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Today in History
August 10

955   Otto organizes his nobles and defeats the invading Magyars at the Battle of Lechfeld in Germany.
1539   King Francis of France declares that all official documents are to be written in French, not Latin.
1557   French troops are defeated by Emmanuel Philibert’s Spanish army at St. Quentin, France.
1582   Russia ends its 25-year war with Poland.
1628   The Swedish warship Vasa capsizes and sinks in Stockholm harbor on her maiden voyage.
1779   Louis XVI of France frees the last remaining serfs on royal land.
1831   William Driver of Salem, Massachusetts, is the first to use the term "Old Glory" in connection with the American flag, when he gives that name to a large flag aboard his ship, the Charles Daggett.
1846   The Smithsonian Institution is established in Washington through the bequest of James Smithson.
1864   Confederate Commander John Bell Hood sends his cavalry north of Atlanta to cut off Union General William Sherman’s supply lines.
1911   The House of Lords in Great Britain gives up its veto power, making the House of Commons the more powerful House.
1913   The Treaty of Bucharest ends the Second Balkan War.
1941   Great Britain and the Soviet Union promise aid to Turkey if it is attacked by the AxisPowers.
1950   President Harry S. Truman calls the National Guard to active duty to fight in the Korean War.

Born on August 10
1753   Edmund Jennings Randolph, governor of Virginia and first U.S. attorney general.
1810   Camillo di Cavour, helped bring about the unification of Italy under the House of Saxony.
1874   Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States (1929-1933).
1909   George W. Crockett, first African-American lawyer with the U.S. Department of Labor.
1909   Leo Fender, inventor of the first mass-produced electric guitar.
1928   Eddie Fisher, American singer.

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