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Today in History ~ August 10
Independence Day, celebrated in Ecuador
Events0070 - "2nd Temple" of Jerusalem is set aflame
0843 - Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German & Charles the Bare divide France
0955 - Battle at Lech: German king Otto I beats Hungarians
1461 - Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma urges an Inquistion in Spain
1497 - John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to "Asia"
1500 - Diego Diaz arrived at the island of Madagascar.
1519 - Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate Earth
1557 - Battle at St Quentin: Lamoraal, Count Egmont & Philibert beat France
1627 - Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle
1675 - King Charles II lays foundation stone of Royal Observatory, Greenwich
1787 - Mozart completes his "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"
1792 - Mobs in Paris attack palace of Louis XVI and arrest King Louis XVI and his family
1809 - Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1821 - Missouri entered the Union as the twenty-fourth state and the first located entirely west of the Mississippi River [H]
1827 - Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
1831 - Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery
1833 - Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
1835 - Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH
1846 - Congress charters "nation's attic," Smithsonian Institution, named after English scientist James Smithson, whose bequest of $500,000 had made it possible. [H]
1861 - Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri [H]
1866 - Transatlantic cable laid-Pres Buchanan speaks to Queen Victoria
1869 - O B Brown patents moving picture projector
1877 - Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon slaughters Nez-Perc Indians
1889 - Dan Rylands patents screw cap
1893 - Chinese deported from San Francisco under Exclusion Act
1895 - 1st Queen's Hall Promenade Concert (Wagner's "Rienzi")
1904 - Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a priest
1904 - Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock
1904 - Japanese fleet defeat Russians off Port Arthur
1911 - Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords
1913 - 2nd Balkan War ends Treaty of Bucharest Bulgaria loses
1914 - At Luik, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary
1919 - Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine
1920 - Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia & Romania
1920 - Turkish Government renounces its claim to Israel recognizes British mandate
1921 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello.
1942 - Gen Bernard Law Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in N Africa
1943 - Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots
1944 - Race riots in Athens Alabama
1944 - During World War II, American forces overcame remaining Japanese resistance on Guam.
1945 - Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided status of Emperor Hirohito remains unchanged
1948 - ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY)
1948 - Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC
1949 - The National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense.
1960 - Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
1961 - England applies for membership in European Common Market
1965 - Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 launched
1968 - Race riot in Miami, Chicago & Little Rock
1969 - Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson's cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people were slain.
1972 - 1 million kg heavy meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada
1975 - David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon
1977 - Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers NY accused of being "Son of Sam" 44 caliber killer, the gunman responsible for six slayings and seven woundings. [H]
1977 - US & Panamana sign Panama Canal Zone accord
1980 - Mother Teresa visited The Bronx a borough of New York City
1981 - Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business
1981 - Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's record of 3630 hits.
1981 - Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes
1984 - Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run
1986 - "Me & My Girl" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 1420 performances
1986 - Billy Martin day Yanks retire #1
1988 - UN estimates Asia's population hits 3 billion
1988 - President Reagan signed a measure providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were interned during World War II.
1990 - The Magellan spacecraft entered the orbit of Venus.
1991 - Nine Buddhists were found slain at their temple outside Phoenix, Ariz. (Two teen-agers were later arrested; one pleaded guilty to murder, the other was convicted of murder.)
1991 - Tallest Structure in the World Collapses During renovation work the Warszawa Radio mast lost its structural integrity and came crashing to the ground
1991 - The Revolutionary Justice Organization, one of the groups holding hostages in Lebanon, announced it would release an American within 72 hours (the next day, Edward Tracy was freed).
1993 - One week after confirmation by the US Senate Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the 107th Supreme Court Justice
1994 - Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept1841)
1996 - Bob Dole completed the Republican ticket by announcing former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp as his running mate.
1996 - Cascading power outages hit parts of nine western states.
2000 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, defying the United States by being the first head of state to visit Iraq since the Gulf War.
Birthdays Today
1296 - John the Blind King of Bohemia/Count of Luxembourg
1560 - Hieronymus Praetorius, composer
1589 - Pietro Antonio Tamburini composer
1814 - John Clifford Pemberton, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1881
1865 - Alexander K Glazunov St Petersburg Russia composer (Chopiniana)
1874 - Herbert Clark Hoover, West Branch Iowa, (31st U.S. President; the 1st U.S. President born west of the Mississippi River and the first to have a telephone at his desk)
1899 - Jack (Jonathan) Haley, Sr. (actor: The Wizard of Oz, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Alexander's Ragtime Band)
1900 - Norma Shearer (Academy Award-winning actress: The Divorcee [1929-30], The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Private Lives, Romeo and Juliet)
1910 - Angus Campbell, psychologist sociologist
1913 - Steve Nagy (ABC & PBA Hall of Famer: bowler of the year [1952 1955]; 1st bowler to roll a perfect 300 game on TV)
1914 - Jeff Corey (actor: Color of Night, Conan the Destroyer, Sinatra, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, The Boston Strangler)
1916 - Noah Beery Jr. (actor: Walking Tall, Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, The Bastard, Fastest Gun Alive, Million Dollar Kid, Tugboat Annie)
1923 - Rhonda Fleming (Marilyn Louis) (actress: Stage Door, The Best of Broadway, Little Egypt, Inferno; operates cancer clinic for women)
1924 - Martha Hyer,
1925 - Mike Douglas, TV Host
1926 - Junior Samples (comedian: Hee Haw)
1926 - Marie-Claire Alain, French organist/composer
1928 - Eddie Fisher (singer: Oh! My Pa-Pa ,Anytime, Dungaree Doll, A Man Chases a Girl, Wedding Bells, Heart On the Street, Where You Live, Cindy Oh Cindy, Song of the Dreamer; TV host: Coke Time with Eddie Fisher; actor: All About Eve, Bundle of Joy, Butterfield 8; father of Carrie Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher)
1928 - Jimmy Dean (Seth Ward) (Grammy Award-winning singer: Big Bad John [1961], P.T. 109, I.O.U.; TV host: The Jimmy Dean Show; sausage mogul)
1929 - John Alldis composer/conductor
1933 - Jerry Falwell, US TV evangelist ("Moral Majority")
1933 - Rocky (Rocco) Colavito (baseball: Cleveland Indians: 4 home runs in a row [6/10/1959])
1938 - Diana Muldaur,
1940 - Bobby Hatfield (singer: group: The Righteous Brothers: You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin', Just Once in My Life, Unchained Melody, Ebb Tide [You're My] Soul and Inspiration, Rock and Roll Heaven)
1942 - Betsy Johnson,
1943 - Veronica 'Ronnie' Spector (Bennett) (singer: group: The Ronettes: Be My Baby, Baby I Love You; solo: Try Some Buy Some, Say Goodbye to Hollywood)
1944 - Ed Kirkpatrick (baseball)
1947 - George Buehler (football: Oakland Raiders guard: Super Bowl XI)
1947 - Ian Anderson (musician: flute singer: group: Jethro Tull: Aqualung, Thick as a Brick)
1948 - Allen Miller III (golfer)
1949 - Ralph Sampson (basketball)
1956 - Dianne Lee Fromholtz (tennis)
1959 - Rosanna Arquette (actress: Pulp Fiction, Silverado, Desperately Seeking Susan, New York Stories, The Executioner's Song, After Hours)
1960 - Antonio Banderas, Malaga Spain, actor (Phila, Evita, Mambo Kings)
Famous deaths
0794 - Fastrada, 3rd wife of French king Charlemagne, dies at 30
1730 - Sebastien de Brossard, composer, dies at 74
1806 - Johann Michael Haydn, composer, dies at 68
1930 - William H Taft, US president (1909-13), dies
1945 - Robert H Goddard, US, rocket pioneer, dies at 62
1987 - I W Able, CEO (United Steel Workers of America, 1965-77), dies at 87
1988 - Adela Rogers St John, journalist (Free Soul, Honeycomb), dies at 94
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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