Today is Wednesday, Aug. 10, the 223rd day of 2016. There are 143 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Actress Rhonda Fleming is 93. Singer Ronnie Spector is 73. Rock singer-flutist Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is 69. Singer Patti Austin is 66. Singer-songwriter Sam Baker is 62. Actress Rosanna Arquette is 57. Actor Antonio Banderas is 56. Blogger Andrew Sullivan is 53. Boxer Riddick Bowe is 49. Singer-producer Michael Bivins is 48.

In 1846, President Polk signed a measure establishing the Smithsonian Institution.

In 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello.

In 1969, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson’s cult, a day after five people including actress Sharon Tate had been slain.

In 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female justice on the Supreme Court.

In 1995, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were charged with 11 counts in the Oklahoma City bombing (McVeigh was convicted of murder and executed; Nichols was convicted of conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to life in prison). Norma McCorvey, ‘‘Jane Roe’’ of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, revealed she had joined the antiabortion group Operation Rescue.

In 2006, British authorities announced they had thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up 10 aircraft heading to the United States using explosives smuggled in hand luggage.