Today is Monday, Aug. 10, the 222nd day of 2026. There are 143 days left in the year.<\/p>\n
Today in history:<\/p>\n
On Aug. 10, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein, accused of orchestrating a sex-trafficking ring and sexually abusing dozens of underage girls, was found unresponsive in his New York City jail cell and later pronounced dead at a hospital. (The city\u2019s medical examiner ruled the death a suicide.)<\/p>\n
Also on this date:<\/p>\n
In 1792, during the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attacked the Tuileries (TWEE\u2019-luh-reez) Palace, where King Louis XVI resided. (The king was later arrested, put on trial for treason, and executed.)<\/p>\n
In 1821, Missouri became the 24th state admitted to the Union.<\/p>\n
In 1945, a day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Imperial Japan conveyed its willingness to surrender provided the status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged. (The Allies responded the next day, saying they would determine the Emperor\u2019s future status.)<\/p>\n
In 1969, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson\u2019s cult, one day after actor Sharon Tate and four other people were killed.<\/p>\n
In 1977, postal employee David Berkowitz was arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being \u201cSon of Sam,\u201d the gunman who killed six people and wounded seven others in the New York City area. (Berkowitz pleaded guilty to second-degree murder charges and was sentenced to six consecutive life terms in prison.)<\/p>\n
In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a measure providing $20,000 payments to still-living Japanese-Americans who were interned by the U.S. government during World War II.<\/p>\n
In 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, serving until her death in September 2020.<\/p>\n
In 2006, British authorities announced they had thwarted a plot to simultaneously blow up 10 aircraft heading to the U.S. using liquid explosives made to look like soft drinks.<\/p>\n
In 2018, Richard Russell, a 29-year-old airline ground agent, stole a commercial plane from Sea-Tac International Airport near Seattle; he flew for 75 minutes, performing dangerous stunts while being chased by military jets before crashing into a remote island in Puget Sound, killing himself.<\/p>\n
In 2020, a powerful derecho struck several Midwest U.S. states, causing four fatalities and an estimated $11 billion in damage, making it the costliest thunderstorm in modern U.S. history.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/p>\n
Actor James Reynolds is 80.
\nRock singer-musician Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is 79.
\nCountry musician Gene Johnson (Diamond Rio) is 77.
\nSinger Patti Austin is 76.
\nActor Daniel Hugh Kelly is 74.
\nFolk singer-songwriter Sam Baker is 72.
\nActor Rosanna Arquette is 67.
\nActor Antonio Banderas is 66.
\nRock musician Jon Farriss (INXS) is 65.
\nSinger Julia Fordham is 64.
\nActor Chris Caldovino is 63.
\nSinger Neneh Cherry is 62.
\nSinger Aaron Hall is 62.
\nFormer boxer Riddick Bowe is 59.
\nActor Sean Blakemore is 59.
\nR&B singer Lorraine Pearson (Five Star) is 59.
\nSinger-producer Michael Bivins is 58.
\nActor-writer Justin Theroux is 55.
\nActor Angie Harmon is 54.
\nCountry singer Jennifer Hanson is 53.
\nActor JoAnna Garcia Swisher is 47.
\nSinger Cary Ann Hearst (Shovels & Rope) is 47.
\nActor Aaron Staton is 46.
\nActor Ryan Eggold is 42.
\nActor Lucas Till is 36.
\nReality TV star Kylie Jenner is 29.
\nActor Jeremy Maguire is 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Monday, Aug. 10, the 222nd day of 2026. There are 143 days left in the year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[119811,119812,75,84,83,9,24,63,3646],"class_list":["post-317589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-august-10-history","tag-jeffrey-epstein-death","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-today-in-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}