George Gipp (February 18, 1895 – December 14, 1920)

The Notre Dame football team, inspired by late gridiron star
George Gipp and the most famous halftime pep talk in sports
history, rallied to upset undefeated Army in front of 85,000
fans at Yankee Stadium on this day in history, Nov. 10, 1928.

Legendary head coach Knute Rockne’s impassioned "Win one
for the Gipper" speech echoed through the decades — far
beyond the football field — and entered American cultural,
political and military lore. 
(FOX NEWS)

Knute Kenneth Rockne
(March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931)

Newest Air Force stealth bomber, the $750M B-21 Raider,
takes to the air for the time. 

The patent office awards U.S. Patent No. 743,801 to a
Birmingham, Alabama woman named Mary Anderson
for her “window cleaning device for electric cars and
other vehicles to remove snow, ice or sleet from the
window.”

Though mechanical windshield wipers were standard
equipment in passenger cars by around 1913, Anderson
never profited from the invention.

The history of the Marine Corps began when two battalions
of Continental Marines were formed on 10 November 1775
in Philadelphia as a service branch of infantry troops
capable of fighting both at sea and on shore.