August 10th
Today in America's Present Past
1622 | John Mason and Ferdinando Gorges received a land patent of the Province of Maine.
1645 | Missionary Eusebio Kino was born.
1680 | Indian Wars: Pueblo Revolt begins.
1753 | Founding Father Edmund Randolph was born.
1776 | War of Independence: News of the Declaration of Independence reaches London and King George III.
1813 | Composer William Henry Fry was born.
1817 | Entrepreneur Francis Cabot Lowell died.
1821 | Statehood: Missouri granted statehood.
1821 | Entrepreneur Jay Cooke was born.
1833 | Chicago, Illinois, incorporated as a village of about 200.
1835 | Civil Rights: A mob of men and oxen pulled an integrated school to a swamp out of Canaan, New Hampshire.
1846 | Congress: Established the Smithsonian Institution.
1856 | Entrepreneur Edward Doheny was born.
1861 | Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri.
1862 | Civil War: Battle of Nueces River, Texas.
1862 | Civil War: Nueces massacre.
1868 | Banker Paul Warburg was born.
1874 | POTUS: President Herbert Hoover was born.
1877 | Chess player Frank Marshall was born.
1877 | Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole, Montana.
1880 | Entrepreneur Robert L. Thornton was born.
1889 | Entrepreneur Charles Darrow was born.
1900 | Entrepreneur and inventor Thomas Elkins died.
1909 | Lawyer and politician George Crockett Jr. was born.
1909 | Guitarist Leo Fender was born.
1912 | Actor Richard Reeves was born.
1927 | Actor Vernon Washington was born.
1932 | Caine actor Rin Tin Tin died.
1942 | Entrepreneur Henry J. Kaiser opens the Kaiser Richmond Field Hospital.
1944 | WWII: U.S. liberates Guam.
1945 | Rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard died.
1949 | The U.S. National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense.
1960 | Film: “Psycho” debuted.
1962 | Author Suzanne Collins was born.
1968 | Musician Michael Bivins was born.
1993 | SCOTUS: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in.
2008 | Musician Issac Hayes died.
2014 | Civil Rights: Ferguson, Missouri, riots start.
2019 | Child abuser Jeffrey Epstein was found dead of an apparent suicide in his jail cell in New York, while awaiting trial.