August 10
1519 Magellan and 5 ships set sail from Seville starting circumnavigation (he died along the way)
1675 Foundation stone for Royal Greenwich Observatory laid
1776 Declaration of Independence reaches London
1792 Storming of the Tuilleries. Louis XVI taken prisoner
1793 Musee de Louvre opened
1821 Missouri admitted as the 24th state
1846 Smithsonian chartered
1905 Russo-Japanese War peace talks start in Portsmouth, NH
1948 Candid Camera debuts on television (the year before, it was called Candid Microphone. Sounds really boring)
1961 Agent Orange used for first time in Vietnam
1971 SABR founded at Cooperstown, NY
1977 David Berkowitz arrested
1981 Adam Walsh's head found
Births
1814 Henri Nestle
1874 Herbert Hoover (our last business man president. Those guys seem to work out so well)
1889 Charles Darrow. Inventor of Monopoly
1920 Red Holzman
1928 Jimmy Dean
1928 Eddie FIsher
1933 Rocky Colavito
1943 Ronnie Spector
1960 Antonio Banderas
1965 John Starks
1967 Gus Johnson
1972 Angie Harmon
1997 Kylie Jenner
Deaths
1932 Rin Tin Tin
2001 Lou Boudreau