The Oldest Marked Grave: Dominick Trant at West Point
Ensign Dominick Trant was eighteen when he died on November 7, 1782, far from his native Cork. He had arrived in Boston and entered the Continental Army in June 1781, ...
Cimarron Makes Oscar History
On November 10, 1931, Cimarron became the first Western to win the Academy’s top prize. At the fourth Academy Awards, held at Los Angeles’s Biltmore Hotel, the RKO production received the award ...
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The Grooming of a Statesman: Lincoln’s Springfield Receipt
On November 10, 1860, a mere four days after winning the presidency, Abraham Lincoln walked into his local Springfield, Illinois drugstore to purchase a bottle of tonic and a container ...
A Clearer View: Mary Anderson and the Windshield Wiper
On November 10, 1903, Mary Anderson, an Alabama real estate developer and rancher, received a U.S. patent for a “Window Cleaning Device”—an early windshield wiper designed to solve a problem ...
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The Verdict of Andersonville: The Execution of Henry Wirz
On November 10, 1865, Captain Henry Wirz, commander of the prison stockade at Andersonville, Georgia, was hanged in the courtyard of Washington’s Old Capitol Prison. His execution followed a military ...
The Birth of the Corps: Tun Tavern and the Continental Marines
On November 10, 1775, the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, resolved to raise two battalions of Continental Marines. That decision established the force whose founding the United States Marine ...
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The Dual-Sport Dynasty: Gene Conley’s Twin Crowns
Born on November 10, 1930, in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Donald Eugene “Gene” Conley built a sporting résumé that remains unique: he is the only athlete to win both a World Series ...
The Iron Hull and the Inland Sea: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
On November 10, 1975, the American freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior during a violent autumn storm, taking all twenty-nine crew members with it. The 729-foot vessel disappeared without transmitting a ...
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