Celebration Excuse
Magellan goes where no man has gone before, surprise…the French are angry about something, and Japanese-Americans finally get justice in the form of cold hard cash. It’s August 10, and Antonio Banderas is the only sane person on our birthday list.
1519
Ferdinand Magellan’s five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
1792
French Revolution: King Louis XVI is arrested and taken into custody when an angry mob storms the TuileriesPalace.
1821
Update your flag! Missouri becomes the 24thU.S. state.
1846
The U.S. Congress charters the Smithsonian Institution after scientist James Smithson cuts them a big check for the museum.
1971
Sweet job. The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
1977
New York City’s David Berkowitz (“Son of Sam”), is arrested for a series of killings over the previous year.
1988
President Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were either interned or relocated by in the United States during World War II.
1995
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the Oklahoma City bombing.
2000
The world’s population reaches 6 billion. And McDonalds has served them all.
Party like it’s your birthday
1874: Almost the worst President ever, Herbert Hoover
1943: Embattled Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf
1945: Equally embattled former White House Counsel, Harriet Miers
1960: Mask of Zoro actor Antonio Banderas
Daybook
POTUS
Still relaxin’ with Mrs. Potus in Kennebunkport, Maine.
STUMPIN’
Representative Ron Paul holds “Ronstock” in Ames, Iowa. What?
John Edwards speaks at a union rally in Las Vegas.
Senator John McCain holds a town hall in Wolfeboro, N.H.
Mitt Romney holds town halls in Ogden and Nevada, Iowa, attends a pork producers event in Des Moines and holds a pre-straw poll rally in Ames.
Senator Barack Obama speaks to the National Association of Black Journalists in Las Vegas.
Senator Sam Brownback rallies in West Des Moines and Ames, Iowa.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigns in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Tommy G. Thompson and Mike Huckabee speak to the A.A.R.P. in Des Moines.
Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee speak at The Des Moines Register’s Old-Fashioned Political Soapbox.
Gov. Bill Richardson fundraises in California.
Rudy Giuliani campaigns in Colorado Springs.
Mike Huckabee is a guest on WHO Radio in Des Moines.
Fred Thompson holds a party in Ames.
ON THE HILL
What’s this? A hearing in August?!
10:00 AM
House Homeland Security Committee
Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment Subcomittee field hearing on “Information Sharing and National Special Security Events: Preparing for the 2008 Presidential Conventions.”
INSIDE THE BELTWAY
7:30 AM
The Education Department’s Office of Special Education Programs
2007 Leadership Conference on “Working Together.”
9:00 AM
Federal Communications Commission
Meeting of the Consumer Advisory Committee, focusing on digital television transition, consumer protection and education, access by people with disabilities, and the impact upon consumers of new and emerging technologies.
TV TIME
TiVo this
Oprah: fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger
The View: (Repeat) Mat Kearney, HalleBerry
Regis and Kelly: Lance Bass, Corbin Bleu, Chef Tell
Ellen DeGeneres: (Repeat) Michelle Pfeiffer, Adam Brody, Josh Groban and the African Children’s Choir
Stay up late
Letterman: (Repeat) Denis Leary, Flight of the Conchords
Leno: Rainn Wilson, Gordon Ramsay, Fuel
Late Late Show: Cuba Gooding Jr., Cash Levy, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Conan: Judd Apatow, Amanda Bynes, Straylight Run
Last Call: Adam Goldberg, Clay Walker
Kimmel: David Duchovny, Jonah Hill, El-P
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