1945

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

1935

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

1997

An unrepentant Timothy McVeigh was formally sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing. (McVeigh was executed by lethal injection in 2001.)

2009

Charles Manson follower Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, 60, convicted of trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, was released from a Texas prison hospital after more than three decades behind bars.