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5 Things to Know Today in Mount Vernon

Check out these five things to know today.

Lisa Picardi, Neighbor
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  • Tomorrow is . All activities are free and open to everyone.
  • Registration is open for the  offered by the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary from July 11-14 in Alexandria.
  • Today in 1775, the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought outside of Boston during the Revolutionary War.
  • Today in 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived from France by ship.
  • Tupac Shakur is currently one of the top Google Trends. Yesterday would have been his 40th birthday and recently a prison inmate confessed to shooting him during a robbery in 1994. Tupac died in 1996 from another shooting.
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