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What happened on October 10 in American history
October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (the 284th in leap years). Patriot Compass has published 7 stories from October 10 spanning 1814 to 2022. Among them: in 1814, Beached and outgunned, Eagle's crew fights the Royal Navy from shore for three days; and in 1845, Fifty midshipmen report to a converted Army fort in Annapolis.
1814
Beached and outgunned, Eagle's crew fights the Royal Navy from shore for three days
Captain Frederick Lee ran his cutter aground rather than let the British sink her, then hauled her cannon up a hill and kept firing.
1845Member story · 1776 Club
Fifty midshipmen report to a converted Army fort in Annapolis
Secretary Bancroft's new Naval School replaces years of ad hoc shipboard instruction with a fixed campus on the Severn River.
1957
Turned away at a Howard Johnson's, Ghana's finance minister gets a White House apology
Gbedemah left his orange juice and his change on the counter in Dover; Eisenhower asked him to breakfast instead.
1973
Agnew quits the vice presidency; pleads no contest to tax evasion
A Baltimore courtroom deal ends a kickback investigation that reached back to his days as county executive.
1985Member story · 1776 Club
Navy fighters force the hijackers' jet down in Sicily
The Egyptian airliner was bound for Tunisia when F-14s off the USS Saratoga boxed it in over the Mediterranean.
2002Member story · 1776 Club
House votes 296-133 to let Bush go to war in Iraq
Most Democrats vote no; six Republicans break ranks the other way.
2022Member story · 1776 Club
Bernanke wins the Nobel; a former Fed chair is honored for explaining why banks fail
Diamond and Dybvig share the prize for the models that explain why bank runs happen in the first place.
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