Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery

August 14, 1985 Michael Jackson outbid Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono for the ATV music-publishing catalog. Jackson paid $47.5 million for the rights to more than 250 songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

August 14, 1988 Roy Buchanan died after hanging himself in a jail in Fairfax, Virginia.

August 14, 1999 In Los Angeles, California, Leif Garrett plead guilty to drug possession to get into a rehabilitation program. He had been arrested on June 29, 1999.

August 14, 2000 A Russian submarine Kursk sank to the bottom of the Barrent Sea. There were 118 sailors on the nuclear-powered vessel. All of the crew were pronounced dead on August 22.

August 15, 1994 International terrorist Ilich ‘Carlos the Jackal’ Ramírez Sánchez  was captured in Sudan. The next day he was extradited to France.

August 14, 1973 The United States bombing of Cambodia ended. The halt marked the official end to 12 years of combat in Indochina by the U.S.

August 14, 1941 United States President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter. The charter was a statement of principles that renounced aggression.

August 14, 1935 United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. The act created unemployment insurance and pension plans for the elderly.

August 14, 1900 An international force, consisting of eight nations, lifted the siege of Peking. It was an end to the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreigners.

August 14, 1896 Gold was discovered in Canada’s Yukon Territory. Within the next year more than 30,000 people rushed to the area for the Klondike Gold Rush.

August 13, 2007 Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop and broadcaster Phil Rizzuto [left] died at age 89.

August 13, 2007 Philanthropist Brooke Astor died at age 105.

August 13, 1995 Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle died of liver cancer at age 63.

August 13, 1999 The movie Detroit Rock City opened.