On August 10, 2003, the United Kingdom records its first-ever temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

On August 10, 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg becomes the second woman—and first Jewish woman—to serve on the Supreme Court.

On August 10, 1984, the action thriller Red Dawn, starring Patrick Swayze, opens in theaters as the first movie to be released with a PG-13 rating.

On August 10, 1981, Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies gets the 3,631st hit of his baseball career, breaking Stan Musial’s record for most hits by a National Leaguer.

On August 10, 1978, three teenage girls die after their 1973 Ford Pinto is rammed from behind by a van and bursts into flames on an Indiana highway.

On August 10, 1945, just a day after the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan submits its acquiescence to the Potsdam Conference terms of unconditional surrender, as President Harry S.

On August 10, 1939, The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland and featuring words and music by E.

On August 10, 1937, the United States Patent Office recognizes the electric guitar—the instrument that revolutionized jazz, blues and country music and made the later rise of rock and roll possible—with the award of Patent #2,089.

On August 10, 1912, Virginia Stephen, 30, marries Leonard Woolf, 31, at a registry office in London.

After more than two centuries as a royal palace, the Louvre is opened as a public museum in Paris by the French revolutionary government.