On this day: August 14
POSTED: 1:06 AM Aug 12 2012
UPDATED: 2:00 AM Aug 14 2012
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The license plate and Social Security are born, basketball makes a muddy Olympic debut, a classic backyard kids toy is invented, and the Oklahoma City bomber is sentenced to death, all on this day.
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1848: The Oregon Territory is organized by act of the United States Congress with Oregon City, Ore., as its capital. The territory encompasses all of the present-day states of Idaho, Oregon and Washington, as well as those parts of present day Montana and Wyoming west of the Continental Divide.
