TODAY IN HISTORY

SUNDAY AUG 14, 2022

1945

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

1848 1935

The Oregon Territory was created.

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

1941

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

1947

Pakistan became independent of British rule.

1948

The Summer Olympics in London ended; they were the first Olympic games held since 1936.

1973

U.S. bombing of Cambodia came to a halt.

1980

Actor-model Dorothy Stratten, 20, was shot to death by her estranged husband and manager, Paul Snider, who then killed himself.

1994

Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the terrorist known as “Carlos the Jackal,” was captured by French agents in Sudan.

1995

Shannon Faulkner officially became the first female cadet in the history of The Citadel, South Carolina’s state military college.

1997

An unrepentant Timothy McVeigh was formally sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.

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.

2020

India’s coronavirus death toll overtook Britain’s to become the fourthhighest in the world after another single-day record increase in cases.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Broadway lyricist Lee Adams (“Bye Bye Birdie”) is 98. College Football Hall of Famer John Brodie is 87. Singer Dash Crofts is 84. Rock singer David Crosby is 81. Country singer Connie Smith is 81. Comedian-actor Steve Martin is 77. Movie director Wim Wenders is 77. Actor Antonio Fargas is 76. Singermusician Larry Graham is 76. Actor Susan Saint James is 76. Author Danielle Steel is 75. Rock singermusician Terry Adams (NRBQ) is 74. “Far Side” cartoonist Gary Larson is

72. Actor Carl Lumbly is 71. Olympic gold medal swimmer Debbie Meyer is 70. Actor Jackee Harry is 66. Actor Marcia Gay Harden is 63. Basketball Hall of Famer Earvin “Magic” Johnson is 63. Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., is 63. Singer Sarah Brightman is 62. Actor Susan Olsen is

61. Actor-turned-fashion/interior designer Cristi Conaway is 58. Rock musician Keith Howland (Chicago) is 58. Actor Halle Berry is 56. Actor Ben Bass is 54. Actor Catherine Bell is 54. Rock musician Kevin Cadogan is 52. Actor Scott Michael Campbell is 51.