1. On September 10, 1988, the first National AIDS Walk was held in Washington, D.C., which inspired the creation of similar walks across the country.

2. In 1930, Maryland Governor Albert Ritchie and his family set out on a six-month, 10,000-mile road trip across the United States to promote tourism to the state.

3. On September 10, 1814, an estimated 4,000 British troops landed at North Point, Maryland, initiating the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812.

4. In 1977, Maryland native and NASA astronaut Richard F. Gordon Jr. served as the command module pilot on the Apollo 12 mission, the second manned mission to land on the moon.

5. On September 10, 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan visited Baltimore's Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, the site that inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner" during the War of 1812.