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What happened on August 14 in American history
August 14 is the 226th day of the year (the 227th in leap years). Patriot Compass has published 7 stories from August 14 spanning 1784 to 2015. Among them: in 1784, Cannon fire rakes a Kodiak refuge rock; hundreds of Alutiiq are dead; and in 1842, Washington declares the Seminole war over; no one signed anything.
1784Member story · 1776 Club
Cannon fire rakes a Kodiak refuge rock; hundreds of Alutiiq are dead
Grigory Shelikhov's 130 armed men take Awa'uq, then hold 400 hostage children to break the island's resistance.
1842
Washington declares the Seminole war over; no one signed anything
General Worth's campaign of burned villages and starved crops empties the Everglades of most Seminole resistance, but a few hundred hold out.
1848Member story · 1776 Club
Congress creates Oregon Territory, stretching from California's border to Canada
Seven years after the first wagon trains rolled west, the region finally got a governor appointed in Washington.
1935
Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act; the elderly get a federal pension
Payroll taxes will fund old-age benefits, unemployment insurance, and aid to families with dependent children.
1941
Churchill and Roosevelt issue a joint charter for the postwar world
Meeting in secret off Newfoundland, the two leaders lay out eight principles for peace before America has even entered the war.
1959Member story · 1776 Club
Six men gather in a Chicago hotel and vote a rival league into being
Lamar Hunt, turned away by the NFL, lines up owners for Dallas, New York, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles and the Twin Cities.
2015Member story · 1776 Club
Kerry reopens the U.S. Embassy in Havana after 54 years without a flag
Three Marines who lowered that same flag in 1961 hand a new one to the honor guard.
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