08-10-2004, 06:30 AM
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August 10th
1519 ~ Ferdinand Magellan's 5 ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
1792 ~ French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
1809 ~ Ecuador declares independence from Spain.
1900 ~ Birthday of Wolfgang Pauli, physicist.
1920 ~ World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives signed the Treaty of Sevres which divided up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies. (note to self – don’t lose wars)
1945 ~ Death of Robert Goddard, Rocket Scientist.
1948 ~ ”Candid Camera” makes its television after being on radio for a year as “Candid Microphone”.
1954 ~ At Messena, New York, the ground breaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway was held.
1988 ~ Japanese American Internment: US President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were either interned or relocated by in the United States during World War II.
1990 ~ The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
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