Once Upon A Time – August 10 – 1846 – U.S. Act Of Congress Passes Establishing Smithsonian Institution, Now World’s Largest Museum

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612 BC Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.

1497 John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to “Asia”

1675 King Charles II and John Flamsteed lay the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London

1846 US Act of Congress passes establishing the Smithsonian Institution, now world’s largest museum and research complex

Historical Events Today Events in 2023

Today in Film & TV

1948 ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY)

Today in Music

1787 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his chamber piece “Eine kleine Nachtmusik” (A Little Serenade)

Today in Sport

1984 Famous Mary Decker-Zola Budd collision during 3,000m at the LA Olympics; Decker falls, Budd finishes 7th; Maricica Puică of Romania wins

1885 Leo Daft opens America’s 1st commercially operated electric streetcar in Baltimore

1793 Louvre palace officially opens in Paris as The Museum Central des Arts

Famous Weddings

1848 Inventor Samuel Morse (57) weds Sarah Elizabeth Griswold in Utica, New York

1912 British literary figure (author of “To the Lighthouse”) Virginia Woolf [nee Stephen] (30) weds political theorist Leonard Woolf (31)

1933 Actress Hedy Lamarr (19) weds Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik chairman Friedrich Mandl (33)

Cleopatra, the legendary Queen of Egypt, is said to have died on this day, famously submitting to the bite of a poisonous snake. The story might even be true – August 10, 30 AD