Also on this day: The U.S. Marines are organized under authority of the Continental Congress. Journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley finds Scottish missionary David Livingstone, who had not been heard from in years, near Lake Tanganyika in central Africa.
Hirohito is enthroned as Emperor of Japan. Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” on her CBS radio program.
Winston Churchill delivers a speech in London in which he says, “I have not become the King’s First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.” The U.S.
Marine Corps Memorial, depicting the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, is dedicated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Arlington, Va.
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