On This Day
1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations[11] through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, armor, artillery, aerial and special operations forces. The U.S. Marine Corps is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.
The Marine Corps has been part of the U.S. Department of the Navy since 30 June 1834 with its sister service, the United States Navy.[12] The USMC operates installations on land and aboard sea-going amphibious warfare ships around the world. Additionally, several of the Marines’ tactical aviation squadrons, primarily Marine Fighter Attack squadrons, are also embedded in Navy carrier air wings and operate from the aircraft carriers.[13]
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.[14] In the Pacific theater of World War II the Corps took the lead in a massive campaign of amphibious warfare, advancing from island to island.[15][16][17] As of 2017, the USMC has around 182,000 active duty members and some 38,500 personnel in Reserve.[3]
Born On This Day
1874 – Idabelle Smith Firestone, American composer and songwriter (d. 1954)
Idabelle Smith Firestone (November 10, 1874 – July 7, 1954) was an American composer and songwriter.[1]
Biography
She was born in Minnesota City, Minnesota on November 10, 1874.[2][3] She was educated at Alma College, Ontario. Her father, George, held the patent to a flour milling process.
On 20 November 1895, she married Harvey Samuel Firestone, who had begun the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company five years earlier.[4] She was the mother of Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., and Leonard Firestone, the grandmother of Brooks Firestone, and the great-grandmother of William Clay Ford, Jr., Andrew Firestone, and Nick Firestone.
She joined the ASCAP in 1948. Her compositions include “If I Could Tell You” (the theme of “Voice of Firestone” programs), “In My Garden”, “You Are the Song in My Heart”, “Do You Recall?”, “Melody of Love” and “Bluebirds”.[5]
She died on July 7, 1954 at age 79.[1]
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