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Happy 250th birthday, US Marines.

Nov 10, 1775: The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas. Who became the first officer commissioned in the nascent Continental Marines.

On the night of 11 September 1781, Continental Marine Major Samuel Nicholas departed Philadelphia for a secret mission to Boston with Tench Francis, a Philadelphia merchant who had been trying to dispel accusations of British loyalty since the start of the Revolutionary War. Less than a week earlier, French Admiral Comte de Grasse had defeated the British at the Battle of Virginia Capes, and General George Washington’s army had been marching toward Yorktown for the last two weeks. The war was nearing its climax.

As the first Marine officer, Nicholas set precedents and established milestones for the service, all of which led to his secret adventure. However, this mission would prove to be the most impactful of Nicholas’ Revolutionary War exploits.

On 10 November 1775, Congress resolved to establish the Continental Marines. More specifically, Congress decided “that two Battalions of marines be raised, consisting of one Colonel, two Lieutenant Colonels, two Majors, and other officers as usual in other regiments.” Before commissioning the enumerated field-grade ranks, Congress approached Nicholas, who had no prior military service, about a commission as Captain of Marines. He accepted—and became the first officer of the Continental Marines on 28 November 1775.

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A Corps Legacy Is Born

Samuel Nicholas is commonly referred to as the first Commandant of the Marine Corps; however, the title did not exist until 1798. Regardless of labels, Nicholas was the senior officer of the Continental Marines throughout the war, led the ground combat element of the first amphibious raid conducted by the Navy and Marines, participated in the Navy’s first squadron attack, led the first Marine unit under an Army command, and held the equivalent of the first individual augment billet.

These are all important to the heritage and development of the U.S. Marine Corps, but perhaps more importantly, they prepared Nicholas for Robert Morris’ secret mission—which helped secure the financial backbone of the young nation.

America’s First Marine

November 10, 2025: a four-part docu series titled “MARINES” will be released on Netflix. The series provides an unprecedented, first-person narrative of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit during a deployment. The series offers an inside look at the demanding training and critical operations of America’s forward-deployed crisis response force in the Pacific. Probably a recruitment tactic for the coming new war in the Pacific.





November 10, 1865: Captain Henry Wirz, commander of the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, was hanged in Washington, D.C., the only Confederate officer executed as a war criminal.

In November 1863, Confederate officials selected Andersonville as the site of a new prison which was needed to contain the growing number of prisoners. Prisoners began arriving at the hastily constructed Andersonville facility in late February 1864. On March 27, 1864, the Swiss-born Hartmann Heinrich Wirz was assigned to command the prison at Andersonville, which was given the name Camp Sumter. Planned for 10,000 prisoners, by August 1864, Andersonville, an open stockade, held more than 33,000 Union prisoners. Adequate shelter, edible food, potable water, and medical supplies were lacking, and the population was decimated by starvation and infectious disease. Nearly 13,000 of the more than 45,000 prisoners sent to Andersonville from its opening in 1864 until its capture in April 1865, died there.

Henry Wirz and Andersonville Prison

Nov 10, 1929: Radio is being ruined by artificial slop! Listeners protest on canned music:




"Now, this is not the end. It is not even the beginning to the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
— Winston Churchill, November 10, 1942
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Nov 10, 1959: USS Triton (SSRN 586), the only dual reactor US Navy submarine, was commissioned with Navy Cross recipient Captain Edward "Ned" L. Beach in command.




Nov 10, 1967: The Moody Blues released 'Days of Future Passed' — a groundbreaking fusion of rock and orchestra. With “Nights in White Satin,” they helped invent progressive rock as we know it.




November 10, 1975: the 729-foot-long (222 m) freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior with the loss of the entire crew of 29. All vanished, their bodies have never been found. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes.

"The church bell chimed 'til it rang 29 times for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald."

Gordon Lightfoot changes Edmund Fitzgerald lyrics

Convinced by the evidence presented in an episode of the new Canadian made-for-TV documentary series Dive Detectives, airing on History Television Mar. 31, Gordon Lightfoot has changed the lyric of his 1976 hit, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, to remove the implication that human error played a part in the 1975 Lake Superior shipping tragedy in which 29 lives were lost.
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The traditional verse goes: “When supper time came the old cook came on deck /Saying ‘Fellows it’s too rough to feed ya’ /At 7 p.m. a main hatchway caved in /He said, ‘Fellas it's been good to know ya.”

Lightfoot’s lyrics have now been changed to: “When supper time came the old cook came on deck /Saying ‘Fellows it’s too rough to feed ya’ /At 7 p.m. it grew dark, it was then/He said, ‘Fellas it's been good to know ya’,” Lightfoot’s spokesperson said.

November 10, 1983: In NYC, Microsoft announces Windows 1.0 to the public.



The young geek, Bill Gates promised that Windows would ship by April of 1984. However, Windows 1.0 wouldn't actually ship until November 1985, which was version 1.01. Those were fun days/years!




High-Tech Wall Street - Is It Good for America? (TIME, Nov 10, 1986)




Nvidia market cap "everything bubble" is worth more than all of these companies combined:

1. Nike
2. Starbucks
3. Coca-Cola
4. McDonald’s
5. Hershey
6. Walmart
7. Costco
8. Bank of America
9. Spotify
10. Uber
11. Netflix
12. Visa
13. Ford
14. Denny’s
15. IBM
16. Disney
17. Verizon
18. FedEx

Nvidia is rapidily becoming the foundation of the entire AI economy. Scary! Let's hope they don't collapse the world like the Bronze Age!