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This day in history

Today is Monday, Aug. 14, the 226th day of 2017. There are 139 days left in the year.

Today’s Birthdays: Broadway lyricist Lee Adams (“Bye Bye Birdie”) is 93. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Russell Baker is 92. Former quarterback John Brodie is 82. Singer Dash Crofts is 79. Rock singer David Crosby is 76. Comedian-actor-banjo player Steve Martin is 72. Movie director Wim Wenders is 72. Actress Susan Saint James is 71. Author Danielle Steel is 70. “Far Side’’ cartoonist Gary Larson is 67. Olympic gold medal swimmer Debbie Meyer is 65. Actress Marcia Gay Harden is 58. Basketball Hall of Famer Earvin ‘‘Magic’’ Johnson is 58. Singer Sarah Brightman is 57. Actress Halle Berry is 51.

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In 1900, international forces, including US Marines, entered Beijing to put down the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreign influence.

In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law.

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

In 1967, folk singer Joan Baez performed a free concert on the grounds of the Washington Monument a day after she’d been denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her opposition to US involvement in the Vietnam War.

In 1969, British troops went to Northern Ireland to intervene in sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics.

In 1973, US bombing of Cambodia ended.

In 1980, workers went on strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, in a job action that resulted in creation of the Solidarity labor movement.

In 1992, the White House announced that the Pentagon would begin emergency airlifts of food to Somalia to alleviate mass deaths by starvation.

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

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In 2007, teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan transformed the space shuttle Endeavour and space station into a classroom for her first educational session from orbit, fulfilling the legacy of Christa McAuliffe, who died in the Challenger disaster in 1986.

Last year, at the Rio Olympics, US swimmer Ryan Lochte and three teammates reported being robbed at gunpoint; police later said the men were not robbed, and instead vandalized a gas station bathroom. (Lochte was charged with filing a false robbery report, but a Brazilian court dismissed the case.) Usain Bolt of Jamaica became the first person to win three straight Olympic 100-meter titles, blowing down the straightaway in 9.81 seconds.