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 .
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.
1926 - 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 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 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 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 Communications 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 )
1342 - Henry Percy Northumberland , English statesman (d. 1408 )
1433 - Charles, Duke of Burgundy , known as "the Bold" (d. 1477 )
1483 - Martin Luther , German leader of the Protestant Reformation (d. 1546 )
1566 or 1567 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex 1601 )
1668 - François Couperin , French composer (d. 1733 )
1697 - William Hogarth , English artist (d. 1764 )
1728 - Oliver Goldsmith , English playwright (d. 1774 )
1759 - Friedrich von Schiller , German 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
1959 - Carmen Ramos , spanish señorita
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
627 - Justus , Archbishop of Canterbury
1891 - Arthur Rimbaud , French poet, (b. 1854 )
1909 - Renee Vivien , poet, (b. 1877 )
1912 - Louis Cyr , Canadian strongman (b. 1863 )
1938 - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , founder of Turkey (b. 1881 )
1990 - Aurelio Monteagudo , Major League Baseball player (b. 1943 )
1995 - Ken Saro-Wiwa , Nigerian writer and activist
2001 - Ken Kesey , American author
2003 - Canaan Banana , first president of independent Zimbabwe
2003 - Irv "Kup" Kupcinet , columnist, television personality
Holidays and observances
External links
November 9 - November 11 - October 10 - December 10 -- listing of all days
