August 14

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1848	Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.	Daniel Moore	Oregon (Give Me Wings)	Unknown
2	1885	Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.	Menomena	Wet & Rusty	Friend and Foe
3	1888	An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London.	A Silver Mt. Zion	Broken Chords Can Sing a Little	He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms
4	1901	The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.	The Charlatans UK	Come in Number 21	Up to Our Hips
5	1935	United States Social Security Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired.	Damien Jurado	Tonight I Will Retire	Ghost of David
6	2003	Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.	Now It's Overhead	Blackout Curtain	Now It's Overhead

(Historical facts about August 14 are from Wikipedia.)