miércoles, 10 de agosto de 2011

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ON THIS DAY

On This Day: August 10

On Aug. 10, 1977, David Berkowitz, the suspect in the "Son of Sam" murders, was arrested.
On Aug. 10, 1874, Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States, was born. Following his death on Oct. 20, 1964, his obituary appeared in The Times.

On This Date

1821Missouri became the 24th state.
1846Congress chartered the Smithsonian Institution, named after English scientist James Smithson, whose bequest of $500,000 made it possible.
1874Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, was born in West Branch, Iowa.
1885America's first commercially operated electric streetcar began operation in Baltimore.
1921Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello.
1944American forces overcame Japanese resistance on Guam during World War II.
1949The National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense.
1969Leno 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.
1988President Ronald Reagan signed a measure providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans interred by the U.S. government during World War II.
1993Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female Supreme Court justice.
2006British authorities announced they had thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up 10 aircraft heading to the United States.
2008American swimmer Michael Phelps won the first of a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics by smashing his own world record in the 400-meter individual medley.

Current Birthdays

Antonio Banderas, Actor
Actor Antonio Banderas turns 51 years old today.
AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau
JoAnna Garcia, Actress
Actress JoAnna Garcia turns 32 years old today.
AP Photo/Peter Kramer
1923Rhonda Fleming, Actress, turns 88
1943Ronnie Spector, Singer (The Ronettes), turns 68
1947Ian Anderson, Rock singer, musician (Jethro Tull), turns 64
1959Rosanna Arquette, Actress, turns 52
1962Julia Fordham, Rock singer, turns 49
1964Neneh Cherry, R&B singer, turns 47
1972Angie Harmon, Actress, turns 39

Historic Birthdays

89Eugenius Bulgaris 8/10/1716 - 6/10/1806
Greek Orthodox theologian and scholar
83Jay Cooke 8/10/1821 - 2/18/1905
American financier
67Charles Keene 8/10/1823 - 1/4/1891
English artist and illustrator for Punch magazine
83Joseph McKenna 8/10/1843 - 11/21/1926
American Supreme Court justice (1898-1925)
70Aleksandr Glazunov 8/10/1865 - 3/21/1936
Russian symphonic composer
75Douglas Stuart Moore8//1893 - 7/25/1969
American composer of folk operas
52Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca 8/10/1894 - 8/16/1946
Latvian-born American labor leader
55Eugene Dennis 8/10/1905 - 1/31/1961
American Communist Party leader and labor organizer
81Leo Fender 8/10/1909 - 3/21/1991
American inventor and manufacturer of musical instruments

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