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October 10

1845 – The United States Naval Academy opens in Annapolis, Maryland, with 50 midshipmen students

and seven professors. Known as the Naval School until 1850, the curriculum included mathematics and navigation, gunnery and steam, chemistry,

English, natural philosophy, and French.

AP US HistoryThis Day in American History

October 10

1957 – The Milwaukee Braves defeat the New York Yankees to win their first World Series since

1914. (They played in Boston then; the team moved to Wisconsin in 1953.) No one expected the Braves to beat the Bombers: After all, the New York team

had already won the championship 21 times.

AP US HistoryThis Day in American History

October 10

1973 - Less than a year before Richard M. Nixon's resignation as president of the United States, Spiro

Agnew becomes the first U.S. vice president to resign in disgrace. The same day, he pleaded no

contest to a charge of federal income tax evasion in exchange for the dropping of charges of political

corruption.

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October 10

1991 – Former U.S. postal worker Joseph Harris shoots two former co-workers to death at the post office in Ridgewood, New Jersey. The night before, Harris had killed his former supervisor, Carol Ott,

with a three-foot samurai sword, and shot her fiance, Cornelius Kasten, in their home.