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Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2008-10-13
Births
1267-08-10 - King James II of Aragon (d. 1327)
1296-08-10 - John I, Count of Luxemburg (d. 1346)
1360-08-10 - Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (d. 1417)
1397-08-10 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1439)
1489-08-10 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (d. 1553)
1520-08-10 - Madeleine de Valois, wife of James V of Scotland (d. 1537)
1560-08-10 - Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (d. 1629)
1602-08-10 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (d. 1675)
1645-08-10 - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (d. 1711)
1737-08-10 - Anton Losenko, Russian painter (d. 1773)
1821-08-10 - Jay Cooke, American financier (d. 1905)
1823-08-10 - Hugh Stowell Brown, Manx preacher (d.1886)
1839-08-10 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (d. 1896)
1845-08-10 - Abai Kunanbaev, Kazakh poet (d. 1904)
1856-08-10 - William Willett, English inventor of Daylight Saving Time (d. 1915)
1860-08-10 - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (d. 1936)
1865-08-10 - Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (d. 1936)
1869-08-10 - Laurence Binyon, British poet (d. 1943)
1872-08-10 - Bill Johnson, American musician (d. 1972)
1874-08-10 - Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President of the United States (d. 1964)
1877-08-10 - Frank Marshall, American chess player (d. 1944)
1878-08-10 - Alfred Döblin, German writer (d. 1957)
1880-08-10 - Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1964)
1884-08-10 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (d. 1935)
1890-08-10 - Angus L. MacDonald, Canadian politician (d. 1954)
1894-08-10 - Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (d. 1980)
1898-08-10 - Jack Haley, American actor (d. 1979)
1900-08-10 - Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete (d. 1994)
1902-08-10 - Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
1902-08-10 - Curt Siodmak, German-born author (d. 2000)
1902-08-10 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
1905-08-10 - Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (d. 1986)
1909-08-10 - Leo Fender, American luthier (d. 1991)
1912-08-10 - Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist (d. 2001)
1913-08-10 - Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1993)
1914-08-10 - Jeff Corey, American actor (d. 2002)
1919-08-10 - Sacha Vierny, French cinematographer (d. 2001)
1923-08-10 - Rhonda Fleming, American actress
1927-08-10 - Vernon Washington, American actor (d. 1988)
1928-08-10 - Jimmy Dean, American singer
1928-08-10 - Gus Mercurio, American-born Australian actor
1928-08-10 - Eddie Fisher, American singer
1933-08-10 - Doyle Brunson, American poker player
1933-08-10 - Rocky Colavito, American baseball player
1937-08-10 - Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician
1939-08-10 - Kate O'Mara, British actress
1940-08-10 - Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (d. 2003)
1943-08-10 - Ronnie Spector, American singer (Ronettes)
1943-08-10 - Louise Forestier, French Canadian singer, songwriter and actress
1943-08-10 - Jimmy Griffin, American guitarist (Bread) (d. 2005)
1945-08-10 - Harriet Miers, White House counsel
1947-08-10 - Ian Anderson, Scottish musician (Jethro Tull)
1947-08-10 - Anwar Ibrahim, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
1948-08-10 - Patti Austin, American singer
1950-08-10 - Rémy Girard, Québécois actor
1952-08-10 - Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor
1956-08-10 - Fred Ottman, American wrestler
1959-08-10 - Rosanna Arquette, American model
1960-08-10 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
1960-08-10 - Todd David Hess, First USAF Member to recieve Military Medical Merit.
1961-08-10 - Jon Farriss, Australian musician (INXS)
1963-08-10 - Andrew Sullivan, English-born journalist
1965-08-10 - Claudia Christian, American actress
1965-08-10 - Mike E. Smith, American jockey
1965-08-10 - John Starks, American basketball player
1966-08-10 - Hansi Kürsch, German singer
1967-08-10 - Riddick Bowe, American boxer
1967-08-10 - Mart Sander, Estonian singer and actor
1968-08-10 - Greg Hawgood, Canadian ice hockey player
1971-08-10 - Roy Keane, Irish footballer
1971-08-10 - Mario César Kindelán Mesa, Cuban boxer
1971-08-10 - Justin Theroux, American actor
1971-08-10 - Sal Fasano, American baseball player
1972-08-10 - Angie Harmon, American model
1972-08-10 - Christofer Johnsson, Swedish musician
1973-08-10 - Lisa Raymond, American tennis player
1973-08-10 - Javier Zanetti, Argentinian footballer
1974-08-10 - David Sommeil, French footballer
1974-08-10 - Luis Marín, Costa Rican footballer
1976-08-10 - Michael Depoli, American wrestler
1977-08-10 - Danny Griffin, Northern Irish footballer
1977-08-10 - Aaron Kamin, American musician (The Calling)
1978-08-10 - Chris Read, English cricketer
1979-08-10 - Yannick Schroeder, French racing driver
1980-08-10 - Kaysar Ridha, Iraqi-American reality TV contestant
1981-08-10 - Natsumi Abe, Japanese singer
1982-08-10 - Devon Aoki, American supermodel and actress
1983-08-10 - Alexander Perezhogin, Russian ice hockey player
1983-08-10 - Mathieu Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
Bizarre
2006-08-10 - Lazy Day
2006-08-10 - National Smores Day
2007-08-10 - Lazy Day
2007-08-10 - National Smores Day
Deaths
1535-08-10 - Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (poisoned) (b. 1509)
1633-08-10 - Anthony Munday, English writer (b. 1553)
1637-08-10 - Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (b. 1582)
1653-08-10 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1598)
1655-08-10 - Alfonso de la Cueva, marqués de Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat (b. 1572)
1723-08-10 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1656)
1759-08-10 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain (b. 1713)
1784-08-10 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (b. 1713)
1802-08-10 - Franz Aepinus, German scientist (b. 1724)
1806-08-10 - Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737)
1839-08-10 - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (b. 1758)
1862-08-10 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
1875-08-10 - Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808)
1896-08-10 - Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (b. 1848)
1915-08-10 - Henry Moseley, English physicist (b. 1887)
1920-08-10 - Ádám Politzer, Austrian physician (b. 1835)
1928-08-10 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (b. 1897)
1929-08-10 - Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)
1945-08-10 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882)
1948-08-10 - Montague Summers, English writer (b. 1880)
1958-08-10 - Frank Demaree, baseball player (b. 1910)
1963-08-10 - Estes Kefauver, American politician, United States Congressman & Senator from Tennessee (b. 1903)
1963-08-10 - Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1877)
1969-08-10 - Leno LaBianca, American businessman (murdered) (b. 1925)
1969-08-10 - Rosemary LaBianca, American housewife (murdered) (b. 1930)
1976-08-10 - Bert Oldfield, Australian test cricketer (b. 1894)
1979-08-10 - Walter Gerlach, German physicist (b. 1889)
1980-08-10 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
1993-08-10 - Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (Mayhem) (b. 1968)
1997-08-10 - Conlon Nancarrow, American composer (b. 1912)
2002-08-10 - Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (b. 1962)
2002-08-10 - Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1926)
2003-08-10 - Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer
2005-08-10 - Lee Seung Seop, Korean gamer
2057-08-10 - Justin II, Byzantine Emperor
2063-08-10 - Pope Honorius I
1989-08-10 - Lambert, Holy Roman Emperor
Declared
2007-08-10 - Independence Day in Ecuador -- Movement began in Quito in 1809. Independence not achieved till May 1822.
Events
1995-08-10 - Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain agreement for his testimony.
2001-08-10 - The Hudson River Way is opened to traffic.
2003-08-10 - The highest temperature ever is recorded in the UK, 38.5°C (101.3°F), occurs in Kent [1]. It is the first time the UK has recorded a temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
2003-08-10 - Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.
2005-08-10 - Lee Seung Seop dies from exhaustion in South Korea after playing the computer game StarCraft continuously for 49 hours.
2006-08-10 - Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States.
1316-08-10 - Second Battle of Athenry
1519-08-10 - Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
1628-08-10 - Swedish warship Regalskeppet Vasa sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes on her maiden voyage.
1680-08-10 - Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
1776-08-10 - American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
1792-08-10 - French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
1809-08-10 - Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain.
1821-08-10 - Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
1846-08-10 - The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the U.S. Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist James Smithson.
1856-08-10 - In Last Island, Louisiana, a hurricane kills about 400 people.
1861-08-10 - American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek - The war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
1893-08-10 - At Augsburg, Rudolf Diesel's prime model runs on its own power for the first time. Because of this, August 10 is the International Biodiesel Day.
1905-08-10 - Russian and Japanese peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth.
1913-08-10 - Second Balkan War ends: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
1920-08-10 - World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres which divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
1932-08-10 - A 5.1-kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
1934-08-10 - US: Anarchist conference at Stelton, N.J., August 10-11
1944-08-10 - World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
1948-08-10 - Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
1949-08-10 - US President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the National Military Establishment with the United States Department of Defense.
1954-08-10 - At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
1969-08-10 - A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
1971-08-10 - Harmon Killebrew becomes the 10th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota.
1971-08-10 - The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
1977-08-10 - In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over a year's period.
1981-08-10 - The head of John Walsh's son Adam is found in Hollywood, Florida. This event will later prompt the U.S. Congress to pass the Missing Children's Act, giving the Federal Bureau of Investigation greater authority to track the disappearance of children. It al
1988-08-10 - Japanese American Internment: US President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were either interned or relocated by in the United States during World War II.
1990-08-10 - The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
1976-08-10 - Carloman I and Charlemagne are incoronated Kings of France.
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2008-10-13
second day in the Month of Vendmiaire (twenty)
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Saint Teresa of Avila (R.C. Saints)
White Cane Safety Day (United States)
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2008-10-16
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2008-10-17
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2008-10-18
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2008-10-19
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Independence Day of State of Piau (Brazil)
Mother Teresa Day (Albania)
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ninth day in the Month of Vendmiaire (twenty)
the feast day of martyr Andrew of Crete (Christianity)
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