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[1;32mToday is Wednesday August 14th, the 226th day of 1991.
There are 139 days left in the year.

[1;33mNotable deaths in [1;32mAMERICAN [1;33mon this date
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1936 [1;36mRainey Bethea, a black, becomes last person publicly hanged in US 
[1;36m         20,000 spectators attend the event
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1958 [1;36mMary Ritter Beard,  US historian, dies at 82 

[1;33mEvents on this day in [1;32mAMERICAN [1;33mhistory...
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1756 [1;36mFort Oswego, NY falls to French commander Montcalm (7 Years' War) 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1756 [1;36mthe French, under General Montcalm captured Ft. Oswego, N.Y. 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1765 [1;36mMass. colonists challenge British rule by an elm (Liberty Tree) 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1776 [1;36m1st land grant by Continental Congress; British deserters get 50 acres 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1794 [1;36mConvention remonstrates against federal liquor tax, western Penn. 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1834 [1;36mRichard Henry Dana, 19, leaves Boston for his 2 years before the mast 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1842 [1;36mSeminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1846 [1;36mHenry David thoreaus was jailed for tax resistence. 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1848 [1;36mOregon Territory established 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1848 [1;36mJoseph Lane, 1st US governor of Oregon Territory, arrives there, 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1850 [1;36mArmed squatters riot over validity of Sutter's grant 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1870 [1;36mAdmiral David Farragut died at Portsmouth, N.H., age 69. 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1910 [1;36m6th International Congress of Esperantists held in Washington, DC 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1912 [1;36m2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua - US remains until 1925 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1931 [1;36mCalifornia's Fair Trade Act prohibits discounts on brand-name products 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1934 [1;36m1st US migratory bird hunting stamp ("duck stamp") issued 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1935 [1;36mPresident Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1935 [1;36mSocial Security Act approved by Congress 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1936 [1;36mNat'l Union for Social Justice holds 1st nat'l convention, Cleveland 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1945 [1;36mPresident Truman announced that Japan unconditionally 
[1;36m         surrendered. V-J day.
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1962 [1;36ma record haul of $1,551,277 was taken during a robbery of 
[1;36m         a mail truck at Plymouth, Mass.
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1962 [1;36mUS mail truck in Plymouth, Mass. robbed of more than $1.5 million 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1964 [1;36mNegro students registered without incident at elementary 
[1;36m         college level in the state.
[1;36m         schools in Biloxi, Miss., the first desegregation below the
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1986 [1;36m13-year-old turns her parents in to police for drug possession, Calif. 

[1;33mAnd remember...
    [1;35m     [1;36mCoast Guard Day 
    [1;35m     [1;36mDog Days 