“$1,250,000 gold bullion, Miners and Merchant’s Bank in Nome, Alaska – June 10, 1906”

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“One more charge boys, and the day is ours.”

Believed to be the last words spoken by Union Major Theodore Winthrop before he was shot and killed at the Battle of Big Bethel in Virginia on June 10, 1861.

In one of the earliest battles of the Civil War, Union Forces were sent from Fort Monroe in Virginia, a fort that never fell to the Confederacy throughout the Civil War.
Years earlier a young Robert E. Lee, who was an engineer in the U.S. Army, had a significant role in the construction of Fort Monroe.

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United States Marine with Flags in Encampment, Camp McCalla, 1898

On June 10, 1898 the United States Marines landed at Guantánamo Bay and begin their invasion of Cuba.

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Judy Garland was born on June 10, 1922 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.

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The first formal graduation of U.S. Naval Academy students in Annapolis, Maryland occurred on June 10, 1854.

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Bridget Bishop was the first of 20 people executed during the Salem Witch Trials, hanged on June 10, 1692. A bold, independent tavern owner known for her vivid clothing and defiant spirit, she stood apart in Puritan Salem. Accused largely on spectral evidence and local suspicion, she denied all charges but was convicted by the newly formed Court of Oyer and Terminer. Her death marked the beginning of a tragic episode that would claim 18 more by hanging, and one—Giles Corey—by pressing.

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Rebecca Latimer Felton who was the first woman to serve in U.S. Senate (for a single day in 1922) was born on June 10, 1835 in Decatur, Georgia.

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On June 10, 1861, the Union Army appointed Dorothea Dix as Superintendent of Army Nurses.

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Born June 10, 1893 Hattie McDaniel won the 1939 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Gone with the Wind, the first African American to do so. Only 83 of her roles were credited, although she actually appeared in over 300 films. Also a singer-songwriter, McDaniel was the first African American woman to sing on radio in the US.

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Nearly a week before the musical film “Grease” hit theaters, ‘You’re the One That I Want’ by Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta topped the U.S. charts on June 10, 1978.

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On June 10, 1809, Robert L. Stevens began the perilous journey from New York to Philadelphia aboard a sidewheel steamship, called the Phoenix, that he and his father, John Stevens, built. It’s considered the first time a steamship navigated the open ocean. The vessel encountered a storm and rough seas and took thirteen days to reach Philadelphia.

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