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== Events ==
*[[1444]] - [[Battle of Varna]]: The crusading forces of King [[Władysław III of Poland|Vladislaus III of Varna]] (aka ''Ulaszlo I of Hungary'' and ''Wladyslaw III of Poland'') are crushed by the [[Ottoman Empire|Turks]] under Sultan [[Murad II]] and Vladislaus is killed.
*[[1520]] - Danish [[Christian II of Denmark|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 (1674)|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 two battalions of Continental Marines (later renamed the [[United States Marine Corps]]) to serve as landing troops for the recently created Continental Navy.
*[[1792]] - [[The White House]]: Construction begins by placing of the cornerstone.
*[[1865]] - Major [[Henry Wirz]], the superintendent of [[Andersonville, Georgia#History|a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia]], is [[hanging|hanged]], becoming the only [[American Civil War]] soldier [[execution (legal)|executed]] for [[war crime]]s.
*[[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 1920's in Chicago.
*[[1928]] - [[Hirohito|Michinomiya Hirohito]] is crowned the 124th [[Emperor of Japan]], Emperor Showa.
* 1928 - Playing against Army at [[Yankee Stadium]], [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish football|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.
*[[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)|USS ''Mount Hood'' (AE-11)]] exploded at [[Seeadler Harbour]], [[Manus Island|Manus]], [[Admiralty Islands]]
*[[1945]] - [[Battle of Surabaya|Heavy battle]] in [[Surabaya]] between [[Indonesia]]n 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 [[United States|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 [[fixed-wing aircraft|airplane]]s.
*[[1972]] - [[Southern Airways Flight 49]] from [[Birmingham]] is [[Aircraft hijacking|hijack]]ed 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|SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald'']] sinks during a storm on [[Lake Superior]], killing all 29 crew on board.
* 1975 - [[United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379|United Nations Resolution 3379]]: [[United Nations]] General Assembly approves a resolution equating [[Zionism]] with [[racism]] (the resolution was repealed in December [[1991]] with [[UN General Assembly Resolution 4686|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]].
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* [[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]])
*[[1735]] - [[Granville Sharp]], English campaigner for the abolition of slavery (d. [[1813]])
*[[1759]] - [[Friedrich Schiller|Friedrich von Schiller]], German writer (d. [[1805]])
*[[1801]] - [[Samuel Gridley Howe]], American social reformer (d. [[1876]])
* 1801 - [[Vladimir Dal]], Russian lexicographer (d. [[1872]])
*[[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 (novelist)|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]])
*[[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]])
*[[1918]] - [[Ernst Otto Fischer]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[1919]] - [[Mikhail Kalashnikov|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]])
*[[1920]] - [[Rafael del Pino (Spaniard)|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]] - [[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 Prize in Economics|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
*[[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]] - [[Huey Lewis & the News|Mario Cipollina]], American bass player ([[Huey Lewis & the News]])
*[[1955]] - [[James Chapman (author)|James Chapman]], American novelist
* 1955 - [[Jack Clark (baseball)|Jack Clark]], American baseball player
* 1955 - [[Roland Emmerich]], German film producer and director
*[[1956]] - [[Mohsen Badawi]], Egyptian entrepreneur, politicial activist and writer
* 1956 - [[Sinbad (actor)|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
*[[1961]] - [[John Walton]], English darts player
*[[1964]] - [[Kenny Rogers (baseball player)|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 [[The X Factor (TV series)|X Factor]] winner
*[[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
*[[1974]] - [[Jonathan Kramm]], American composer, musician and journalist
*[[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 (rapper)|Eve]], American rapper
* 1978 - [[Kyla Cole]], Slovak adult actress
*[[1980]] - [[Troy Bell]], American basketball player
*[[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]] - [[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
*[[1986]] - [[Josh Peck]], American actor
*[[1987]] - [[Jessica Tovey]], Australian actress
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==Deaths==
* [[627]] - [[Justus]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]]
* [[901]] - [[Adelaide of Paris]], Queen of Western Francia
*[[1444]] - King [[Władysław III of Poland|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]])
* 1909 - [[George Essex Evans]], Australian poet (b. [[1863]])
*[[1912]] - [[Louis Cyr]], Canadian strongman (b. [[1863]])
*[[1917]] - [[Harry Trott]], Australian cricketer (b. [[1866]])
*[[1936]] - [[Louis Gustave Binger]], French officer and explorer (b. [[1856]])
*[[1938]] - [[Kemal Atatürk|Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]], founder and the first [[President of Turkey]] (b. [[1881]])
*[[1964]] - [[Jimmie Dodd]], American actor (b. [[1910]])
*[[1975]] - [[Ernest M. McSorley]], American ship captain (b. [[1912]])
*[[1982]] - [[Leonid Brezhnev]], ruler of the Soviet Union (b. [[1906]])
*[[1981]] - [[Abel Gance]], French film director, producer, and actor (b. [[1889]])
*[[1985]] - [[Pelle Lindbergh]], Swedish ice hockey player (b. [[1959]])
*[[1986]] - [[King Clancy]], Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (b. [[1903]])
*[[1990]] - [[Aurelio Monteagudo]], Cuban baseball player (b. [[1943]])
* 1990 - [[Mário Schenberg]], Brazilian physicist (b. [[1914]])
*[[1991]] - [[William Afflis]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1929]])
*[[1992]] - [[Chuck Connors]], American actor, baseball and basketball player (b. [[1921]])
*[[1994]] - [[Carmen McRae]], American singer (b. [[1920]])
*[[1995]] - [[Ken Saro-Wiwa]], Nigerian writer and activist (b. [[1941]])
*[[1997]] - [[Tommy Tedesco]], American musician (b. [[1930]])
*[[1998]] - [[Mary Millar]], English actress (b. [[1936]])
*[[2000]] - [[Jacques Chaban-Delmas]], [[Prime Minister of France]] (b. [[1915]])
*[[2001]] - [[Ken Kesey]], American author (b. [[1935]])
*[[2002]] - [[Michel Boisrond]], French film director (b. [[1921]])
* 2003 - [[Canaan Banana]], first [[President of Zimbabwe]] (b. [[1936]])
* 2003 - [[Irv Kupcinet|Irv "Kup" Kupcinet]], American columnist and television personality (b. [[1912]])
*[[2006]] - [[Diana Coupland]], British comedy actress (b. [[1932]])
* 2006 - [[Gerald Levert]], American singer (b. [[1966]])
* 2006 - [[Jack Palance]], American actor (b. [[1919]])
* 2006 - [[Nadarajah Raviraj]], Sri Lankan politician (b. [[1962]])
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== Holidays and observances ==
* [[Christianity]] - the [[feast day]] of [[Pope Leo I]] the Great and [[Andrew Avellino]]
* Ancient [[Latvia]] - [[Martini (festival)|Martini]]
* [[Turkey]] - [[Kemal Atatürk|Day of Remembrance of Ataturk]]
* [[Russia]] - Day of [[Militsiya]] (analogue of [[police]] in Russia)
* [[Argentina]] - Day of Tradition, honouring the death of [[José Hernández]]
* [[United States Marine Corps]] Birthday
==External links==
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/10 BBC: On This Day]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20061110.html ''The New York Times'': On This Day]
* [http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Nov&day=10 On This Day in Canada]
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