Today In History - August 14

410 Alaric sacks Rome
1248 The construction of Cologne Cathedral began
1385 The Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota
1457 Oldest known printed book
1756 The French capture Fort Oswego, NY
1813 The British warship Pelican attacks and captures the US war brigantine Argus
1842 The Seminole War ends and the Indians are moved from Florida to Oklahoma
1846 Henry David Thoreau is jailed for tax resistance
1848 The Oregon Territory is created
1862 Lincoln receives the first group of blacks for meetings
1873 The magazine "Forest and Stream" begins publishing
1876 Prairie View State University forms
1880 Construction of Cologne Cathedral is completed
1893 France issues first driving licenses
1900 International forces, including US Marines, enter Beijing to put down the Boxer Rebellion
1908 Race riot in Springfield, Illinois
1912 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua
1917 China declares war on Germany and Austria
1932 The 10th Olympic Games, at Los Angeles, closes
1935 The Social Security Act became law
1936 The first Olympic basketball game is played
1941 The Atlantic Charter is signed by FDR and Winston Churchill
1945 V-J Day: Japan surrenders unconditionally
1947 India is granted independence within the British Commonwealth
1947 Pakistan gains independence from Britain
1948 The 14th Olympic games, in London, closes
1958 A KLM flight crashes west of Ireland and kills 99 people
1962 French and Italian workers break through at the Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel: 7 miles of road and tunnel through the Alps.
1962 A US mail truck in Plymouth, Massachusetts is robbed of more than $1.5 million
1965 The Beatles tape an appearance for the Ed Sullivan Show
1969 British troops initiate military actions in Northern Ireland
1970 City University of New York inaugurates and opens for admissions
1971 Bahrain proclaims its independence
1972 An East German flight crashes near Moscow and kills 156 people
1973 The US bombs Cambodia
1974 Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold
1984 IBM releases MS-DOS: version 3.0
1988 Enzo Ferrari, the sports car manufacturer, dies at age 90
1990 City of Denver

1774 Captain Meriwether Lewis
1777 Hans Christian Oersted
1802 Letitia Elizabeth Landon
1860 Ernest T. Seton
1867 John Galsworthy
1901 Sir James Pitman
1903 John Ringling
1920 Nehemiah Persoff
1925 Russell Baker
1926 Alice Ghostly
1926 Buddy Greco
1930 Earl Weaver
1940 Dash Crofts
1941 Connie Smith
1941 David Crosby
1942 Sandy Gilmour
1943 Jon A. McBride
1944 Robyn Smith Astaire
1945 Steve Martin
1946 Antonio Fargas
1946 Larry Graham
1946 Susan St. James
1952 Debbie Meyer
1952 Mark C. Lee
1956 Sharon Bryant
1958 Ervin "Magic" Johnson
1961 Susan Olson
1965 Lynette Falls