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8/15 1994 – The U.S. Social Security Administration became an independent government agency. It had been a part of the Department of Health and Human Services agency. 


At a historic White House bill-signing ceremony on August
15 1994, Public Law 103-296-Social Security Independence
and Program Improvements Act of 1994-was signed into law.
President Bill Clinton symbolically used one of the pens President Franklin Roosevelt had used when he signed the original
Social Security Act 59 years ago, on August 14,1935. The new
legislation officially separates the Social Security Administration
(SSA) horn the Department of Health and Human Services
(HBS), effective March 3 1, 1995, and restores the SSA to its
original status as an independent Federal agency. (Since 1939,
SSA has operated under the direction of a “parent” agency.)
A single administrator will lead the agency with a seven-member
bipartisan advisory board. Also contained in the new law is a
number of other major changes affecting the Social Security and
supplemental security Income (SSI) programs.

for more go to ssa.gov    … a pdf file

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8/11 -16th 1965 – Watts Riots begin The five days of violence left 34 dead, 1,032 injured, nearly 4,000 arrested, and $40 million worth of property destroyed.


police in Watts, 1966

police in Watts, 1966

Police searching men in the Watts district of Los Angeles in March 1966, seven months after the confrontations between police and residents that became known as the Watts Riots and that were followed by ongoing tension and violence in the community.Bettmann/Corbis/AP Images

 

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Jill A. Edy

Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Oklahoma. She contributed an article on “Watts Riots of 1965” to SAGE Publications’ Encyclopedia of Governance (2007), and a version of this…
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Watts Riots of 1965, series of violent confrontations between Los Angeles police and residents of Watts and other predominantly African American neighbourhoods of South-Central Los Angeles that began August 11, 1965, and lasted for six days. The immediate cause of the disturbances was the arrest of an African American man, Marquette Frye, by a white California Highway Patrol officer on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Although most accounts now agree that Frye resisted arrest, it remains unclear whether excessive force was used to subdue him. The riots resulted in the deaths of 34 people, while more than 1,000 were injured and more than $40 million worth of property was destroyed. Many of the most vivid images of the riots depict the massive fires set by the rioters. Hundreds of buildings and whole city blocks were burned to the ground. Firefighters were unable to work, because police could not protect them from the rioters.Resource: britannica.com