In 1848, the Oregon Territory was created.

In 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law.

In 1941, Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter, a statement of principles that renounced aggression.

In 1945, President Harry S. Truman announced that Imperial Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II.

In 1948, the Summer Olympics in London ended; they were the first Olympic games held since 1936.

In 1980, actor-model Dorothy Stratten, 20, was shot to death by her estranged husband and manager, Paul Snider, who then killed himself.

In 1997, an unrepentant Timothy Mcveigh was formally sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing. (Mcveigh was executed by lethal injection in 2001.)

In 2020, India’s coronavirus death toll overtook Britain’s to become the fourth-highest in the world after another single-day record increase in cases.