W. Bush signed legislation that banned lead from children’s toys, imposing the toughest standard in the world.

In 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.

Rock singer David Crosby is 79. Comedianactor Steve Martin is 75. Author Danielle Steel is 73. “Far Side” cartoonist Gary Larson is 70. Basketball Hall of Famer Earvin “Magic” Johnson is 61. Singer Sarah Brightman is 60. Rock musician Keith Howland (Chicago) is 56. Actor Halle Berry is 54. Actor Mila Kunis is 37.

NFL quarterback-turnedbaseball player Tim Tebow is 33.