Once Upon A Time – August 10 – 1885 – Leo Daft Opens America’s 1st Commercially Operated Electric Streetcar In Baltimore

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

610 In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the Qur’an

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
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)

MORE FACTS…
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)