This portrait from February 10, 1923, shows Dr. Joel Thompson Boone (1889–1974), one of the most decorated medical officers in U.S. Navy history. A Medal of Honor surgeon for extraordinary heroism with the 6th Marines at Soissons, Boone repeatedly crossed open ground under fire and gas to treat wounded Marines—actions that earned him the nation’s highest military honor, along with the Distinguished Service Cross and six Silver Stars. At the time of this photograph, he was a Lieutenant Commander serving as an assistant physician at the White House under President Warren G. Harding.

Boone’s career carried him from the battlefields of France to the inner workings of American government. He later served as physician to Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, and continued his Navy service through World War II and the Korean War, retiring as a Vice Admiral in 1950. He then became Chief Medical Director of the Veterans Administration, shaping care for those who bore the cost of war.

On February 10, 1912, seven governors from various states addressed a letter to former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, encouraging him to announce his willingness to accept the Republican nomination for the presidency. Roosevelt responded a few weeks later expressing his gratitude, but by June of that year, during the Republican National Convention, the Party decided to nominate President William Howard Taft for reelection. Taft would ultimately lose the general election to Woodrow Wilson.

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“Snowballing” (snowball fight on the steps of the Florida Capitol, February 10, 1899)

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On February 10, 1763, the Treaty of Paris which ended the Seven Years War’ global conflict, which included the French & Indian War in present day United States, was signed in Paris. 184 years later on February 10, 1947, The Paris Peace Treaties were signed following the end of WWII.

Image map Great Britain’s dominions c. 1740-1763 via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

On today’s date February 10, 1786 American Revolutionary War General John Cadwalader died in Maryland (just a little more than 4 years after the British surrendered at Yorktown.) He was only 44 years old. https://archive.org/details/livesofheroesofa00unse/page/126

Nine-time Olympic Gold Medalist in swimming, Mark Spitz, was born on February 10, 1950 in Modesto, California. Image of Spitz at a press conference in 1972 via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

Cloud of smoke from exploding dynamite at Hole-in-Wall bluffs above Matanuska River, Alaska, February 10, 1917. via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

Chemist Ira Remsen, born February 10, 1846, made the world a little sweeter in 1879 when he and partner Constantin Fahlberg discovered saccharin. Fahlberg patented the artificial sweetener while Remsen went on to found the American Chemical Journal and become president of Johns Hopkins University.

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A photo of the beautiful Frances Folsom Cleveland, the wife of President Grover Cleveland

Did you know that almost 5 years after Grover Cleveland’s death Mrs. Cleveland remarried on February 10, 1913 to a professor named Thomas Preston? She was the first widow of a US President to rewed.

Image: Frances Folsom Cleveland c. 1886, the year she married Grover Cleveland

A photo taken by FDR of Margaret “Daisy” Suckley on February 10, 1942. Daisy was FDR’s sixth cousin who he hired to work as the FDR Library Archivist in 1941. She worked there until 1963.

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John William Lambert (who had more than 600 inventions) and his brothers in a Union Car Company automobile Image dated February 10, 1902

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Marilyn Monroe with her husband American playwright Arthur Miller in 1957

On February 10, 1949 Arthur Miller’s “Death of A Salesman” opened on Broadway

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“Manila-the ammunition train and reserves of the 20th Kansas volunteers, Colonel Frederick Funston marching through Caloocan at night after the battle of February 10.” – 1899 The Philippine-American War

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Woman, holding umbrella, pushing baby in carriage equipped with rain cover c. 1913 Happy National Umbrella Day!
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On today’s date February 10, 1766, Benjamin Smith Barton was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1803 his book “Elements of botany, or Outlines of the Natural History of Vegetables” was published. It’s considered to be the first American textbook in the field of botany. https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/bookviewer?PID=nlm:nlmuid-2542054RX1-mvpart

Photo: Benjamin Smith Barton portrait by Samuel Jennings [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

American celebrity Jimmy Durante was born on February 10, 1893 in New York City. During his career he raised funds for children with disabilities and children who were neglected.

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A woman forges ahead during a blizzard in Manhattan February 10, 1969

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The 25th Amendment was adopted on February 10, 1967, to clarify presidential succession and ensure continuity of government after the confusion that followed President Kennedy’s assassination. It established clear procedures for filling a vice‑presidential vacancy and for transferring presidential power when a president is incapacitated.