Today is Sunday, Aug. 10, the 222nd day of 2014. There are 143 days left in the year. Todays Highlight in History: ▪On Aug. 10, 1944, during World War II, American forces overcame remaining Japanese resistance on Guam. On this date: ▪In 1792, during the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attacked the Tuileries Palace, where King Louis XVI resided. (The king was later arrested, put on trial for treason and executed.) ▪In 1821, Missouri became the 24th state. ▪In 1846, President James K. Polk signed a measure establishing the Smithsonian Institution. ▪In 1874, Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, was born in West Branch, Iowa. ▪In 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello. ▪In 1949, the National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense. ▪In 1969, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Mansons cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people had been slain. ▪In 1977, postal employee David Berkowitz was arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being Son of Sam, the gunman responsible for six slayings and seven woundings. (Berkowitz is serving six consecutive 25-years-to-life sentences.) ▪In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a measure providing $20,000 payments to still-living Japanese-Americans whod been interned by their government during World War II. ▪In 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 20:49:36 +0000
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