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August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 143 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 654 – ...
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London. 1821 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state. 1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the U.S. Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist James Smithson. 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of ...
Insurrection of 10 August 1792. / 48.86222°N 2.33250°E / 48.86222; 2.33250. The insurrection of 10 August 1792 was a defining event of the French Revolution, when armed revolutionaries in Paris, increasingly in conflict with the French monarchy, stormed the Tuileries Palace. The conflict led France to abolish the monarchy and ...
The Declaration of Independence, the most consequential and perhaps most heroic challenge to authority in human annals, reached the ear of King George III in London on this day in history, August ...
Disasters The Niger River bursts its banks forcing 5,000 people to lose their homes and crops. (BBC) A 7.6 magnitude earthquake and small tsunami hits the Pacific Ocean nation of Vanuatu. (AFP via Yahoo News Australia), (INO) Rescuers in China's Gansu province continue to search for 1,100 missing people in a recent landslide, as the death toll rises to 702. (BBC) (China Daily) A de Havilland ...
1821 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.; 1933 – Doyle Brunson (pictured), considered one of the most influential forces in poker and the author of the seminal guides to the sport Super/System, is born.
The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 ( Pub. L. 100–383, title I, August 10, 1988, 102 Stat. 904, 50a U.S.C. § 1989b et seq.) is a United States federal law that granted reparations to Japanese Americans who had been wrongly interned by the United States government during World War II and to "discourage the occurrence of similar injustices and ...
Born: Marine Le Pen, French presidential candidate and runner-up in 2017 and leader of the right-wing Front national; in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Colin McRae, Scottish rally auto racer and 1995 world champion; in Lanark (killed in helicopter crash, 2007) Terri Clark, Canadian country music artist; in Montreal.