What happened on November 10? There are more than 273 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About November 10
November 10 is the 315th day of the year 2024. There are 51 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday. This day falls under the 45th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Sabula, Iowa 52070 sunrise occured at 06:44 AM and sunset occured at 04:45 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Scorpio. The modern birthstone for this month is Topaz while the mystical birthstone is Pearl.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 80 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For November 10
- 1293Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana.
- 1444Battle 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.
- 1520Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden.
- 1619René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
- 1659Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh. This is also recognised as the first defence of Swarajya
- 1674Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
- 1702English colonists besiege Spanish St. Augustine in Queen Anne’s War.
- 1766The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen’s College (later renamed Rutgers University).
- 1775The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
- 1793A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Chaumette.
- 1821Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which lead to Panama’s independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia
- 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.
- 1865Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
- 1871Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”.
- 1898Beginning of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in US history.
- 1910The date of Thomas A. Davis’ opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
- 1918The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
- 1919The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ending on November 12.
- 1942World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan’s agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
- 1944The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
- 1945Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes’ Day (Hari Pahlawan).
- 1951Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
- 1954U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1958The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
- 1969National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children’s television program Sesame Street.
- 1970The Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 is launched.
- 1970Vietnam War: Vietnamization – For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
- 1971In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.
- 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.
- 1975The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
- 1975United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution is repealed in December 1991 by Resolution 4686).
- 1979A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada just west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
- 1984The first Breeders’ Cup takes place at Hollywood Park Racetrack.
- 1989Longtime leader of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.
- 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.
- 1997WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
- 2006Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.
- 2006The National Museum of the Marine Corps is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush and annonces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will receive the Medal of Honor in Quantico, Virginia.
- 2007¿Por qué no te callas? incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela’s president Hugo Chávez.
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Who Were Born On November 10?
- 1341Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman and former Lord Marshall (d. 1408)
- 1433Charles, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1477)
- 1480Bridget of York, English princess and nun (d. 1517)
- 1483Martin Luther, German Protestant reformer (d. 1546)
- 1565Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646)
- 1566Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (d. 1601)
- 1577Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist and politician (d. 1660)
- 1620Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtesan and writer (d. 1705)
- 1668François Couperin, French composer (d. 1733)
- 1668Louis III, Prince of Condé (d. 1710)
- 1683George II of Great Britain (d. 1760)
- 1695John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)
- 1697William Hogarth, English artist (d. 1764)
- 1710Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (d. 1792)
- 1728Oliver Goldsmith, English playwright (d. 1774)
- 1735Granville Sharp, English abolitionist (d. 1813)
- 1759Friedrich Schiller, German writer (d. 1805)
- 1801Samuel Gridley Howe, American social reformer (d. 1876)
- 1801Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872)
- 1810George Jennings, English sanitary engineer (d. 1882)
- 1834José Hernández, Argentine author of Martín Fierro (d. 1886)
- 1844Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian (d. 1932)
- 1845Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1894)
- 1848Sir Surendranath Banerjea, leader, Indian National Congress (d. 1925)
- 1850Arthur Goring Thomas, English composer (d. 1892)
- 1868Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist (d. 1957)
- 1871Winston Churchill, American novelist (d. 1947)
- 1873Henri Rabaud, French composer and conductor (d. 1949)
- 1874Idabelle Smith Firestone, American composer and songwriter (d. 1954)
- 1878Cy Morgan, American baseball player (d. 1962)
- 1879Patrick Pearse, Irish political activist (d. 1916)
- 1879Vachel Lindsay, American poet (d. 1931)
- 1880Jacob Epstein, American sculptor (d. 1959)
- 1887Arnold Zweig, German author (d. 1968)
- 1888Andrei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1972)
- 1889Claude Rains, English actor (d. 1967)
- 1891Carl Stalling, American film composer (d. 1972)
- 1893John P. Marquand, American writer (d. 1960)
- 1894Boris Furlan, Slovenian legal theorist and politician (d. 1957)
- 1895John Knudsen Northrop, American airplane manufacturer (d. 1981)
- 1896Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
- 1896Olga Grey, Hungarian-born American silent actress (d. 1973)
- 1906Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (d. 1945)
- 1907Jane Froman, American actor and singer (d. 1980)
- 1907John Moore, English author (d. 1967)
- 1908Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
- 1909Johnny Marks, American songwriter (d. 1985)
- 1909Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970)
- 1912Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (d. 1999)
- 1916Billy May, American composer, arranger and bandleader (d. 2004)
- 1916Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter
- 1918Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
- 1919François Périer, French actor (d. 2002)
- 1919George Fenneman, American radio and television announcer (d. 1997)
- 1919Michael Strank, American flag raiser on Iwo Jima (d. 1945)
- 1919Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian inventor
- 1919Moise Tshombe, Congoian politician (d. 1969)
- 1920Jennifer Holt, American actress (d. 1997)
- 1920Rafael del Pino, Spanish entrepreneur (d. 2008)
- 1923Hachiko, famous dog (d. 1935)
- 1924Bobby Limb, Australian entertainer (d. 1999)
- 1924Russell Johnson, American actor (Gilligan’s Island)
- 1925Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
- 1927Sabah, Lebanese singer and actress
- 1928Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
- 1929Marilyn Bergman, American composer and songwriter
- 1932Don Henderson, English actor (d. 1997)
- 1932Roy Scheider, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1933Ronald Evans, American astronaut (d. 1990)
- 1934Lucien Bianchi, Belgian racing driver (d. 1969)
- 1935Bernard Babior, American biochemist
- 1935Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist
- 1937Albert Hall, American actor
- 1939Allan Moffat, Canadian-Australian race car driver
- 1939Russell Means, Native American activist
- 1940Screaming Lord Sutch, English musician and politician (d. 1999)
- 1941John Geoghegan, American soldier and Silver Star recipient (d. 1965)
- 1942Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1942Robert F. Engle, American economist, Nobel laureate
- 1943Saxby Chambliss, American politician, senior senator of Georgia
- 1944Silvestre Reyes, American politician
- 1944Sir Tim Rice, English lyricist
- 1945Donna Fargo, American singer
- 1946Roy Thomas Baker, English record producer
- 1947Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese military commander (d. 1982)
- 1947Dave Loggins, American songwriter and singer
- 1947Glen Buxton, American musician (Alice Cooper) (d. 1997)
- 1947Greg Lake, British musician (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
- 1948Aaron Brown, American broadcast journalist
- 1948Hugh Moffatt, American songwriter
- 1948Shigesato Itoi, Japanese novelist and video game designer.
- 1948Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1949Ann Reinking, American dancer
- 1950Bob Orton, Jr., American wrestler
- 1950Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (d. 2005)
- 1950Jack Scalia, American actor
- 1952Gerry DiNardo, American football coach
- 1954Bob Stanley, American baseball player
- 1955Jack Clark, American baseball player
- 1955James Chapman, American novelist
- 1955Roland Emmerich, German film producer and director
- 1956Mohsen Badawi, Egyptian entrepreneur and activist
- 1956Sinbad, American actor
- 1958Brooks Williams, American musician
- 1958George Lowe, American voice actor
- 1958Massimo Morsello, Italian singer (d. 2001)
- 1958Stephen Herek, American film director
- 1959Linda Cohn, American sports reporter
- 1959Mackenzie Phillips, American actress
- 1959Mike McCarthy, American football coach
- 1960Dan Hawkins, American college football coach
- 1960Neil Gaiman, English writer
- 1961John Walton, English darts player
- 1961Rudolf Grimm, Austrian physics professor
- 1963Hugh Bonneville, English actor
- 1964Kenny Rogers, American baseball player
- 1964Magnús Scheving, Icelandic athlete
- 1965Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish racing driver
- 1965Jamie Dixon, American basketball coach
- 1965Sean Hughes, Irish comedian
- 1966Bill DeMott, American wrestler
- 1966Vanessa Angel, English actress
- 1967Michael Jai White, American actor
- 1968Steve Brookstein, English X Factor winner
- 1968Tracy Morgan, American actor/comedian
- 1969Ellen Pompeo, American actress
- 1969Faustino Asprilla, Colombian footballer
- 1969Jens Lehmann, German footballer
- 1970Freddy Loix, Belgian rally driver
- 1970Tay Ping Hui, Singaporean actor
- 1970Vince Vieluf, American actor
- 1970Warren G, American rapper
- 1971Walton Goggins, American actor
- 1972DJ Ashba, American musician (Guns N' Roses)
- 1972Isaac Bruce, American football player
- 1972Shawn Green, American baseball player
- 1973Patrik Berger, Czech footballer
- 1974Chris Lilley, Australian comedian
- 1974Niko Hurme, Finnish musician
- 1976Shefki Kuqi, Finnish footballer
- 1976Steffen Iversen, Norwegian footballer
- 1977Brittany Murphy, American actress (d. 2009)
- 1977Josh Barnett, American Mixed Martial Artist
- 1977Won Bin, Korean actor
- 1978Drew McConnell, Irish musician (Babyshambles)
- 1978Eve, American rapper
- 1978Kyla Cole, Slovak pornographic actress
- 1979Chris Joannou, Australian musician, (Silverchair)
- 1980Calvin Chen, Taiwanese singer, (Fei Lun Hai/Fahrenheit)
- 1980Donté Stallworth, American football player
- 1980Troy Bell, American basketball player
- 1981Jason L. Dunham, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2004)
- 1981Tony Blanco, Dominican baseball player
- 1982Heather Matarazzo, American actress
- 1983Craig Smith, American basketball player
- 1983Miranda Lambert, American singer
- 1984Kendrick Perkins, Texanian basketball player
- 1985Giovonnie Samuels, American television actress
- 1985Krystian Trochowski, German rugby player
- 1985Ricki-Lee Coulter, New Zealand/Australian singer
- 1986Ilias Iliadis, Greek judoka
- 1986Josh Peck, American actor
- 1987Charles Hamilton, American hip-hop artist
- 1987Jessica Tovey, Australian actress
- 2000Mackenzie Foy, American actress and model
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Who Died On November 10?
- 627Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 901Queen Adelaide of Paris
- 1241Pope Celestine IV
- 1444King Władysław III of Poland (b. 1424)
- 1549Pope Paul III (b. 1468)
- 1596Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)
- 1605Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (b. 1522)
- 1617Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer
- 1624Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English theater patron (b. 1573)
- 1644Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b. 1579)
- 1659Afzal Khan, Adilshahi Emperor by Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King in Battle of Pratapgarh
- 1673Michael of Poland (b. 1640)
- 1727Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (b. 1659)
- 1728Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admiral (b. 1661)
- 1772Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
- 1777Cornstalk, Shawnee chief
- 1808Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (b. 1724)
- 1865Henry Wirz, Swiss-born American POW commandant (b. 1823)
- 1869John E. Wool, American soldier (b. 1822)
- 1891Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, (b. 1854)
- 1909George Essex Evans, Australian poet (b. 1863)
- 1912Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
- 1917Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (b. 1866)
- 1936Louis Gustave Binger, French officer and explorer (b. 1856)
- 1938Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkish statesman (b. 1881)
- 1956Gordon MacQuarrie, American author and journalist (b. 1900)
- 1964Jimmie Dodd, American actor (b. 1910)
- 1973David “Stringbean” Akeman, American country music banjo player (b. 1915)
- 1975Ernest M. McSorley, American ship captain (b. 1912)
- 1981Abel Gance, French film director, producer, and actor (b. 1889)
- 1982Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1906)
- 1984Xavier Herbert, Australian author (b. 1901)
- 1986Gordon Richards, British jockey. (b. 1904)
- 1986Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (b. 1916)
- 1990Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban baseball player (b. 1943)
- 1990Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914)
- 1991William Afflis, American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
- 1992Chuck Connors, American actor and pro athlete (b. 1921)
- 1994Carmen McRae, American singer (b. 1920)
- 1995Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and activist (b. 1941)
- 1997Tommy Tedesco, American musician (b. 1930)
- 1998Mary Millar, English actress (b. 1936)
- 2000Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician (b. 1919)
- 2000Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Frech statesman (b. 1915)
- 2001Ken Kesey, American author (b. 1935)
- 2002Michel Boisrond, French film director (b. 1921)
- 2003Canaan Banana, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1936)
- 2003Irv Kupcinet, American columnist and television personality (b. 1912)
- 2004Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (b. 1907)
- 2006Diana Coupland, British comedy actress (b. 1932)
- 2006Fokko du Cloux, mathematician (b. 1954)
- 2006Gerald Levert, American singer (b. 1966)
- 2006Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
- 2006Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1962)
- 2007Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights figure (b. 1907)
- 2007Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920)
- 2007Norman Mailer, American author (b. 1923)
- 2008Arthur Shawcross, American serial killer (b. 1945)
- 2008Miriam Makeba, South African singer and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1932)
- 2008Wannes Van de Velde, Flemish singer (b. 1937)
- 2009Gheorghe Dinica, Romanian actor (b. 1934)
- 2009John Allen Muhammad, American convicted spree killer (b. 1960)
- 2009Robert Enke, German footballer (b. 1977)
- 2009Tomaž Humar, Slovenian mountaineer (b. 1969)
- 2010Dave Niehaus, American sportscaster (b. 1935)
- 2010Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (b. 1919)
- 2010Nicolo Rizzuto, Sicilian-born Canadian organized crime figure (b. 1924)
- 2011Ivan Martin Jirous, Czech poet (b. 1944)
- 2011Peter J. Biondi, American state legislator (New Jersey) and former mayor (b. 1942)
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