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Here’s what happened on this day in history — the stories that shaped the world.
■ TODAY’S LEAD STORYWhen France abolished the monarchy, it had to decide what to do with centuries of royal collecting — and on August 10, 1793, it opened the Louvre to anyone who wanted to walk in.READ FULL STORY →
■ ALSO ON THIS DAYJames Smithson never visited America, left no explanation for his gift, and bequeathed his entire fortune to a country he’d never seen — and it built one of the world’s great institutions.READ MORE →
■ MORE FROM HISTORYRed Dawn opened on August 10, 1984, as the first movie in history to carry the PG-13 rating — a classification that would eventually become the most commercially powerful in Hollywood.READ MORE →
■ DID YOU KNOW?
The state of Montana has three times more cattle than people. As of recent census data, the state’s human population is approximately one million; its cattle population is approximately three million. Montana is one of several Western states where livestock significantly outnumber residents — a ratio that shapes its politics, its economy, and its identity in ways that are still actively contested.
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