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Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of August 10:

 1810 Camilio Benso di Cavour Italy, PM
1865 Alexander Glazunov St Petersburg Russia, composer (Chopiniana)
1869 Lawrence Binyon Vienna Austria, writer (Symbolic Wounds)
1874 Herbert Clark Hoover West Branch, Iowa, (R) 31st Pres (1929-1933)
1874 James (Tod) Sloan jockey, created monkey crouch riding style
1889 Irene Steer England, 4 X 100m relay swimmers (Olympic-gold-1912)
1893 Douglas Stuart Moore Cutchogue NY, composer (Good Night Harvard)
1893 Viscount Dunrossil Scotland, Gov Gen of Australia (1959-61)
1899 Jack Haley Boston Mass, actor (Ford Star Revue)
19-- Daniel Hugh-Kelly Hoboken NJ, actor (Chicago Story, Hardcastle)
19-- James Reynolds Oskaloosa, Ks, actor (Abe Carver-Days of our Lives)
1900 Arthur Porritt NZ, 100m sprinter (Olympic-bronze-1924)
1900 Norma Shearer Canada, actress (Divorcee, Idiot's Delight)
1909 Mohammed V King of Morocco (1953, 1955-61)
1910 Angus Campbell US, psychologist (Elections & Political Order)
1912 Richard Reeves NYC, actor (Murph-Date With an Angel)
1913 Noah Beery Jr NYC, actor (Rockford Files, Quest, Doc Elliot)
1913 Steven Nagy bowler, 1st to bowl 300 on TV (1954)
1914 Jeff Corey NYC, actor (Getting Straight, Superman & Mole Men)
1920 Red Holzman NBA coach (NY Knickerbockers)
1923 Rhonda Fleming Hollywood Calif, actress (Spellbound)
1924 Martha Hyer actress (Day of the Wolves, Night of the Grizzly)
1928 Eddie Fisher Phila Pa, singer (Oh My Papa, Lady of Spain)
1928 Jimmy Dean Tx, actor/singer (Jimmy Dean Show, Diamonds are Forever)
1933 Bill Nieder shot putter, (Olympic-gold-1960)
1933 Rocky Colavito Bronx, baseball player (Hit 4 HRs in a game)
1939 Kate O'Mara Leicaster England, actress (Caress Morell-Dynasty)
1940 Bobby Hatfield Wisc, rocker (Righteous Bros-Unchained Melody)
1941 Anita Lonsbrough England, 200m backstroke swimmer (Oly-gold-1960)
1942 Betsy Johnson fashion designer (1971 Winnie Award)
1943 Ronnie Spector [Veronica Bennett], NYC, singer (Be My Baby)
1947 Ian Anderson Scotland, rocker (Jethro Tull-Bungle in the Jungle)
1948 Pal Gerevich Hungary, fencer (Olympic-bronze-1972, 80)
1948 Patti Austin singer (The Real Me)
1952 Ashley Putnam NYC, soprano (NY City Opera 1978)
1959 Mark Price bass/vocals (All About Eve, Tin Huey-Contents Dislodged)
1959 Rosanna Arquette NYC, actress (Desperately Seeking Susan)
1961 Beatrice Alda daughter of Alan Alda, actress (Lisa-Four Seasons)
1961 John Farriss rocker (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt)
1962 Dan Donovan rocker (Bad)

Deaths which occurred on August 10:

1867 Ira Frederick Aldridge US Negro tragedian, dies (birth date unkn)
1945 Robert Goddard father of American rocketry, dies
1962 Ted Husing sportscaster (Monday Night Fights), dies at 60
1963 Estes Kefauver (D-Sen-Tn), dies at 60
1974 Ilona Massey actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show), dies at 64
1974 Pedro Regas actor (Pat Paulsen's « Comedy Hour), dies at 92
1976 Ray "Crash" Corrigan cowboy (Crash Corrigan's Ranch), dies at 74
1977 Vince Barnett actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle), dies at 75
1979 Dick Foran actor (OK Crackerby), dies at 69
1985 Kenny Backer comedian, dies of a heart attack at 72
1987 Clara Peller actress (Where's the Beef), dies at 86
1988 Adela Rogers St John journalist (Free Soul, Honeycomb), dies at 94
1988 Arias Arnulfo 3 time president of Panama, dies at 86

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
 1965    MAILHES          LAWRENCE SCOTT    HOT SPRINGS           AR       
 1969    MICKELSEN        WILLIAM E. JR.    MINNEAPOLIS           MN       
 1970    CROWLEY          JOHN E.           WILLIAMSON            NY        REMAINS ID'D 04/22/00
 1971    BATES            PAUL J. JR.       MESA                  AZ       
 1971    DOLAN            THOMAS A.         BALTIMORE             MD       
 1972    SANSONE          JAMES J.          NORWOOD               MA

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On this day...

654 St Eugene I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1519 Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate the Earth
1680 In N Mex, Pop‚ leads rebellion of Pueblo Indians against Spaniads
1743 Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated
1790 Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage
1792 Mobs in Paris attack the palace of Louis XVI
1809 Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1821 Missouri admitted as 24th US state
1827 Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
1831 Former slave Nat Turner led violent insurrection against slavery
1833 Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
1835 Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH
1846 Congress charters the "nation's attic," the Smithsonian Institution
1856 Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana
1861 Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri
1866 Transatlantic cable laid - Former Pres Buchanan communicates over it to Queen Victoria
1885 Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt)
1887 Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)
1888 NY Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game win streak record
1893 Chinese deported from SF under Exclusion Act
1900 1st Davis Cup Tennis Tournament (Mass) US beats England
1901 Chic White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners
1907 Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Peking to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally
1911 Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords
1913 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses
1919 Ukranian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukrane
1921 FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello
1938 119ø F (48ø C), Pendleton, Oregon (state record)
1944 Boston Brave Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to beat Reds 2-0
1944 Race riots in Athens Alabama
1945 Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided the status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged
1948 ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY)
1948 Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC
1949 Natl Military Establishment renamed Dept of Defense
1954 Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins
1960 Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
1961 England applies for membership in the European Common Market
1965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km
1966 1st lunar orbiter launched by US
1966 Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again
1973 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station
1975 David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon
1977 Phillies & Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM
1977 Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers, NY, accused of being "Son of Sam" the 44 caliber killer
1979 Wings release "Getting Closer" & "Baby's Request"
1980 Allen, the most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Tx
1980 Jack Nicklaus wins PGA Championship for 5th time
1981 Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business
1981 Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's NL record 3,630 hits
1981 The Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes
1984 Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run
1985 Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle songs) for $47« million
1985 Uno Lindstron of Sweden, juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles
1986 Billy Martin day, Yanks retire #1
1987 Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successful
1988 UN estimates Asia's population hit 3 billion
1990 US's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
1991 NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at 53




Holidays

Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Ecuador : Independence Day (1809)
Missouri : Admission Day (1821)
Italy : Palio Del Golfo (2nd Sunday) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Zambia : Youth Day - - - - - ( Monday )

Religious Observances

Ang, RC, Luth : Feast of St Laurence, deacon/martyr at Rome

Religious History

1742 English revivalist George Whitefield observed in a letter: 'It is a very uncommon thing to be rooted and grounded in the love of Jesus. I find persons may have the idea, but are far from having the real substance.'
1760 Philip Embury (1728-1773) arrived in New York the first Methodist clergyman to come over from England.in America.
1841 Birth of Mary A. Lathbury, American Sunday School leader and poet. Daughter of a Methodist preacher, two of Lathbury's poems later became popular hymns: "Break Thou the Bread of Life" and "Day is Dying in the West."
1855 Birth of Frederick J. Foakes-Jackson, Anglican theologian. His numerous publications centered around church history. His best-remembered work is "The Beginnings of Christianity, Part I: The Acts of the Apostles" (5 volumes, 1919-33).
1948 English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)

Thought for the day :

" Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall. "
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