November 10

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 Jean Francois 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.

Births

• 1341 - Henry Percy Northumberland, English statesman († 1408)
• 1483 - Martin Luther, a leader of the Protestant Reformation († 1546)
• 1566 or 1567 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English soldier († 1601)
• 1668 - Francois Couperin, French composer († 1733)
• 1697 - William Hogarth, artist († 1764)
• 1728 - Oliver Goldsmith, playwright († 1774)
• 1759 - Friedrich von Schiller, writer († 1805)
• 1801 - Samuel Gridley Howe, American social reformer († 1876)
• 1845 - Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada
• 1879 - Vachel Lindsay, American poet († 1931)
• 1887 - Arnold Zweig, author († 1968)
• 1889 - Claude Rains, actor († 1967)
• 1890 - Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward, car manufacturer († 1963)
• 1890 - Eli Lissitsky, American painter († 1941)
• 1893 - John P. Marquand, American writer († 1960)
• 1909 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian († 1970)
• 1919 - Moise Tshombe, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo († 1969)
• 1919 - Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Soviet inventor, AK-47
• 1925 - Richard Burton (actor) († 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 - Mackenzie Phillips, actress
• 1960 - Neil Gaiman, science fiction writer
• 1965 - Eddie Irvine, Formula One driver
• 1977 - Brittany Murphy, actress
• 1979 - Eve, singer

Deaths

• 461 - Majorian, Roman Emperor
• 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 star
• 2001 - Ken Kesey, author, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• 2002 - Gert Westphal, actor, reader

Holidays and Observances

• Ancient Latvia - Martini

See Also

November 9 - November 11 - October 10 - December 10 -- listing of all days

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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