On August 10, 1939, The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland
and featuring words and music by E.Y. “Yip” Harburg and
Harold Arlen, received its world premiere in Green Bay,
Wisconsin. It would open widely in U.S. theaters some two
weeks later.

The Wizard of Oz was a critical success and was nominated
for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning
Best Original Song for "Over the Rainbow" and Best Original
Score.

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Orpheum Theatre

Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm)
(June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969)

Early in the morning of August 9, 1969, members of Charles
Manson’s cult killed five people in movie director Roman
Polanski’s Beverly Hills, California, home, including his
pregnant wife, actress Sharon Tate.

Charles Milles Manson
(Maddox; November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017)

         
SANDY KOZEL

At Auburn Prison in New York, the first execution by electrocution
in history is carried out against William Kemmler, who had been convicted of murdering his lover, Matilda Ziegler, with an axe.

Electrocution as a humane means of execution was first suggested
in 1881 by Dr. Albert Southwick, a dentist.

DAILY EVENING EXPOSITOR, Fresno, California, Aug. 6, 1890.

 
Alfred Porter Southwick
(May 18, 1826–June 11, 1898)

From the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida,
the U.S. unmanned spacecraft Explorer 6 atop a Thor-Able
rocket was launched into an orbit around the earth.

The spacecraft, commonly known  as the “Paddlewheel”
satellite, featured a photocell scanner that transmitted a
crude picture of the earth’s surface and cloud cover from
a distance of 17,000 miles. The photo, received in Hawaii,
took nearly 40 minutes to transmit.

The first satellite image of Earth captured by Explorer 6 on August 14, 1959.