On This Day:
Sunday August 10, 2014 This is the 222nd day of the year, with 143 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: coin collecting Coin collecting (numismatics) is one of the oldest hobbies in the world - from archaeological evidence, at least from the Roman era and probably for as long as they have existed (c 650 BC).
Holidays Ecuador: National Day / Independence Day.
Feast day of St. Lawrence of Rome.
Events 1821 - Missouri became the 24th state, and the first located entirely west of the Mississippi River.
1833 - The city of Chicago was incorporated as a village.
1846 - Congress chartered the Smithsonian Institution, named after English scientist James Smithson, whose bequest had made it possible.
1921 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello.
1948 - "Candid Camera" premiered on TV.
1949 - The National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense.
1969 - Leno LaBianca and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson's cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people were slain.
1993 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female justice on the Supreme Court.
Births 1874 - Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President of the United States of America (1929-1933).
1928 - Jimmy Dean (Seth Ward), American Grammy Award-winning singer; sausage maker.
1928 - Eddie Fisher, American singer.
Deaths 1896 - Otto Lilienthal, German aeronautical pioneer.
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