Wikipedia: August 10

August 10
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August 10 is the 2nd annual pot smoking day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 145 days remaining.

Events

612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
955 - Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
1492 - Alexander VI is elected Pope.
1519 - Ferdinand Magellan's 5 ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
1792 - French Revolution: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
1809 - Ecuador declares independence from Spain.
1821 - Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
1846 - The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist Joseph Smithson.
1856 - In Louisiana, a hurricane kills about 400 people.
1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek - The war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Deimos.
1893 - At Augsburg, Rudolf Diesel's prime model ran on its own power for the first time. Because of this, August 10 is the International Biodiesel Day.
1913 - Second Balkan War ends: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
1920 - World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives signed the Treaty of Sevres which divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
1944 - World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
1945 - World War II: Japan agrees to the Potsdam Conference terms of unconditional surrender, ending the war.
1948 - Candid Camera makes its television after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
1949 - US President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Bill, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the National Military Establishment with the United States Department of Defense.
1954 - At Messena, New York, the ground breaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
1969 - A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
1977 - In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over a year's period.
1981 - The head of John Walsh's son Adam is found in Hollywood, Florida. This event will later prompt the United States Congress to pass the Missing Children's Act, giving the Federal Bureau of Investigation greater authority to track the disappearance of children. It also makes Walsh a national spokesman against crime and eventually leads to the establishment of America's Most Wanted.
1988 - Japanese American Internment: US President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were either interned or relocated by in the United States during World War II.
1990 - The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain agreement for his testimony.

Births

1397 - Albert II of Habsburg, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
1821 - Jay Cooke, financier (+ 1905)
1874 - Herbert Hoover, President of the United States (+ 1964)
1898 - Jack Haley, actor (+ 1979)
1900 - Wolfgang Pauli, physicist (+ 1958)
1902 - Norma Shearer, actress (+ 1983)
1902 - Curt Siodmak, science fiction author (+ 2000)
1912 - Jorge Amado, novelist
1923 - Rhonda Fleming, actress
1928 - Jimmy Dean, country and western singer
1940 - Bobby Hatfield, singer, the Righteous Brothers
1943 - Ronnie Spector, singer
1947 - Ian Anderson, musician (Jethro Tull)
1960 - Antonio Banderas, actor
1967 - Riddick Bowe, world champion boxer
1976 - Dave Whiting, Cynthia's husband

Deaths

612 BC - Sinsharishkun, Assyrian king
258 - Saint Lawrence, martyr
1653 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral
1862 - Shusaku Honinbo, Go player
1945 - Robert Goddard, rocket scientist
1963 - Estes Kefauver, United States Senator from Tennessee
1980 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan
1997 - Conlon Nancarrow, composer
2002 - Kristen Nygaard, computer scientist

Holidays and observances

Roman Empire - Festival in honor of Ops
Ancient Latvia - Labrenca Diena held

See Also:

August 9 - August 11 - July 10 - September 10 -- listing of all days

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