Today is Sunday, Aug. 10, the 223rd day of 2008. There are 143 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Sunday, Aug. 10, the 223rd day of 2008. There are 143 days left in the year. On this date in 1846, President Polk signs a measure establishing the Smithsonian Institution, named after English scientist James Smithson, whose bequest of half a million dollars had made it possible.

In 1874, Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, is born in West Branch, Iowa. In 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt is stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello. In 1948, Allen Funt’s “Candid Microphone,” later titled “Candid Camera,” makes its television debut on ABC. In 1968, 35 people are killed in the crash of a Piedmont Airlines Fairchild FH-227 at Kanawha County Airport in West Virginia. In 1988, President Reagan signs a measure providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who’d been interned by the government during World War II. In 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sworn in as the second female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

August 10, 1983: A Youngstown couple, Andreas and Ursula Schuller of Indianola Road, claims the top prize in Pennsylvania’s Lotto, $3 million. Mrs. Schuller says the first priority for the money will be to get her husband’s brother and his family out of Romania.

One of the Butler Institute of American Art’s most beloved paintings, Winslow Homer’s “Crack the Whip,” undergoes restoration by Philip Vance, chief conservator of the Intermuseum Conservation Association at Oberlin, before going on a tour of 100 masterworks of American Art to Boston, Washington and The Louvre in Paris. Another Butler work, Martin Johnson Heade’s “Salt Marsh Hay,” is also on the tour.

August 10, 1968: Cpl. Marshall David Wolford, 21, of 409 E. Pasadena Ave., is killed in Vietnam when the base camp he was defending was invaded.

Mahoning County Administrator William G. Tablack and Thomas Yacko of Youngstown and Albert Tkach of Pulaski are killed when a car driven by The Rev. John D. Ycoback and that driven by Tkach collide in Rt. 422 in Lawrence County during heavy fog.

August 10, 1958: Charles L. Parshall, 24, a graduate of Hickory High School, is an electrician’s mate aboard the Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear sub, which made a historic trip beneath the ice of the North Pole.

Joe Campana had to go an extra hole to defeat Warren Harding classmate Tom Tereba for the Class A championship in the 27th Annual Youngstown District Junior Golf Tournament.

August 10, 1933: Heroism and quick thinking of an unknown girl camper in Ashtabula County is credited with saving the live of William K. Evans, 25, of Youngstown, who was bitten by a rattlesnake while on vacation at Cardinal Lake at Rome, Ohio. The girl cut away some flesh and sucked the poison from the wound. Serum was rushed from Philadelphia.

Archbishop Edward A. Mooney, apostolic delegate to Japan, takes part in the foreign mission program at the national convention of the Catholic Students Mission Crusade in Cincinnati. Both Ursuline High School and St. Joseph’s Academy at Villa Maria are represented at the convention.