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November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap
years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days
remaining.
Events
- 1674 - Anglo-Dutch War: As
provided in the Treaty of Westminster,
Netherlands cedes New
Netherlands to England.
- 1766 - The last Colonial governor of New
Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College
(later renamed Rutgers University).
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress passes a resolution creating the Continental Marines (later renamed the United States Marine Corps) to serve as landing troops
for the recently created Continental Navy (the Marines were disbanded at end of war in April of 1783 but were reformed on July 11, 1798).
- 1871 - Henry Morton
Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David
Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, and greets him saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
- 1919 - The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota (convention ended on November
12).
- 1926 - In San Francisco, California, a necrophiliac serial killer named Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim,
a boardinghouse landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds.
- 1928 - Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned
the 124th Emperor of Japan
- 1938 - On the eve of Armistice
Day, Kate Smith sings Irving Berlin's God Bless America for the
first time on her weekly radio show.
- 1942 - World War II: In violation
of a 1940 armistice, Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan agreement to an armistice with the Allies in
North Africa.
- 1951 - Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
- 1954 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC
War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington
National Cemetery.
- 1969 - National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.
- 1970 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - For the first time in five years, an entire week ended with no
reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
- 1971 - In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine airplanes.
- 1975 - The 729-foot-long freighter (then, the largest ship on the Great Lakes) SS
Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm 17 miles from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew
on board.
- 1975 - United Nations Resolution 3379: With a vote of 72 to 35 (with 32
abstentions), the United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution
equating Zionism with racism (the
resolution was repealed in December 1991).
- 1989 - After 35 years of communist rule
in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist
Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by hitherto Prime Minister
Petre Mladenov who changes
the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist
Party.
- 1995 - In Nigeria, playwright and
environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from the
Movement for
the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government forces.
- 1997 - Telcoms WorldCom and MCI announce a US$37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history).
- 1997 - A jury in Fairfax, Virginia finds Mir Aimal Kasi guilty of the murder
of two CIA employees in 1993.
- 2084 - A transit of Earth from Mars will be visible to
hypothetical future Mars colonists.
Births
- 745 - Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (d. 799)
- 1341 - Henry Percy Northumberland,
English statesman (d. 1408)
- 1483 - Martin Luther, a leader
of the Protestant Reformation (d. 1546)
- 1566 or 1567 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex,
English soldier (d. 1601)
- 1668 - François
Couperin, French composer (d. 1733)
- 1697 - William Hogarth,
artist (d. 1764)
- 1728 - Oliver Goldsmith,
playwright (d. 1774)
- 1759 - Friedrich von
Schiller, writer (d. 1805)
- 1801 - Samuel Gridley
Howe, American social reformer (d. 1876)
- 1845 - Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada
- 1879 - Vachel Lindsay,
American poet (d. 1931)
- 1887 - Arnold Zweig, author (d.
1968)
- 1889 - Claude Rains, actor (d.
1967)
- 1890 - Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward, car manufacturer (d. 1963)
- 1890 - Eli Lissitsky, American painter (d. 1941)
- 1893 - John P. Marquand,
American writer (d. 1960)
- 1909 - Paweł
Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970)
- 1919 - Moise Tshombe, Prime
Minister of the Democratic Republic of
the Congo (d. 1969)
- 1919 - Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Soviet inventor,
AK-47
- 1925 - Richard Burton (actor) (d. 1984)
- 1928 - Ennio Morricone,
composer
- 1932 - Roy Scheider, actor
- 1935 - Igor
Dmitrievich Novikov, theoretical astrophisicist, cosmologist
- 1940 - Screaming Lord
Sutch, musician, founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party
- 1940 - Russell Means, Native American activist
- 1942 - Hans-Rudolf Merz,
elected member of the Swiss
Federal Council
- 1944 - Sir Tim Rice, composer
- 1947 - David Loggins, musician
- 1948 - Greg Lake, musician
- 1949 - Ann Reinking, actress, dancer, choreographer
- 1956 - Sinbad, actor,
comedian
- 1959 - Linda Cohn, sports anchor
- 1959 - Mackenzie
Phillips, actress
- 1960 - Neil Gaiman, science fiction writer
- 1965 - Eddie Irvine, Formula One driver
- 1977 - Brittany Murphy,
actress
- 1979 - Eve, singer
- 1985 - Giovonnie
Samuels, television actress
Deaths
- 461 - Majorian, Roman Emperor
- 1241 - Pope Celestine
IV
- 1549 - Pope Paul III
- 1865 - Henry Wirz, superintendent of Andersonville prison camp (executed)
- 1891 - Arthur Rimbaud,
poet
- 1938 - Mustafa
Kemal Ataturk, founder of Turkey
- 1948 - Vincent
Schiavelli, actor
- 1981 - Abel Gance, film writer,
director, producer, actor
- 1982 - Leonid Brezhnev,
leader of the Soviet Union
- 1992 - Chuck Connors, actor,
baseball player
- 1994 - Carmen McRae, jazz singer
- 1995 - Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian playwright and environmental activist (executed)
- 1998 - Hal Newhouser, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1921)
- 2000 - Adamantios Androutsopoulos, former Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
- 2001 - Ken Kesey, author, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- 2002 - Gert Westphal, actor, reader
Holidays and observances
November 9 - November 11
- October 10 - December 10
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