November 10
is the 314th day of the year (315th in
leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining.
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1444 -
Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King
Vladislaus III of Varna (aka
Ulaszlo I of Hungary and
Wladyslaw III of Poland) are crushed by the
Turks under Sultan
Murad II and Vladislaus is killed.
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1619 -
René Descartes has the
dreams that inspire his
Meditations on First Philosophy.
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1674 -
Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the
Treaty of Westminster,
Netherlands cedes
New Netherlands to
England.
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1766 - The last Colonial governor of
New Jersey,
William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed
Rutgers University).
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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.
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1792 -
The White House: Construction begins by placing of the cornerstone.
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1865 - Major
Henry Wirz, the superintendent of
a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is
hanged, becoming the only
American Civil War soldier
executed for
war crimes.
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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).
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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.
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1928 -
Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned the 124th
Emperor of Japan *
1938 -
Kate Smith, on her weekly radio show, sings
Irving Berlin's God Bless America for the first time.
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1940 -
Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the
Los Angeles office of the
FBI; his job is to report back information on
Hollywood "subversives".
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1942 -
World War II:
Germany invades
Vichy France following French Admiral
François Darlan agreement to an armistice with the
Allies in
North Africa.
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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.
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1969 -
National Educational Television (the predecessor to the
Public Broadcasting Service) in the
United States debuts the children's
television program
Sesame Street.
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1970 -
Vietnam War:
Vietnamization - For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of
American combat fatalities in
Southeast Asia.
* 1970 - Soviet Lunar probe
Lunokhod 1 launched.
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1971 - In
Cambodia,
Khmer Rouge forces attack the city
Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine
airplanes.
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1972 - Southern Airways Flight 49 from
Birmingham is
hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing 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.
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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).
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1989 - After ruling for 33 years ,
Bulgarian Communist Party leader
Todor Zhivkov is replaced by foreign minister
Petar Mladenov, who in
1990 changes the party's name to
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 -
WorldCom and
MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
* 1997 - A jury in
Fairfax, Virginia finds
Mir Aimal Kasi guilty of the murder of two
CIA employees in
1993.
* 1997 - The conviction of 19-year-old British
au pair Louise Woodward reduced from second-degree murder to
involuntary manslaughter and her sentence reduced from life in prison to
time served. She had been found guilty less than two weeks earlier in a baby-shaking death.
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2001 - The
National Alliance holds a protest outside the
Israeli Embassy in Washington, D. C. concerning the attacks of
September 11,
2001.
*
2004 -
Mozilla Firefox is released.
*
745 -
Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (d.
799)
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1341 -
Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d.
1408)
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1433 -
Charles, Duke of Burgundy (d.
1477)
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1483 -
Martin Luther, German protestant reformer (d.
1546)
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1565 -
Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d.
1646)
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1566 -
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (d.
1601)
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1577 -
Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist and politician (d.
1660)
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1668 -
Louis III, Prince of Condé (d.
1710)
* 1668 -
François Couperin, French composer (d.
1733)
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1683 -
George II of Great Britain (d.
1760)
*
1695 -
John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d.
1771)
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1697 -
William Hogarth, English artist (d.
1764)
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1710 -
Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (d.
1792)
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1728 -
Oliver Goldsmith, English playwright (d.
1774)
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1759 -
Friedrich von Schiller, German writer (d.
1805)
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1801 -
Samuel Gridley Howe, American social reformer (d.
1876)
* 1801 -
Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d.
1872)
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1845 - Sir
John Sparrow David Thompson, fourth
Prime Minister of Canada (d.
1894)
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1850 -
Arthur Goring Thomas, English composer
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1868 -
Gichin Funakoshi, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo (d.
1957)
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1871 -
Winston Churchill, American novelist (d.
1947)
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1878 -
Cy Morgan, baseball player (d.
1962)
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1879 -
Vachel Lindsay, American poet (d.
1931)
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1880 -
Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (d.
1959)
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1887 -
Arnold Zweig, German author (d.
1968)
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1888 -
Andrei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (d.
1972)
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1889 -
Claude Rains, English actor (d.
1967)
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1893 -
John P. Marquand, American writer (d.
1960)
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1895 -
John Knudsen Northrop, American airplane manufacturer (d.
1981)
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1896 -
Jimmie Dykes, baseball player and manager (d.
1976)
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1907 -
Jane Froman, American actor and singer (d.
1980)
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1909 -
Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (d.
1970)
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1912 -
Birdie Tebbetts, baseball player and manager (d.
1999)
*
1918 -
Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
1919 -
Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Russian inventor
* 1919 -
Moise Tshombe, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d.
1969)
*
1920 -
Rafael del Pino, Spanish entrepreneur
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1925 -
Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d.
1984)
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1928 -
Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
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1932 -
Roy Scheider, American actor
*
1935 -
Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian astrophisicist
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1940 -
Russell Means, American activist
* 1940 -
Screaming Lord Sutch, English musician
*
1942 -
Robert F. Engle, American economist,
Nobel laureate* 1942 -
Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss Federal Councilor
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1944 -
Silvestre Reyes, American politician
* 1944 - Sir
Tim Rice, English lyricist
*
1947 -
Greg Lake, British musician
* 1947 -
Glen Buxton, American musician (
Alice Cooper) (d.
1997)
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1949 -
Ann Reinking, American dancer
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1952 -
Gerry DiNardo, American football coach
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1955 -
Jack Clark, baseball player
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1956 -
Sinbad, American actor
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1958 -
Massimo Morsello, Italian singer
* 1958 -
Brooks Williams, American musician
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1959 -
Linda Cohn, American sports reporter
* 1959 -
Mackenzie Phillips, American actress
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1960 -
Neil Gaiman, English writer
*
1964 -
Kenny Rogers, baseball player
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1965 -
Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish racecar driver
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1969 -
Jens Lehmann, German footballer
* 1969 -
Faustino Asprilla, Colombian footballer
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1970 -
Warren G, American rapper
*
1972 -
Shawn Green, American baseball player
*
1973 -
Patrik Berger, Czech footballer
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1975 -
Jim Adkins, American musician
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1976 -
Steffen Iversen, Norwegian footballer
* 1976 -
Shefki Kuqi, Finnish footballer
*
1977 -
Brittany Murphy, American actress
* 1977 -
Matt Cepicky, American baseball player
*
1978 -
Eve, American rapper (
Sunil)
*
1978 -
Kyla Cole Slovak adult actress
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1980 -
Troy Bell Basketball player
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1981 -
Tony Blanco, American baseball player
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1983 -
Miranda Lambert, American singer
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1983 -
Craig Smith, American basketball player
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1984 -
Kendrick Perkins, American basketball player
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1985 -
Giovonnie Samuels, American television actress
*
1987 -
Mason Aguirre, American snowboarder
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627 -
Justus,
Archbishop of Canterbury*
1444 - King
Vladislaus III of Varna is killed in battle (b.
1424)
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1549 -
Pope Paul III (b.
1468)
*
1596 -
Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b.
1530)
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1605 -
Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (b.
1522)
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1617 -
Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer
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1624 -
Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (b.
1573)
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1644 -
Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b.
1579)
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1673 -
Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland (b.
1640)
*
1727 -
Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (b.
1659)
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1728 -
Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admirals (b.
1661)
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1772 -
Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b.
1724)
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1777 -
Cornstalk, Shawnee chief
*
1808 -
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (b.
1724)
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1891 -
Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, (b.
1854)
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1909 -
Renee Vivien, American poet (b.
1877)
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1912 -
Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b.
1863)
*
1938 -
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and the first
President of Turkey (b.
1881)
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1982 -
Leonid Brezhnev, ruler of the Soviet Union (b.
1906)
*
1985 -
Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish hockey player (b.
1959)
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1990 -
Aurelio Monteagudo, baseball player (b.
1943)
* 1990 -
Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b.
1914)
*
1991 -
William Afflis, wrestler (b.
1929)
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1994 -
Carmen McRae, American singer (b.
1920)
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1995 -
Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and activist (b.
1941)
*
2001 -
Ken Kesey, American author (b.
1935)
*
2003 -
Canaan Banana, first
President of Zimbabwe (b.
1936)
* 2003 -
Irv "Kup" Kupcinet, American columnist and television personality (b.
1912)
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R.C. Saints -
Pope Leo I the Great
* Also see
November 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)* Ancient
Latvia -
Martini*
Turkey -
Day of Remembrance of Ataturk*
Russia - Day of
Militsiya (analogue of
police in Russia)
*
United States Marine Corps Birthday
*
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