August 10th

(Thanks to Elise, Shayna, Carl, and Dave's blogs.)

Only because this is interesting: August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 143 days remaining. (My birth year was not a leap year.)

Events:

• 1846 - The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the U.S. Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist James Smithson.
• 1977 - In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over a year's period. (A lot of very violent things happened on my birthdate.)
  
• 2003 - The highest temperature ever recorded in the UK, 38.5°C (101.3°F), occurs in Kent. It is the first time the UK has recorded a temperature over 100 degrees.

Births:

• 1856 - William Willett, Inventor of Daylight Saving Time (d. 1915)
• 1874 - Herbert Hoover, President of the United States (d. 1964)
• 1967 - Riddick Bowe, American boxer

Deaths:

• 258 - Saint Lawrence, martyr
• 1963 - Estes Kefauver, U.S. Senator from Tennessee (b. 1903)
• 2002 - Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (b. 1962)