Today in History - History - August 14th

1986Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrested

1993Reggie Jackson Day - NY Yanks retire 13th # (#44)

1966Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open

1941US President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issue the joint declaration that later becomes known as the Atlantic Charter

199476th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 269 at Southern Hills Tulsa

1846Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance

1980Democratic Convention in NYC nominates Jimmy Carter & Walter Mondale

1987Oakland's Mark McGwire sets rookie HR record at 39, en route to 49

1973Johnny Unitas files $725,000 suit against Balt Colts

1903james j jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 10 for heavyweight boxing title

1947Danielle Steel, New York, American novelist (Wanderlust, The House)

1851Doc Holliday, Griffin Georgia, American gambler, dentist and gunfighter (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral)

1777Hans Christian Oersted, Rudkøbing, Denmark, physicist/chemist (View of Chemical Law), (d. 1951)

1950Gary Larson, Tacoma, Washington, cartoonist (Far Side)

1964World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali (22) weds cocktail waitress Sonja Roi

1756Frontiersman Daniel Boone (21) weds Rebecca Bryan (17) in Yadkin River, North Carolina

1965Former fashion model and fitness guru Jane Fonda (27) weds director/producer Roger Vadim (37) in Las Vegas

2010Actress and singer Hilary Duff (24) weds retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre Mike Comrie (31) at La Quinta Estate in Montecito, California

1870David Farragut, American Admiral ("Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"), dies at 69

1951William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills aged 88