On This Day

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Welcome to another exciting episode of TODAY IN HISTORY. Sit tight as we take you down memory lane on this day; August 14th.

August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 139 days remaining until the end of the year.

1457 - The first book ever printed is published by a German astrologer named Faust. He is thrown in jail while trying to sell books in Paris. Authorities concluded that all the identical books meant Faust had dealt with the devil.

1893 - Vehicle registration plates were first introduced; by the French.

1945: Japan stops fighting resulting in the end of World War II.

1947 - Pakistan becomes an independent country from Britain with Mohammed Ali Jinnah as president.

1935 – Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the
Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.

1968: Floods in India claim more than 1,000 lives in seven days.

2006 – Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in
Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike.

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