Obverse of the coin

The Fort Vancouver Centennial half dollar is a commemorative fifty-cent piece struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1925 in honor of the founding of Fort Vancouver in present-day Vancouver, Washington. The obverse of the commemorative coin (pictured) depicts John McLoughlin, who built the fort for the Hudson's Bay Company in 1825. The reverse shows an armed frontiersman standing in front of the fort. Representative Albert Johnson of Washington state was able to get Congress to authorize a coin for Fort Vancouver's centennial celebrations, and President Calvin Coolidge signed the authorizing act on February 24, 1925. Laura Gardin Fraser was engaged to design the coin on the recommendation of the United States Commission of Fine Arts. The coins were struck at the San Francisco Mint, and then were flown to Washington state by airplane as a publicity stunt. They sold badly, and are valuable today since few of the coins survive. (Full article...)

Ranjit Vilas Palace

• ... that Wankaner's Ranjit Vilas Palace (pictured) in Gujarat, India, features Venetian Gothic, Italianate, Mughal and Rajput styles?
• ... that Tova Friedman is a Holocaust survivor who now posts videos of her life and survival on TikTok?
• ... that the ampullae of Lorenzini enable sharks to sense electric fields?
• ... that Gilbert Bundy killed himself on the 12th anniversary of a traumatic experience as a war artist at the Battle of Tarawa?
• ... that the margins of the Hours of Charles the Noble contain 180 depictions of musical instruments, providing a representative overview of medieval instruments?
• ... that Cleo Damianakes's 1920s book dust jacket designs "made sex respectable", but Hemingway did not like the "large misplaced breasts" on A Farewell to Arms?
• ... that The Summer Hikaru Died went from drawings on a Twitter account to receiving three times more orders than copies available in its first print run?
• ... that a doctor told Howie Shanks that he only had a few weeks to live, but he lived another 31 years?

Annie Ernaux

• Annie Ernaux (pictured) is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• An attack at a nursery in Nong Bua Lamphu province, Thailand, leaves 36 victims, mostly children, dead.
• Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on human evolutionary genetics.
• Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw and Kenyan Amos Kipruto win the London Marathon women's and men's races.

October 10: Thanksgiving in Canada (2022)

Spiro Agnew

• 680 – Husayn ibn Ali, a grandson of Muhammad, was killed at the Battle of Karbala by the forces of Yazid I, whom Husayn had refused to recognize as caliph.
• 1760 – In a treaty with Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname gained territorial autonomy.
• 1846 – English astronomer William Lassell discovered Triton, the largest moon of Neptune.
• 1973 – U.S. vice president Spiro Agnew (pictured) resigned after being charged with tax evasion.
• 1992 – After 20 years of construction, Vidyasagar Setu, the longest cable-stayed bridge in India, was opened, joining Kolkata and Howrah.