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Scene from the battle of Resaca de La Palma when American forces under General Zachary Taylor defeated General Mariano Arista's Mexican Army of the North, near present day Brownsville, Texas, May 9, 1846. Lithograph by Kelloggs & Thayer. (Photo by Library of Congress/Interim Archives/Getty Images)
The Smithsonian Institute was created by James Polk, with the Missouri Compromise the 24th state was created, FDR came down with polio, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg was named a Supreme Court Justice in This Day in History video. The date is August 10th. President Roosevelt went to sleep on Campobello Island with a fever and woke up the next morning paralyzed with polio.
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