MisesWiki:Anniversaries/August 14
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August 14 (add):
- 1764 – In Boston, a mob directed by Samuel Adams began violently protesting the Stamp Act, marking the first revolutionary act against British tyranny.
- 1935 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, creating a social insurance program under which payroll taxes funded benefits for the elderly.