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50 years ago: November 10, 1976
On the first of three days, almost 5,000 Blair County residents were inoculated by the PA Health Dept. with the Swine Flu vaccine at Penn State Altoona, Mrs. Padget Mignogna coordinator.
25 years ago: November 10, 2001
Ronald McCleary of Hollidaysburg, a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War, received an honorary graduation diploma from Hollidaysburg Area High. He had also visited Korea earlier in the year and the students there honored him when they found out he was a Korean War veteran.
10 years ago: November 10, 2016
A veterans memorial obelisk that stood across Veterans Memorial Highway from the Allegro Restaurant was moved across the highway to a more suitable location by two other memorials by the PA National Guard Veterans Association and 298th Army Reserve unit in Altoona, an idea of Ted Tedora.
-- Compiled by Tim Doyle
World history
Today is Tuesday, Nov. 10, the 314th day of 2026. There are 51 days left in the year.
Today's highlight in history:
On Nov. 10, 1898, a mob of up to 2,000 white supremacists killed dozens of African Americans in Wilmington, North Carolina, burned Black-owned businesses and forced the mayor, police chief and aldermen to resign at gunpoint before installing their own mayor and city council in what became known as the "Wilmington Coup."
On this date:
– In 1775, the Continental Congress established the Continental Marines, later known as the U.S. Marine Corps.
– In 1954, the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, depicting the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, was dedicated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Arlington, Virginia.
– In 1969, the children's educational program "Sesame Street" made its debut on National Educational Television (now PBS).
– In 1975, the Great Lakes freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a severe storm in Lake Superior, claiming the lives of all 29 crewmembers.
-- The Associated Press