The Dedication of Mount Rushmore: Coolidge’s Fancy Boots and Black Hills Diplomacy
President Calvin Coolidge (wearing fancy cowboy boots) speaking at the Dedication of Mount Rushmore – August 10, 1927.Coolidge’s formal address on August 10th officially launched the carving of Gutzon Borglum’s ...
Noah Beery Jr.: The Sixty-Six Year Anchor of Hollywood’s Character Class
Born August 10, 1913, Noah Beery Jr. followed both his father, Noah Beery Sr., and uncle, Wallace Beery, into show business. From silent films to Hollywood classics (Of Mice and ...
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John Kirk Townsend: The Cost of Exploration
John Kirk Townsend (August 10, 1809 – 1851). Born into a Quaker family in Philadelphia, Townsend became a leading figure in early American natural history. His fieldwork across the Rocky ...
USS California: From Ruin to Powerhouse
On August 10, 1921, the USS California was commissioned. During the Attack on Pearl Harbor she was struck by enemy bombers and sank three days later. The following year the ...
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Rhonda Fleming: The Striking Palette of the Queen of Technicolor
Rhonda Fleming, born August 10, 1923, was dubbed the “Queen of Technicolor” because her red hair and blue eyes were striking on film. Although the incident sounds improbable, she was ...
Herbert Hoover: The Global Humanitarian Cast in the Shadow of Crisis
Born on this day in 1874: Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States. From orphaned Quaker boy in Iowa to global humanitarian and Stanford-trained engineer, Hoover rose to the ...
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The Hijacking of Candid Camera: Allen Funt’s Surreal Flight to Cuba
Allen Funt’s Candid Camera show was a television staple beginning August 10, 1948. Ironically, Funt and his family were bound from Newark to Miami in 1969 when their flight was ...
FDR at Campobello: The Unresolved Medical Mystery That Reshaped a Presidency
On August 10, 1921, while vacationing on Campobello Island, 39-year-old Franklin D. Roosevelt developed chills, fever, and muscle weakness—symptoms that quickly progressed to paralysis. He was diagnosed with poliomyelitis, or ...
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The Boulder Depot Blast: The Fatal Climax of the 1907 Railway Strike
On August 10, 1907, a freight car containing over a ton of dynamite was ignited by a fire that occurred during a workers strike at the Colorado and Southern Railway ...
Jimmy Dean: From the Texas Cotton Fields to the Top of the Country Charts
American country musician, actor, and entrepreneur Jimmy Dean was born in Seth Ward, Texas on August 10, 1928. His hit song “Big Bad John” was recorded in Nashville in August ...
Leo Fender: The Non-Musician Who Built the Solid-Body Sound of Rock and Roll
Inventor and designer Leo Fender was born on August 10, 1909. The company he founded is known for the famed Telecaster and Stratocaster (shown) electric guitars, the Precision Bass, Jazz ...
Phelps and Bush: The High-Stakes Diplomacy of the Beijing Pool
President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush pose for photos with U.S. Olympic swimmers Larsen Jensen, left, and Michael Phelps Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008, at the National Aquatics Center ...
Missouri Statehood: Bridging the Western Frontier at the Cost of Compromise
An image from the early 1870s titled “Oldest House. St. Louis, Missouri.” About 50 years earlier, on August 10, 1821, Missouri became the 24th state. Missouri’s official admission to the ...
The Smithsonian Institution: James Smithson’s Bequest of Global Knowledge
On August 10, 1846, the Smithsonian Institution was established when President Polk signed the act after a decade of debate.The creation of the Smithsonian was triggered by an extraordinary, highly ...
Project Magellan: Piercing the Choking Clouds of Venus
On August 10, 1990, NASA’s Magellan space probe began orbiting the planet Venus. The probe was launched over a year earlier in May of 1989.Magellan’s arrival in orbit on August ...
Jack Haley: The Vaudeville Heart Behind the Tin Man’s Armor
Jack Haley, who played the role of The Tin Man in the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, was born on August 10, 1897, in Boston, Massachusetts.Haley’s casting as the ...
