August 10 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for August 10
In the headlines today:

2002	Mikey Houser, singer-guitarist for the rock band Widespread Panic, dies of pancreatic cancer at age 40.
1993	Ruth Bader Ginsburg begins her term as the second woman US Supreme Court justice.
1977	Postal worker David Berkowitz, a suspect in the 'Son of Sam' murders, is arrested in Yonkers, NY.
1969	Charles Manson cult members kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca at their Los Angeles home.
1944	US forces liberate the island of Guam from Japanese occupation, during WWII.
1921	Future US president Franklin D. Roosevelt is stricken with polio while vacationing on the island of Campobello.
1897	Chemist Felix Hoffmann of Bayer invents the first stable form of acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
1896	German glider pioneer Otto Lilienthal dies in Berlin at age 48.
1846	The US Congress establishes the Smithsonian Institution after receiving a $500,000 gift from Englishman James Smithson.
1821	Missouri becomes the 24th state.