President College ordered the United States Marine Corps to defend the Postal Service against robbery by organized criminals.   

Donuts! The first donuts were created, fired by Salvation Army workers supporting the American troops fighting in France.  

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. 

Happy birthday to the United States Navy!

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. 

Casimir Pulaski, the American Revolution war hero and cavalry commander, was killed on this day during a cavalry charge at the Battle of Savannah. 

Neel Kearby was the first American Air Force pilot to receive the Medal of Honor. A top American ace, he had 22 aerial victories in a P-47. Kearby shot down six Japanese planes in one day on October 11, 1943, the action which earned him the Medal of Honor. Sadly, Kearby was killed over Wewak a year later.