President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Social
Security Act on August 14, 1935.

Press photographers snapped pictures as FDR, flanked by
ranking members of Congress, signed into law the historic
act, which guaranteed an income for the unemployed and
retirees in the wake of the Great Depression.

In what later became known as Victory Day, an official
announcement of Japan’s unconditional surrender to
the Allies was made public to the world on August 14,
1945. (Because of time-zone differences, it was August
15 in Japan.)

Japan formally surrendered in writing two weeks later,
on September 2, 1945.

American servicemen and women in Paris celebrate V-J Day.

Edward Lodewijk Van Halen
(January 26, 1955 – October 6, 2020)

One of the most iconic guitars used by late rocker Eddie Van
Halen (above) is going up for auction, with his 1982 Kramer
expected to sell for millions.

New York auction house Sotheby’s will be handling the guitar’s
sale this fall as part of their inaugural Grails Week, which runs
from Oct. 21-28. 

Alfred Hitchcock, the British film director of "Psycho," "Rear
Window," "North by Northwest" and "Rebecca”,  is widely
regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history
of cinema with a career spanning six decades.

Shortly after midnight on August 13, 1961, East German soldiers
began laying down barbed wire and bricks as a barrier between
Soviet-controlled East Berlin and the democratic western section
of the city.