November 10

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November 10 in recent years

2008 (Monday)

2007 (Saturday)

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November 10 is the Template:Day/Totaldays Template:Ordinal/th day of the year (Template:Day/Totaldays Template:Ordinal/th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "[" days remaining until the end of the year.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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.
1520 - Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden.
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 - The United States Marine Corps was founded.
1847 - The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
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?"
1910 - The date of Thomas A. Davis' openning of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
1919 - The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota (convention ended on November 12).
1924 - Dion O'Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio's gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.
1928 - Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan, Emperor Showa.
1928 - Playing against Army at Yankee Stadium, Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne gives what is considered the greatest locker room speeches of all time by saying "Win one for the Gipper." The Fighting Irish would win the game 12-6.
1938 - Kate Smith, on her weekly radio show, sings Irving Berlin's God Bless America for the first time.
1938 - The death of the founder of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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.
1944 - Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands
1945 - Heavy battle in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
1951 - Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
1958 - The Hope Diamond was donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
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 with Resolution 4686).
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).
2006 - Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj assassinated in Colombo.
2007 - ¿Por qué no te callas? incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez.

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)
1480 - Bridget of York, English princess and nun (d. 1517)
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)
1620 - Ninon de l'Enclos, french courtesan and writer (d. 1705)
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)
1735 - Granville Sharp, English campaigner for the abolition of slavery (d. 1813)
1759 - Friedrich von Schiller, German writer (d. 1805)
1801 - Samuel Gridley Howe, American social reformer (d. 1876)
1801 - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872)
1810 - George Jennings Sanitary engineer (d. 1882)
1844 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (d. 1932)
1845 - Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1894)
1850 - Arthur Goring Thomas, English composer (d. 1892)
1868 - Gichin Funakoshi, father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo (d. 1957)
1871 - Winston Churchill, American novelist (d. 1947)
1878 - Cy Morgan, American baseball player (d. 1962)
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)
1895 - Mabel Normand, American silent actress (d. 1930)
1896 - Jimmie Dykes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
1906 - Josef Kramer, commandant of Bergen Belsen concentration camp (d. 1945)
1907 - Jane Froman, American actor and singer (d. 1980)
1909 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970)
1912 - Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (d. 1999)
1916 - Billy May, American composer, arranger and bandleader (d. 2004)
1918 - Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
1919 - Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Russian inventor
1919 - George Fenneman, American radio and television announcer (d. 1997)
1919 - Moise Tshombe, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1969)
1919 - François Périer, French actor (d. 2002)
1920 - Jennifer Holt, American actress (d. 1997)
1920 - Rafael del Pino, Spanish entrepreneur
1924 - Russell Johnson, American actor (Gilligan's Island)
1925 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
1928 - Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
1929 - Marilyn Bergman, American composer and songwriter
1932 - Don Henderson, English actor (d. 1997)
1932 - Roy Scheider, American actor
1933 - Ronald Evans, American astronaut (d. 1990)
1934 - Lucien Bianchi, Belgian racing driver (d. 1969)
1935 - Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist
1935 - Bernard Babior, American biochemist
1939 - Russell Means, Native American activist
1939 - Allan Moffat, Canadian-Australian race car driver
1940 - Screaming Lord Sutch, English musician and politician (d. 1999)
1941 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (d. 1985)
1942 - Robert F. Engle, American economist, Nobel laureate
1942 - Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss Federal Councilor
1943 - Saxby Chambliss, American politician
1944 - Silvestre Reyes, American politician
1944 - Sir Tim Rice, English lyricist
1945 - Donna Fargo, American singer
1946 - Roy Thomas Baker, English record producer
1947 - Greg Lake, British musician
1947 - Glen Buxton, American musician (Alice Cooper) (d. 1997)
1947 - Dave Loggins, American songwriter and singer
1948 - Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005)
1948 - Aaron Brown, American broadcast journalist
1948 - Hugh Moffatt, American songwriter
1949 - Ann Reinking, American dancer
1950 - Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (d. 2005)
1952 - Gerry DiNardo, American football coach
1954 - Mario Cipollina, American bass player (Huey Lewis & the News)
1955 - James Chapman, American novelist
1955 - Jack Clark, American baseball player
1955 - Roland Emmerich, German film producer and director
1956 - Mohsen Badawi, Egyptian entrepreneur, political activist and writer
1956 - Sinbad, American actor
1958 - Massimo Morsello, Italian singer
1958 - Brooks Williams, American musician
1958 - Stephen Herek, American film director
1959 - Linda Cohn, American sports reporter
1959 - Mackenzie Phillips, American actress
1960 - Neil Gaiman, English writer
1960 - Dan Hawkins, American College Football Coach
1961 - John Walton, English darts player
1961 - Rudolf Grimm, Austrian physics professor
1963 - Hugh Bonneville, English actor
1964 - Kenny Rogers, American baseball player
1964 - Magnús Scheving, Icelandic athlete
1965 - Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish racecar driver
1965 - Jamie Dixon, American basketball coach
1966 - Vanessa Angel, English actress
1968 - Steve Brookstein, English X Factor winner
1968 - Tracy Morgan, American actor/comedian
1969 - Ellen Pompeo, American actress
1969 - Faustino Asprilla, Colombian footballer
1969 - Jens Lehmann, German footballer
1970 - Warren G, American rapper
1970 - Freddy Loix, Belgian rally driver
1972 - Shawn Green, American 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, American baseball player
1978 - Eve, American rapper
1978 - Kyla Cole, Slovak adult actress
1980 - Troy Bell, American basketball player
1980 - Red Cordell, American television personality
1981 - Tony Blanco, American baseball player
1981 - Jason L. Dunham, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2004)
1981 - Alison Waite, American model and Playboy Playmate
1982 - Clayton Fortune, English footballer
1982 - Heather Matarazzo, American actress
1983 - Miranda Lambert, American singer
1983 - Craig Smith, American basketball player
1984 - Kendrick Perkins, American basketball player
1985 - Giovonnie Samuels, American television actress
1985 - Aftab Ahmed, Bangladeshi cricketer
1986 - Josh Peck, American Actor, best known for his role on Nickelodeon's Drake & Josh
1987 - Jessica Tovey, Australian actress