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794Aug 10Fastrada (30), 3rd wife of French king Charlemagne, died.
843Aug 10Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German and Charles the Bare divided France.
955Aug 10Otto organized his nobles and defeated the invading Magyars at the Battle of Lechfeld in Germany.
1461Aug 10Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma, urged an Inquisition in Spain.
1497Aug 10John Cabot told King Henry VII of his trip to “Asia.”
1500Aug 10Diego Diaz discovered Madagascar
1539Aug 10King Francis of France declared that all official documents were to be written in French, not Latin.
1557Aug 10Spanish and English troops in alliance defeated the French at the Battle of St. Quentin (San Quintino). French troops were defeated by Emanuele Filiberto’s Spanish army at St. Quentin, France. In 1559 Filiberto made Turin capital of his Savoy state.
1627Aug 10Cardinal Richelieu began a siege of La Rochelle.
1675Aug 10King Charles II laid the foundation stone of Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
1730Aug 10Sebastien de Brossard (74), French composer, died. He authored the “Dictionnaire de musique” (Paris, 1703).
1779Aug 10Louis XVI of France freed the last remaining serfs on royal land.
1787Aug 10Mozart completed his “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.”
1806Aug 10Johann Michael Haydn (68), composer, died.
1809Aug 10Ecuador struck its first blow for independence from Spain.
1810Aug 10Camillo di Cavour, helped bring about the unification of Italy under the House of Saxony.
1821Aug 10Missouri became the 24th state.
1827Aug 10There were race riots in Cincinnati and some 1,000 blacks left for Canada.
1829Aug 16The original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston aboard the ship Sachem to be exhibited to the Western world.
1831Aug 10William Driver of Salem, Massachusetts, was the first to use the term “Old Glory” in connection with the American flag, when he gave that name to a large flag aboard his ship, the Charles Daggett.
1835Aug 10Mob of whites and oxen pulled a black school to a swamp outside of Canaan, NH.
1846Aug 10President James Polk signed a measure establishing the Smithsonian Institution. The US Congress chartered the Smithsonian Institution, named after English scientist James Smithson (1765-1836), whose bequest of $500,000 made it possible. The Smithsonian Institute was born and Joseph Henry became its first secretary.
1864Aug 10Confederate Commander John Bell Hood sent his cavalry north of Atlanta to cut off Union General William Sherman’s supply lines.
1869Aug 10O.B. Brown patented a moving picture projector.
1877Aug 10Col. John Gibbon slaughtered Nez-Perce Indians at Big Hole River.
1885Aug 10Leo Daft opened America’s first commercially operated electric streetcar, in Baltimore.
1889Aug 10Dan Rylands patented a screw cap.
1893Aug 10Chinese were deported from SF under the 1892 Exclusion Act.
1895Aug 10The 1st Queen’s Hall Promenade Concert featured Wagner’s “Rienzi.”
1904Aug 10Angelo G. Roncalli, later Pope John XXIII, became a priest.
1904Aug 10Dutch newspaper Volk fired gay journalist Jacob de Cock.
1912Aug 10Leonard Woolf (1880-1969), English man of letters, married writer Virginia Duckworth (b.1882). Virginia Woolf committed suicide in 1941.
1914Aug 10At Luik, German 12″/16.5″ guns reached Belgian boundary.
1919Aug 10Ukrainian National Army massacred 25 Jews in Podolia, Ukraine.
1920Aug 10Allies recognized Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania.
1923Aug 10Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (b.1863), Spanish impressionist painter, died in Cercedilla. His work included “A View of Malaga.”
1941Aug 10Great Britain and the Soviet Union promised aid to Turkey if it was attacked by the Axis.
1943Aug 10Hitler watched the lynching of allied pilots.
1944Aug 10Race riots took place in Athens, Alabama.
1948Aug 10Allen Funt’s “Candid Microphone,” later titled “Candid Camera,” made its television debut on ABC-TV.
1950Aug 10President Harry S. Truman called the National Guard to active duty to fight in the Korean War.
1960Aug 10The first successful US Corona spy satellite mission was launched after 12 previous failures [see 1957]. The flight photographed 1.6 million square miles of the Soviet Union.
1961Aug 10Denmark formally applied for membership in the European Community.
1968Aug 10In West Virginia 35 people were killed in the crash of a Piedmont Airlines Fairchild FH-227 at Kanawha County Airport.
1969Aug 10Leno 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 found slain.
1972Aug 10An Earth-grazing meteoroid grazed the atmosphere above Canada. It entered the Earth’s atmosphere in daylight over Utah.
1975Aug 10Television personality David Frost announced he had purchased the exclusive rights to interview former President Nixon.
1979Aug 10Michael Jackson (21) launched his solo career with “Off the Wall.”
1981Aug 10Coca-Cola Bottling Co agreed to pump $34 million into black businesses.
1986Aug 10“Me and My Girl” opened at Marquis Theater in NYC for 1420 performances.
1987Aug 10President Reagan said he would nominate C. William Verity Jr., a retired steel company executive, to replace the late Malcolm Baldrige as commerce secretary.
1988Aug 10Adela Rogers St. John (b.1894), journalist (Free Soul, Honeycomb), died.
1990Aug 10Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry was convicted of a single misdemeanor drug charge and acquitted on another; the judge declared a mistrial on 12 other counts.
1991Aug 10The 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.
1992Aug 10President Bush met at his Kennebunkport, Maine, vacation home with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Afterward, Bush announced that Mideast peace talks would resume in two weeks in Washington, D.C.
1993Aug 10President Clinton signed a massive deficit-reduction bill into law.
1995Aug 10Norma McCorvey, “Jane Roe” of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
1996Aug 10US Sen. Bob Dole completed the Republican ticket by announcing former housing secretary Jack Kemp as his running mate.
1997Aug 10In Nashville a riot erupted when a police officer killed a black murder suspect.
1998Aug 10The 308,000 sq.-foot Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center opened in Mashantucket, Conn.
1999Aug 10In Dagestan the Interior Ministry said 44 militants were killed and 80 wounded in fighting with Russian forces.
2000Aug 10A US Navy helicopter crashed in the Gulf of Mexico. 2 crew members were rescued, 2 were killed and 2 were missing.
2001Aug 10Space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral with supplies and a fresh crew for the Int’l. Space Station.
2002Aug 10Sammy Sosa hit three 3-run homers in Chicago’s 15-1 rout of Colorado. Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants broke Willie McCovey’s 1969 record for intentional walks in a season with his 46th of the year.
2003Aug 10Atlanta Braves shortstop Rafael Furcal turned the 12th unassisted triple play in major league history against the St. Louis Cardinals. St. Louis beat Atlanta 3-2.
2004Aug 10Pres. Bush nominated Porter J. Goss, Florida Republican congressman, to head the CIA. Goss spent most of his career as a clandestine operative in Latin America.
2005Aug 10Pres. Bush visited a Caterpillar plant in Illinois where he signed a $286.4 billion highway bill. It was the most expensive US public works program to date.
2006Aug 10Wal-Mart Stores said it will work with Chinese government officials to establish labor unions in all its outlets in China.
2007Aug 10The United States launched an expedition toward the Arctic to map the sea floor off Alaska.
2008Aug 10Shelley Malil (43), comic film and TV actor, stabbed his girlfriend more than 20 times in San Diego County. On Aug 13 he was charged with attempted murder.
2009Aug 10In Oakland, Ca., Hassani Campbell (5) was reported missing by his foster parents Louis Ross (38) and Jennifer Campbell (33). The couple were arrested on Aug 28 on suspicion of killing the boy, who suffered from cerebral palsy.
2010Aug 10President Barack Obama signed a $26 billion bill would protect some 300,000 teachers, police and others from election-year layoffs.
2011Aug 10The Dow Jones industrial average fell 519 points to close at 10,719.94. it has lost over 2,000 points in less than three weeks.
2012Aug 10Columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria apologized for lifting several paragraphs by another writer for use in his column in Time magazine. His column has been suspended for a month.
2013Aug 10US FBI agents killed James Lee DiMaggio (40) in the Idaho wilderness. He was suspected of killing a California woman Christina Anderson (44) and her young son a week earlier before fleeing with her daughter, Hannah Anderson (16).
2014Aug 10Missouri police arrested 32 people after rioting and looting erupted in Ferguson late today and spread to neighboring towns in protests that turned violent over the killing of a black teenager by a police officer.

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