1945: Truman announces Japanese surrender 1994: 'Carlos the Jackal' captured 1997: Timothy McVeigh sentenced
** FILE ** President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Bill in Washington in this Aug. 14, 1935 file photo. From left are: Chairman Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee; Sen. Wagner, D-N.Y, co-author of the bill, Secretary Perkins, Chairman Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, Rep. Lewis, D-Md., co-author of the measure. ** FILE ** President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Bill in Washington in this Aug. 14, 1935 file photo.
In 1936, in front of an estimated 20,000 spectators, Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States. In 1945, President Harry S. Truman announced that Imperial Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II.In 1994, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the terrorist known as “Carlos the Jackal,” was captured by French agents in Sudan.
Rescue workers continue digging through the rubble of the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City Thursday, April 20, 1995, after Wednesday’s fatal explosion.
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