Happening on November 10th:
1775-- The U.S. marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress.
1871-- Journalist-explorer Henry Stanley found Scottish missionary David Livingston in Africa.
1919-- The American Legion held its first convention in Minneapolis.
1938-- Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on her CBS radio program.
1941-- Winston Churchill delivered a speech in London in which he said, "I have not become the King's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire."
1954-- The Iwo Jima Memorial, inspired by the famous Associated Press photograph of the Marines raising the U.S. flag over Mount Suribachi during World War II, was dedicated by President Dwight Eisenhower in Arlington, Virginia. Marine birthday, you know.
And Some More. --DaCoot
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