1938
Aug 14, Niara Shudarkasa, educator and first woman president of Lincoln University, was born.


1976
Aug 14, Some 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrated for peace in Belfast.


1995
Aug 14, Shannon Faulkner officially became the first female cadet in the history of The Citadel, South Carolina's state military college. She quit the school less than a week later, citing the stress of her court fight, and her isolation among the male cadets.


2005
Aug 14, Cristeta Comerford was named the new White House chef, the first woman to hold the post.


2007
Aug 14, Teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan transformed the space shuttle Endeavour and space station into a classroom for her first educational session from orbit, fulfilling the legacy of Christa McAuliffe, who died in the 1986 Challenger disaster.


2009
Aug 14, Lynette “Squeaky" Fromme (60), the Charles Manson follower convicted of trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, was released from a Texas prison hospital after more than three decades behind bars.


2009
Aug 14, It was reported that in North Carolina nine women, who lived at the edges of the poor community in Rocky Mount, have disappeared since 2005. Six bodies have been found along rural roads just a few miles outside town, most so decomposed that investigators could not tell how they died. At least one of the women was strangled. All the deaths have been classified as homicides. Three women were still missing.

2009
Aug 14, Hillary Clinton ended her whirlwind seven-nation African trip at Cape Verde, with a tough love message that Africans must tackle their own problems.


2014
Aug 14, In Arizona Michelle Cusseaux (50), was slain by a single bullet in the threshold of her Phoenix apartment after threatening officers with a claw hammer. Officers were serving an emergency court order to take her to a mental health care facility.


2014
Aug 14, New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan declared a state of emergency in response to 44 reported overdoses linked to people smoking or ingesting "Smacked," a synthetic marijuana-like product sold in convenience stores as potpourri.