Today in History – November 10 in History
What happened on this day in history – November 10 in History around the world
1493 | Christopher Columbus discovers Antigua during his second expedition. | |
1556 | The Englishman Richard Chancellor is drowned off Aberdeenshire on his return from a second voyage to Russia. | |
1647 | All Dutch-held areas of New York are returned to English control by the treaty of Westminster. | |
1775 | U.S. Marine Corps founded. | |
1782 | In the last battle of the American Revolution, George Rogers Clark attacks Indians and Loyalists at Chillicothe, in Ohio Territory. | |
1871 | Henry M. Stanley finds Dr. Livingstone at Ujiji near Unyanyembe in Africa. | |
1879 | Little Bighorn participant Major Marcus Reno is caught window-peeping at the daughter of his commanding officer—an offense for which he will be courtmartialed. | |
1911 | President Taft ends a 15,000-mile, 57-day speaking tour. | |
1911 | The Imperial government of China retakes Nanking. | |
1917 | Forty-one US suffragettes are arrested protesting outside the White House. | |
1938 | Fascist Italy enacts anti-Semitic legislation. | |
1941 | Churchill promises to join the U.S. “within the hour” in the event of war with Japan. | |
1942 | Admiral Jean Darlan orders French forces in North Africa to cease resistance to the Anglo-American forces. | |
1952 | U.S. Supreme Court upholds the decision barring segregation on interstate railways. | |
1961 | Andrew Hatcher is named associate press secretary to President John F. Kennedy. | |
1962 | Eleanor Roosevelt is buried, she had died three days earlier. | |
1964 | Australia begins a draft to fulfill its commitment in Vietnam. | |
1969 | The PBS children’s program Sesame Street debuts. | |
1971 | Two women are tarred and feathered in Belfast for dating British soldiers, while in Londonderry, Northern Ireland a Catholic girl is also tarred and feathered for her intention of marrying a British soldier. | |
1972 | Hijackers divert a jet to Detroit, demanding $10 million and ten parachutes. | |
1975 | The iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald breaks in half and sinks at the eastern end of Lake Superior–all 29 crew members perish. | |
1986 | President Ronald Reagan refuses to reveal details of the Iran arms sale. | |
1989 | German citizens begin tearing down the Berlin Wall. | |
1997 | WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a merger, the largest in US history up to that time. | |
2008 | NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after losing communications with the lander, five months after it began its exploration on the surface of Mars. | |
2009 | North Korean and South Korean ships skirmish off Daecheon Island. | |
Born on November 10 | ||
1483 | Martin Luther, theologian and reformer. | |
1697 | William Hogarth, English caricaturist. | |
1730 | Oliver Goldsmith, playwright (She Stoops to Conquer). | |
1759 | Friedrich von Schiller, playwright and poet. | |
1801 | Samuel Gridley Howe, educator of the blind. | |
1879 | Vachel Lindsay, poet (Rhymes to be Traded for Bread). | |
1882 | Frances Perkins, first woman cabinet member–Secretary of Labor. | |
1925 | Richard Burton, Welsh actor famous for his roles in The Spy who Came in From the Cold and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. | |
1928 | Ennio Morricone, Italian composer and conductor noted for his theme music in spaghetti Westerns such as The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. | |
1935 | Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist; the Novikov self-consistency principle made important contributions to the theory of time travel. | |
1947 | Greg Lake, singer, songwriter, musician, producer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer). | |
1956 | Sinbad (David Adkins), comedian, actor (Necessary Roughness, Houseguest). | |
1963 | Hugh Bonneville, actor (Downton Abbey, Notting Hill). | |
1977 | Brittany Murphy, actress, voice actress, singer, producer; films include Clueless and Sin City; voice of Luanne Platter on long-running animated TV series King of the Hill. | |
1983 | Miranda Lambert, country singer (“Kerosene,” “Famous in a Small Town”) |