November 10 - Definition and Overview

November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining.

Events

• 1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Ladislaus III of Poland (or Ulaszlo I of Hungary) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Ladislaus is killed.
• 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 .
• 1865 - Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, was hanged, and became the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
• 1871 - Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika 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, Mrs. William Edmonds.
• 1926 - Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan
• 1938 - Kate Smith sings Irving Berlin's God Bless America for the first time on her weekly radio show.
• 1940 - Walt Disney begins serving as a informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood "subversives".
• 1942 - World War II: 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.
• 1970 - Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 launched.
• 1971 - In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine airplanes.
• 1972 - Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham is hijacked and, at one point, threatened to be crashed into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
• 1975 - The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
• 1975 - United Nations Resolution 3379: 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 former 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.
• 1997 - Seymore Hersh's book "The Dark Side of Camelot" is published; it includes allegations of explicit photos of John F. Kennedy with various sex partners having been taken and brought to a Washington, D.C. gallery for framing by a Secret Service agent.
• 2004 - John Ashcroft and Don Evans resign their posts as U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Secretary of Commerce respectively.

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
• 1871 - Winston Churchill, American novelist (d. 1947)
• 1879 - Vachel Lindsay, American poet (d. 1931)
• 1887 - Arnold Zweig, author (d. 1968)
• 1888 - Andrei Tupolev, aircraft designer
• 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)
• 1896 - Jimmy Dykes, Major League Baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
• 1909 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970)
• 1912 - Birdie Tebbetts, Major League Baseball catcher and manager (d. 1999)
• 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 - Silvestre Reyes, American politician
• 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
• 1964 - Kenny Rogers, baseball player
• 1965 - Eddie Irvine, Formula One driver
• 1972 - Shawn Green, baseball player
• 1977 - Brittany Murphy, actress
• 1979 - Eve, rapper
• 1985 - Giovonnie Samuels, television actress

Deaths

• 1909 - Renee Vivien, Poet, (b. 1877)
• 1938 - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of Turkey (b. 1881)
• 1990 - Aurelio Monteagudo, Major League Baseball player (b. 1943)
• 1995 - Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer, activist
• 2001 - Ken Kesey, American author
• 2003 - Canaan Banana, first president of independent Zimbabwe
• 2003 - Irv "Kup" Kupcinet, columnist, television personality

Holidays and observances

• Ancient Latvia - Martini

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