Monument erected in Monongah, West Virginia.

                                    The Monongah coal mine

The U.S. Marine Corps memorial, depicting the raising of the American
Flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, located in Arlington, VA.
Photographer Joe Rosenthal’s famous picture of the raising of the
American Flag on Iwo Jima by U.S. Marines, February 23, 1945.             

 

It was on this date in 1960 that Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay)
won his first professional fight. He beat Tunney Hunsaker in
6 rounds. Hunsaker was the Police Chief of Fayetteville,West
Virginia at the time.