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▲ On Aug. 10, 1793, after more than two centuries as a royal palace, the Louvre is opened as a public museum in Paris by the French revolutionary government. The Louvre palace was begun by King Francis I in 1546 on the site of a 12th-century fortress built by King Philip II. Today the Louvre contains artwork and artifacts representative of 11,000 years of human civilization and culture. ▲ On Aug. 6, 1902, Arthur Flegenheimer, who will go on to become one of New York’s most feared criminals under the name “Dutch Schultz,” is born. Years later, Schultz was one of the biggest gangsters in New York, employing as many as 100 gunmen to enforce his rackets.

German team had buried explosives on Long Island to in 2,130 games in a row, setting a record that would use later. On July 18, a second team had successfully stand for over half a century. landed in Florida. ▲ On Aug. 15, 1969, the Woodstock Music Festival ▲ On Aug. 7, 1987, Lynne Cox braves the freezing opens on a patch of farmland in White Lake, New waters of the Bering Strait to make the first recorded York. By the time the gates opened, more than 400,000 swim from the United States to the Soviet Union. Her people were clamoring to get in. Those without tickets training regimen included regularly swimming in water simply walked through gaps in the fences, and the at between 38 and 42 degrees F. Cox rarely swam in a organizers were eventually forced to make the event wetsuit regardless of water temperature. free of charge. ▲On Aug. 16, 1920, Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman is struck in the temple by a ball pitched by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees. He died 12 hours later. After Chapman’s injury, it was mandated that scuffed or discolored balls be replaced with new white ones, making them easier to see.

▲ On Aug. 14, 1985, Michael Jackson purchases the publishing rights to the vast majority of the Beatles’ catalog for $47 million, outbidding even Paul McCartney. In later years, the catalog -- now estimated to be worth in excess of $1 billion -- allowed Jackson to remain solvent by serving as collateral for several enormous personal loans.

▲ On Aug. 17, 1933, New York Yankees first baseman ▲ On Aug. 8, 1942, six German saboteurs who secretly Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,308th consecutive game, (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc. entered the United States on a mission to attack its breaking former Yankee Everett Scott’s record for infrastructure are executed for spying. On June 12, the consecutive games played. Gehrig would go on to play section of the first transatlantic telegraph cable, completed in 1866.

• In 1920, Harry Burt started the Good in Ham Lake Humor Ice Cream Company and operated a fleet of 12 trucks complete with freezers and bells. His salesmen wore crisp white On Majestic and were required to tip their hats to 50 Wonderful Oaks uniforms all ladies.

The Smithsonian is home to a 1938 Golf Course Apartments Chevrolet Good Humor truck, a valuable piece of American history. w / elevator • In February of 1960, four AfricanAmerican students sat down at a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth’s lunch counter, filling seats vacated by white customers. After being refused service, they stayed in their seats, initiating a peaceful sit-in against racial inequality, and launching a pivotal phase of • Fully Equipped Electric Kitchen Self Cleaning Oven the civil rights movement. A section of that • Washer & Dryer lunch counter, along with four stools, is a • Cable TV and Computer Hook-ups popular landmark in the American History Museum.

• Individually Controlled Central Heating & Air • One of the most popular exhibits in the • Community Gathering Room with Golf Smithsonian is the Star-Spangled Banner flag, Course Patio Exercise Room & Library also called the Great Garrison flag, which flew over Baltimore’s Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. This flag was the inspiration for Francis Scott Key, who penned the nowfamous poem “Defense of Fort McHenry,” SMITHSONIAN which was later set to music, becoming the U.S. national anthem. The flag with its 15 stars and 15 stripes was (continued) sewn by a Baltimore woman named Mary Pickergill in 1813 for $405.90. After the war, the banner was in the • Bell B ll and d hi his wife if accompanied i d S Smithson’s ith ’ bbody d possession of the family of Major George Armistead, across the ocean to the United States, and in January, the commander of the fort, until 1912, when it was 1904, the body was escorted through Washington, D.C. donated to the Smithsonian. It has undergone several by the U.S. Cavalry to Smithson’s final resting place, a restorations, the first in 1914 and the most recent, a crypt on the first floor of the Smithsonian Castle. long-term restoration begun in 1999.

• There are 19 different museums and galleries in • Pieces from the life of George Washington abound the Smithsonian complex, including the Air and Space in the Smithsonian, including a wisp of his hair, a brick Museum, National Zoological Park, American History from his childhood home, a letter hand-written by him Museum, American Indian Museum, National Portrait in 1785, his uniform from the Revolutionary War, and Gallery, and Natural History Museum. The American wood from his coffin. There is also a 12-ton marble History Museum, with over three million artifacts in its statue of the nation’s first president, completed in 1841, collection, contains everything from a piece of Plymouth sitting atop a granite pedestal. Walk over to the National Rock to the ruby slippers and scarecrow costume from Portrait Gallery and you can see Gilbert Stuart’s famous 1939’s The Wizard of Oz. Lewis and Clark’s compass painting of Washington, the image we see every day on from their 1803 expedition is housed there as well as a the dollar bill.

• The world of sports is well-represented at the Smithsonian with a pair of 1823 roller skates, Muhammad Ali’s boxing gloves, Bobby Orr’s hockey gloves, Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls jersey, and jockey Steve Cauthen’s horse-racing silks. The speed skates worn by Olympic gold medalist Apolo Ohno at the 2002 Winter Olympics, Arthur Ashe’s tennis racket, Roger Staubach’s football jersey, and Hank Aaron’s baseball jersey are all part of the collection of 6,000 sports items.

• Over 26,000 square feet of the transportation hall are filled with objects chronicling the nation’s travels, including a railroad car from 1836, a 1903 Winton, which was the first car driven across the United States, and a 40-foot (12.2-m) section of the famous Route 66.

• The green-domed Museum of Natural History opened in 1910, among the first Smithsonian buildings to be constructed. Its area is the size of about 18 football fields and houses fossils, minerals, meteorites, dinosaur skeletons, taxidermy, and sections. The insect exhibit features 30 million creatures pinned into boxes. In the herbarium, 4.5 million plants have been pressed onto sheets of paper.

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• Eugene Cernan was the last man to walk on the moon on Dec. 14, 1972. The National Air and Space Museum is home to Cernan’s spacesuit, garb that weighed about 185 lbs. (84 kg) on Earth. Visitors to this museum can also see a lunar roving vehicle, Saturn V rockets, Charles Lindbergh memorabilia, and the B-29 Superfortress, the Enola Gay.

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