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August 10
612 BC Fall of Nineveh to the Babylonians and the forces of Medes, leads to the sack of one of the greatest cities in the world, the destruction of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and the death of King Sinsharishkun [date approximate]
1497 Explorer John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to "Asia"
1675 King Charles II and John Flamsteed lay the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London
1846 US Act of Congress passes establishment of the Smithsonian Institution, now the world's largest museum and research complex
1885 Leo Daft opens America's first commercially operated electric streetcar in Baltimore
1948 ABC enters network TV at 7 pm (WJZ, NY)
1787 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his chamber piece "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" (A Little Serenade)
1984 Famous Mary Decker-Zola Budd collision during 3000 m at the Los Angeles Olympics; Decker falls, Budd finishes 7th, and Maricica Puică of Romania wins
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