November 10
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 .
- 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.
- 1928 - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 1972 - Shawn Green, baseball player
- 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
- 1444 - King Ladislaus III of Poland (or Ulaszlo I of Hungary) in the Battle of Varna
- 1865 - Henry Wirz, superintendent of Andersonville prison camp (executed)
- 1891 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet
- 1909 - Renee Vivien, poetess
- 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 -- listing of all days
