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-- card: 56652 from stack: in.0
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May 10
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In 1774, Louis XVI ascended the throne of France.
In 1775, Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured the British held fortress at Ticonderoga, N.Y.
In 1818, American patriot Paul Revere died in Boston.
In 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, making the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
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Actress Nancy Walker (1921)
TV and radio personality Gary Owens (1936)
Singer Donovan (1946)
Olympic medalist skiers Phil Mahre and Steve Mahre
- twin brothers - (1957)
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"It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull."
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H.L. Mencken, American author and journalist (1880-1956)