TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT August 10, 1792

During the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attacked the Tuileries Palace, where King Louis XVI resided.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1821

Missouri became the 24th state.

1846

President James K. Polk signed a measure establishing the Smithsonian Institution.

1861

Confederate forces routed Union troops in the Battle of Wilson’s Creek in Missouri, the first major engagement of the Civil War west of the Mississippi River.

1921

Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello.

1949

The National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense.

1977

Postal employee David Berkowitz was arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being “Son of Sam,” the gunman who killed six people and wounded seven others in the New York City area.