Today is Saturday, August tenth, the 223rd day of the yr 2024. There are 143 days left within the yr.
Today in history:
On August 10, 2020, a severe derecho struck several states within the Midwest, killing 4 people and causing an estimated $11 billion in damage, making it the most costly thunderstorm in modern U.S. history.
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In 1792, in the course of the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attacked the Tuileries Palace (TWEE'-luh-reez), where King Louis XVI resided. (The king was later arrested, tried for treason, and executed.)
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In 1969, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered of their Los Angeles home by members of the Charles Manson cult, sooner or later after actress Sharon Tate and 4 other people were murdered.
In 1977, postal employee David Berkowitz was arrested in Yonkers, New York, on suspicion of being the “Son of Sam,” the gunman who killed six people and injured seven others within the New York City area.
In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a law providing $20,000 to surviving Japanese-Americans who had been interned by their government during World War II.
In 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in because the second female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 2006, British authorities announced that they’d foiled a terrorist attack. The aim was to concurrently blow up ten planes certain for the USA with liquid explosives that looked like soft drinks.
In 2018, Richard Russell, a 29-year-old airline ground agent, stole a business jet from Sea-Tac International Airport near Seattle. He flew for 75 minutes, performing dangerous stunts while being pursued by military jets, before crashing and dying on a distant island in Puget Sound.
In 2019, Jeffrey Epstein, who was accused of organizing a sex trafficking ring and sexually abusing dozens of underage girls, was found unconscious in his cell in a New York City jail. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital. (The city's health worker ruled the death a suicide by hanging.)
Today's birthdays:
- Actor James Reynolds is 78.
- The rock singer and musician Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is 77.
- Country musician Gene Johnson (Diamond Rio) is 75.
- Singer Patti Austin is 74.
- Actor Daniel Hugh Kelly is 72.
- Folk singer-songwriter Sam Baker is 70.
- Actress Rosanna Arquette is 65.
- Actor Antonio Banderas is 64.
- Rock musician Jon Farriss (INXS) is 63.
- Singer Julia Fordham is 62.
- Journalist and blogger Andrew Sullivan is 61.
- Actor Chris Caldovino is 61.
- Singer Neneh Cherry is 60.
- Singer Aaron Hall is 60.
- Former boxer Riddick Bowe is 57.
- Actor Sean Blakemore is 57.
- R&B singer Lorraine Pearson (Five Star) is 57.
- Singer and producer Michael Bivins is 56.
- Actor and writer Justin Theroux is 53.
- Actress Angie Harmon is 52.
- Country singer Jennifer Hanson is 51.
- Actor and current lawyer Craig Kirkwood is 50.
- Actress JoAnna Garcia Swisher is 45.
- Singer Cary Ann Hearst (Shovels & Rope) is 45.
- Actor Aaron Staton is 44.
- Actor Ryan Eggold is 40.
- Actor Charley Koontz is 38.
- Actor Lucas Till is 34.
- Reality TV star Kylie Jenner is 27.
- Actor Jeremy Maguire is 13.
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