'''November_10''' is the 314th day of the year (315th in Leap_years) in the Gregorian_Calendar, with 51 days remaining.
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== 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.
*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 Petur_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 - Telcoms 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 - Seymour_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.
*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.
*2005 - The New Cybermen were revealed on the BBC's Website.
==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)
*1871 - Winston Churchill, American novelist (d. 1947)
*1879 - Vachel_Lindsay, American poet (d. 1931)
*1880 - Jacob_Epstein, American-born scuptor (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)
*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)
*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
*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, Irish race car driver
*1969 - Jens_Lehmann, German goalkeeper (football)
*1972 - Shawn_Green, baseball player
*1973 - Patrik_Berger, Czech footballer
*1976 - Steffen_Iversen, Norwegian footballer
*1976 - Shefki_Kuqi, Finnish footballer
*1977 - Brittany_Murphy, American actress
*1978 - Eve, American rapper (Sunil)
*1985 - Ricki-Lee_Coulter, Australian singer
*1985 - Giovonnie_Samuels, American television actress
*1987 - (Akshat Jain), Indian Singer-born star
==Deaths==
*627 - Justus, Archbishop_of_Canterbury
*1444 - King Wladislaus_III_of_Poland (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)
*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
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