Win One For The Gipper, Leonid Brezhnev Dead, Free Bulgaria

November 10: On This Progressive Day

Playing against Army at Yankee Stadium, Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne gives what is considered the greatest locker room speeches of all time by saying "Win one for the Gipper." (1928)

Fall of the Communist regime in Bulgaria (1989)

President B. Hussein Obama gives a workplace-violence speech at Fort Hood for the victims of jihadi terrorist Major Nidal Malik Hasan (2009)

At Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George's County, Maryland, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 105th round of golf as POTUS (2012)

b: Russell Means (1939); d: Arthur Rimbaud (1891), Leonid Brezhnev (1982), Norman Mailer (2007)

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