Daily Calendar for Friday, August 10, 2029

Name: Daily Almanac Features
Start: 2029-08-10T00:00:00
End: 2029-08-10T23:59:59

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Otto Lilienthal (German aviator whose work made a significant contribution to the success of the Wright Brothers) – 1896
Robert Goddard (rocket scientist) – 1945
Isaac Hayes (singer & songwriter) – 2008

Missouri, the second state to be created from the Louisiana Purchase, was admitted to the Union as the 24th state – 1821
The Smithsonian Institution was established at the bequest of James Smithson; the reason for the bequest remains unknown – 1846
Alexander Graham Bell received the first long-distance phone call in Brantford, Ontario, from his father who was 8 miles away in Paris, Ontario – 1876
The Canadian Bill of Rights was enacted – 1960
President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 – 1988
Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the 107th justice of the US Supreme Court – 1993
First Earth/Space wedding. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, aboard the International Space Station (ISS), married Ekaterina Dmitriev, on Earth – 2003
For the first time in Canada, a court ordered a man to give his ex-wife monthly support payments for their dog. The man was told to pay $200 a month in alimony towards the upkeep of the couples’ St. Bernard – 2004

A tornado hit Coney Island, New York, causing extensive damage – 1878
Frost was reported in Iowa and Chicago – 1882
101.3 degrees F in Kent, England – 2003
-136 degrees F (-93.2 degrees C) recorded at the East Antarctic Plateau in Antarctica, making it the coldest temperature on Earth on record at the time – 2010