Junior Van Noy received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroic leadership during fighting in New Guinea, when he stayed at his machine gun post despite being wounded, and slaughtered half of the attacking Japanese.  

On October 17, 1781, a British office waiving a white handkerchief approached the besieging forces at Yorktown to ask the French and Americans for terms of surrender. 

Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest while campaigning for the presidency in 1912, but, concluding that the bullet had not hit his lung because he was not coughing up blood, he went on to deliver a ninety speech before seeking medical attention. 

Mary Ludwig Hayes, known as Molly Pitcher, who fought in her husband’s place after he was shot down at the Battle of Monmouth in 1778, swabbing and loading Continental Army cannons during the American victory. 

Garrett Morgan, an African American inventor, received a patent for the first gas mask ever created.

Happy birthday to the United States Navy!

Mary Ludwig Hayes, known as Molly Pitcher, who fought in her husband’s place after he was shot down at the Battle of Monmouth in 1778, swabbing and loading Continental Army cannons during the American victory, was born on this day.

Jack Pendleton, a Staff Sergeant from Yakima Washington with the 30th Infantry Division, earned the Medal of Honor posthumously by volunteering to lead a squad against a German machine gun nest. Despite being wounded, he pushed on to silence the gun.

United States Navy Admiral Norman Scott received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his leadership during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, when American forces defeated the Japanese attempts to reinforce their Solomon troops.