History for August 10

History for August 10 - On-This-Day.com
Herbert Clark Hoover (U.S.) 1874, Leo Fender 1909, Jimmy Dean 1928
 

Rocky Colavito 1933, Rosanna Arquette 1959, Antonio Banderas 1960


1869 - The motion picture projector was patented by O.B. Brown.


1921 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio.


1927 - Mount Rushmore was formally dedicated. The individual faces of the presidents were dedicated later.


1944 - U.S. 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.


1948 - On ABC, "Candid Camera" made its TV debut. The original title was "Candid Microphone."


1988 - U.S. President Reagan signed a measure that provided $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were interned by the U.S. government during World War II.


1994 - U.S. President Clinton claimed presidential immunity when he asked a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones.