domingo, 14 de agosto de 2011

On This Day: August 14

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On Aug. 14, 1945, President Truman announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II.

On Aug. 14, 1886, Arthur J. Dempster, the American physicist who built the first device for measuring charged particles, was born. Following his death on March 11, 1950, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

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.

Current Birthdays

Actress Halle Berry turns 45 years old today.

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Actress Mila Kunis turns 28 years old today.

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1925	Russell Baker, Newspaper columnist, turns 86
1930	Earl Weaver, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 81
1938	Dash Crofts, Singer (Seals and Crofts), turns 73
1941	David Crosby, Rock singer, musician (Crosby, Stills and Nash), turns 70
1945	Steve Martin, Actor, comedian, turns 66
1946	Susan Saint James, Actress ("Kate and Allie," "McMillan and Wife"), turns 65
1947	Danielle Steel, Author, turns 64
1950	Gary Larson, Cartoonist ("Far Side"), turns 61
1959	Magic Johnson, Basketball Hall of Famer, turns 52
1959	Marcia Gay Harden, Actress, turns 52
1960	Sarah Brightman, Singer, turns 51
1961	Susan Olsen, Actress ("The Brady Bunch"), turns 50
1968	Catherine Bell, Actress ("Army Wives," "JAG"), turns 43
1975	Mike Vrabel, Football player, turns 36

Historic Birthdays

Arthur J. Dempster8/14/1886 - 3/11/1950American physicist, inventor of the first mass spectrometer.Go to obituary »

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"