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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1821 Missouri became the 24th state.
1846 Congress chartered the Smithsonian Institution, named after English scientist James Smithson, whose bequest of $500,000 made it possible.
1874 Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, was born in West Branch, Iowa.
1885 America's first commercially operated electric streetcar began operation in Baltimore.
1921 Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello.
1944 American forces overcame Japanese resistance on Guam during World War II.
1949 The National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense.
1969 Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson's cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people were slain.
On Aug. 10, 1977, postal employee David Berkowitz was arrested in Yonkers, N.Y., accused of being the "Son of Sam" gunman responsible for six random slayings and seven woundings. Berkowitz is serving six consecutive terms of 25 years to life in state prison.
1988 President Ronald Reagan signed a measure providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans interred by the U.S. government during World War II.
1993 Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female Supreme Court justice.
1994 President Bill Clinton claimed presidential immunity in asking a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones, a former Arkansas state employee.
1995 Norma McCorvey, ''Jane Roe'' in the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
2003 Atlanta Braves shortstop Rafael Furcal turned the 12th unassisted triple play in major league history against the St. Louis Cardinals.
Actress Rosanna Arquette turns 46 years old today.
77 Jimmy Dean
Singer
77 Eddie Fisher
Singer
58 Ian Anderson
Rock singer-musician (Jethro Tull)
33 Angie Harmon
Actress
32 Jennifer Hanson
Country singer
26 JoAnna Garcia
Actress
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