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August 14
What happened on this day
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Atlantic Charter
85 years ago
Roosevelt and Churchill agree eight principles for the postwar world aboard warships off Newfoundland in 1941, the seed of the United Nations.
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Pakistan Independence Day
79 years ago
Pakistan declares independence from British rule in 1947, the day before India's own independence.
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Magic Johnson born
67 years ago
The point guard who remade the position is born in 1959; five NBA titles with the Lakers, then a 1991 HIV diagnosis that shifted public understanding of it.
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Social Security Act signed
91 years ago
Roosevelt signs the act creating American old-age pensions and unemployment insurance in 1935, the core of the New Deal's welfare state.
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