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Show y m withered on their kIsvk hung limp and fit the trees a wistful lo soke 'iispered and was gone. : bestof- -Anne Mary Lawler "" ; w the most nostalgic ST: August is the 14th, the NAN 'reside at Turman E teed the surrender of m esling Worid War II, in LER COMMITTED i ii the face of Ger-iJifeat Ger-iJifeat and his immi-t immi-t in Berlin by the poninc in Russians on the last day of April. Germany surrendered on the 8th of May, ending the war in Europe. But the Japanese struggled on, even though President Truman and the retiring Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill, Chur-chill, gave Tokyo a virtual ultimatum ulti-matum at Potsdam on July 26, warning that unless they surrendered, sur-rendered, the nation faced "prompt and utter destruction." destruc-tion." The massive U.S. fleet steamed into Japanese waters and sank the remainder of the Japanese fleet. Army and Navy bombers struck hard at many targets. The Japanese fought on until the first atom bomb fell August 6, on Hiroshima. IN A few days another was used, and further warnings were issued. These new weapons and the horror of their destructive potential proved decisive. Japan surrendered, surren-dered, thereby preventing hundreds of thousands of fatalities fata-lities which would have seen suffered in an invasion of Japan. On the 14th in 1935, social security was established in the U.S., amid cries from the opposition that it would ruin the nation. Columbus sailed from Palos, Spain, on Aug. 3, ' 1492, in his voyage to the New World, and David Crockett was born Aug. 17, 1786 in Hawkins County, Tennessee. A POLITICAL assassination assassina-tion in 1935 took the life of Huey Long of Louisiana, then the virtual dictator of that state, born Aug. 30, 1893, in Winfield, La. And finally, the worst earthquake known east of the Mississippi occurred Aug. 3 1 , 1886. It was most disastrous dis-astrous at Charleston, S.C., but was felt from Jacksonville, Fla., north to Canada, and west to Iowa. |