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May 10, 1872 – Victoria Woodhull is nominated as the first woman candidate for U.S. president for the Equal Rights Party

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1875 – Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter, first woman granted a U.S. pilot’s license, first woman to fly across the English Channel (d. 1912)

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1869 – The Golden Spike is driven at Promontory Point, Utah signifying the completion of the transcontinental railroad even though there are no bridges spanning the Missouri River.

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1885 – During an attempted arrest bootlegger Ned Christie killed U. S. Marshal Dan Maples near Tahlequah, Oklahoma.