TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 2019

On this day in history:

1519 - Ferdinand Magellan leaves Seville on his first leg of the journey to circumnavigate the world.

1792 - King Louis XVI was taken into custody by mobs during the French Revolution. He was executed the following January after being put on trial for treason.

1809 - Ecuador began its fight for independence from Spain.

1844 - Charles Sturt sets out on his final expedition to search for an inland sea in Australia.

1881 - Thomas Edison's exhibit opened the Paris Electrical Exhibition.

1914 - Austria-Hungary invaded Russia.

1921 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio.

1944 - US forces defeated the remaining Japanese resistance on Guam.

1945 - The day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan announced they would surrender. The only condition was that the status of Emperor Hirohito would remain unchanged.

1990 - The Magellan spacecraft arrives at Venus to begin mapping the planet's surface.

1999 - Near an India-Pakistan border area an Indian fighter jet shot down a Pakistani naval aircraft. Sixteen people were killed.

2003 - Ekaterina Dmitriev and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko were married. Malenchenko was about 240 miles above the earth in the international space station. It was the first-ever marriage from space.

BIRTHDAYS

Herbert Clark Hoover 1874 Leo Fender 1909

Jeff Corey 1914

Al Alberts 1922 Rhonda Fleming 1923 Claus Von Bulow 1926 Jimmy Martin 1927 Jimmy Dean 1928 Eddie Fisher 1928 Rocky Colavito 1933 Bobby Hatfield 1940 Ronnie Spector 1947

Ian Anderson 1947

Patti Austin 1948

Gene Johnson 1949 Daniel Hugh Kelly 1952 Rosanna Arquette 1959 Antonio Banderas 1960 John Farriss 1961