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 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.
1619 - René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
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, is hanged, becoming 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.
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.
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".
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 ends 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, 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.
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 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.
2001 - The National Alliance holds a protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D. C. concerning the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Births

745 - Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (d. 799)
1341 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408)
1433 - Charles, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1477)
1483 - Martin Luther, German protestant reformer (d. 1546)
1565 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646)
1566 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (d. 1601)
1577 - Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist and politician (d. 1660)
1668 - Louis III, Prince of Condé (d. 1710)
1668 - François Couperin, French composer (d. 1733)
1683 - George II of Great Britain (d. 1760)
1695 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)
1697 - William Hogarth, English artist (d. 1764)
1710 - Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (d. 1792)
1728 - Oliver Goldsmith, English playwright (d. 1774)
1759 - Friedrich von Schiller, German writer (d. 1805)
1801 - Samuel Gridley Howe, American social reformer (d. 1876)
1801 - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872)
1845 - Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1894)
1850 - Arthur Goring Thomas, English composer
1868 - Gichin Funakoshi, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo (d. 1957)
1871 - Winston Churchill, American novelist (d. 1947)
1879 - Vachel Lindsay, American poet (d. 1931)
1880 - Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (d. 1959)
1887 - Arnold Zweig, German author (d. 1968)
1888 - Andrei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1972)
1889 - Claude Rains, English actor (d. 1967)
1893 - John P. Marquand, American writer (d. 1960)
1895 - John Knudsen Northrop, American airplane manufacturer (d. 1981)
1896 - Jimmy Dykes, baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
1907 - Jane Froman, American actor and singer (d. 1980)
1909 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970)
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, one of the wealthiest men in the world
1925 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
1928 - Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
1932 - Roy Scheider, American actor
1935 - Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian astrophisicist
1940 - Russell Means, American activist
1940 - Screaming Lord Sutch, English musician
1942 - Robert F. Engle, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss Federal Councilor
1944 - Silvestre Reyes, American politician
1944 - Sir Tim Rice, English lyricist
1947 - Greg Lake, British musician
1947 - Glen Buxton, American guitarist (Alice Cooper) (d. 1997)
1949 - Ann Reinking, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
1952 - Gerry DiNardo, Former American football player and head coach
1956 - Sinbad, American actor and comedian
1958 - Massimo Morsello, Italian singer and activist
1958 - Brooks Williams, American musician
1959 - Linda Cohn, American sports reporter
1959 - Mackenzie Phillips, American actress
1960 - Neil Gaiman, English writer
1964 - Kenny Rogers, baseball player
1965 - Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish racecar driver
1969 - Jens Lehmann, German footballer
1969 - Faustino Asprilla, Colombian footballer
1970 - Warren G, American rapper
1972 - Shawn Green, baseball player
1973 - Patrik Berger, Czech footballer
1975 - Jim Adkins, American musician
1976 - Steffen Iversen, Norwegian footballer
1976 - Shefki Kuqi, Finnish footballer
1977 - Brittany Murphy, American actress
1977 - Matt Cepicky, Professional baseball player
1978 - Eve, American rapper (Sunil)
1978 - Kyla Cole Slovak glamour model and pornstar.
1981 - Tony Blanco, Baseball player
1983 - Miranda Lambert, American singer
1985 - Giovonnie Samuels, American television actress
1987 - Mason Aguirre, American snowboarder

Deaths

627 - Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury
1444 - King Vladislaus III of Varna is killed in battle (b. 1424)
1549 - Pope Paul III (b. 1468)
1596 - Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)
1605 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (b. 1522)
1617 - Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer
1624 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (b. 1573)
1644 - Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b. 1579)
1673 - Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland (b. 1640)
1727 - Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (b. 1659)
1728 - Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admirals (b. 1661)
1772 - Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
1777 - Cornstalk, Shawnee chief
1808 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (b. 1724)
1891 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, (b. 1854)
1909 - Renee Vivien, American poet (b. 1877)
1912 - Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and the first President of Turkey (b. 1881)
1982 - Leonid Brezhnev, ruler of the Soviet Union (b. 1906)
1985 - Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish hockey player (b. 1959)
1990 - Aurelio Monteagudo, baseball player (b. 1943)
1990 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914)
1994 - Carmen McRae, American singer (b. 1920)
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)

Holidays and observances

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

External links

BBC: On This Day

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

Gourt Home::Gourt :: November 10

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