Police arrested David Berkowitz in the Son of Sam killings on Aug. 10, 1977. The day also brought the E pluribus unum motto and Ginsburg's swearing-in.
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Aug. 10 carries a stack of anniversaries, and the best known is a New York crime story.
In 1977, postal worker David Berkowitz, 24, was arrested and charged as the 'Son of Sam,' the serial killer who had shot six young people dead and wounded seven others across New York City for more than a year. He was later sentenced to life in prison.
Earlier in the country's history, in 1776, a committee that included Benjamin Franklin and John Adams suggested 'E pluribus unum' ('Out of many, one') as the motto for the Great Seal. Thomas Jefferson sat on the same committee.
In 1920, Francisco 'Pancho' Villa surrendered to Mexican authorities, then celebrated with a bottle of cognac.
The civil rights era gets a marker in 1962, when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and three other activists were convicted of disorderly conduct in Albany, Ga. Judge Adie Durden fined each $200, gave them 60-day sentences, suspended the terms and put the men on probation.
Hurricane Allen came ashore on the Texas coast in 1980, killing 24 people in Texas and Louisiana. The storm's total death toll reached 269.
China agreed in principle to sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty in 1991.
Two events marked 1993. Ruth Bader Ginsburg took her oath as the 107th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The same year, three ships collided in Tampa Bay, Fla., spilling 336,000 gallons of fuel oil; no one died. It was the first time officials used a computerized trajectory model to track an oil spill.
Bob Dole, the Republican presidential nominee, chose former congressman and Cabinet secretary Jack Kemp, who had played quarterback in the NFL, as his running mate in 1996.
In 2003, more than 80 inmates escaped through a tunnel at Brazil's Joao Pessoa prison.
President Donald Trump in 2017 called opioid addiction 'a serious problem the likes of which we have never had' and declared a national emergency.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned in 2021 after an attorney general's report found he had sexually harassed nearly a dozen women.
A non-profit rescue team in 2023 recovered 17 bodies from a boat carrying Rohingya Muslims that capsized near Myanmar; 33 people remained missing. The boat had been headed to Malaysia.
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