Associated Press

On Aug. 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, ensuring income for elderly Americans and creating a federal unemployment insurance program.

In 1936, in front of an estimated 20,000 spectators, Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, in the last public execution in the United States.

In 1945, President Harry S. Truman announced that Imperial Japan had surrendered.

In 1947, Pakistan gained independence from British rule.

In 1997, an unrepentant Timothy McVeigh was formally sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.

In 2016, Usain Bolt became the first athlete to win the 100m dash in three consecutive Olympics.

In 2021, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, turning thousands of structures into rubble.