1814 - Marines defended Washington, DC, at Bladensburg, MD, against the British.
1967 - Staff Sergeant Jimmie E. Howard is awarded the Medal of Honor for actions taken after being surrounded at Hill 488. (Read Leatherneck article detailing Howard's actions during the battle.)
1968 - PFC James Anderson, Jr., was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for "unhesitatingly and with complete disregard for his own personal safety," grasped an enemy grenade, "pulled it to his chest and curled around it as it went off," thereby saving his comrades. This was the first Medal of Honor presented to an African-American Marine.