November 10Birthdays & History

On this day: November 10 in history

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1. 474Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.Europe
2. 937Ten Kingdoms: Li Bian usurps the throne and deposes Emperor Yang Pu. The Wu State is replaced by Li (now called "Xu Zhigao"), who becomes the first ruler of Southern Tang.Asia
3. 1202Fourth Crusade: Despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia).Europe
4. 1293Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking the throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana.Asia
5. 1444Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Władysław III of Poland (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Władysław III of Varna) are defeated by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Władysław is killed.EuropeMiddle East
6. 1599Åbo Bloodbath: Fourteen noblemen who opposed Duke Charles are decapitated in the Old Great Square of Turku (Swedish: Åbo) for their involvement in the War against Sigismund.Europe
7. 1659Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh.Asia
8. 1674Third Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherland to England.Europe
9. 1702English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War.Europe
10. 1766The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).North America
11. 1775The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.North America
12. 1793A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette.Europe
13. 1821Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which led to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia.Latin AmericaEurope
14. 1847The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.Europe
15. 1865Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes.North America
16. 1871Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"Africa
17. 1898White supremacists seized power and massacred black Americans during the Wilmington massacre, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.North America
18. 1910The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.North America
19. 1918The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.OceaniaNorth AmericaEurope
20. 1939Finnish author F. E. Sillanpää is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Europe
21. 1940The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 more.Europe
22. 1942World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.EuropeAfrica
23. 1944The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.Oceania
24. 1945Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).Asia
25. 1946A magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Peruvian Andes mountains kills at least 1,400 people.Latin America
26. 1951With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.North America
27. 1954U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia.North AmericaAsia
28. 1958The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.North America
29. 1967The Nauru Independence Act 1967 passed the Parliament of Australia, giving independence to the UN Trust Territory of Nauru with effect from 31 January 1968.Oceania
30. 1969National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street.North America
31. 1970Luna 17: uncrewed space mission launched by the Soviet Union.Europe
32. 1970Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.AsiaNorth America
33. 1971A Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount crashes into the Indian Ocean near Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, killing all 69 people on board.Asia
34. 1971In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.Asia
35. 1972Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama 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.North AmericaLatin America
36. 1975The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.North America
37. 1975Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is a form of racism.Middle East
38. 1975Treaty of Osimo between Yugoslavia and ItalyEurope
39. 1979A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario.North America
40. 1983Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.North America
41. 1985A Dassault Falcon 50 and a Piper PA-28 Cherokee collide in mid-air over Fairview, New Jersey, killing six people and injuring eight.North America
42. 1989Germans begin to tear down the Berlin Wall.Europe
43. 1989Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.Europe
44. 1995In 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.Africa
45. 1997WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).North America
46. 1999World Anti-Doping Agency is formed in Lausanne.Europe
47. 2002Veteran's Day Weekend Tornado Outbreak: A tornado outbreak stretching from Northern Ohio to the Gulf Coast, one of the largest outbreaks recorded in November.North America
48. 2006The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush, who announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor.North America
49. 2006Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.Asia
50. 2008Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.North America
51. 2009Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.Asia
52. 2019President of Bolivia Evo Morales and several of his government resign after 19 days of civil protests and a recommendation from the military.Latin America
53. 2020Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a ceasefire agreement, ending the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, and prompting protests in Armenia.Europe

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