Title: November 10 Content: == Events == === Up to 1950 === * 1444 – Battle of Varna: King Wladyslaw of Poland and Hungary is killed, after defeat to the Turks under Murad II. * 1520 – King Christian II of Denmark orders the execution of dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath, after successfully invading Sweden. * 1619 - René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy. * 1674 - The Netherlands cedes the New Netherland to England. * 1775 – United States Marine Corps is created. * 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte becomes French consul. * 1821 - Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de los Santos, Panama, sets into motion a revolt which will lead to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia. * 1847 - Passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off Ireland, killing 92 out of the 110 people on board. * 1865 - Major Henry Wirz, superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, US, is hanged. * 1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates the explorer David Livingstone in Ujiji, Tanzania. * 1890 - At Cabo Vilan, Spain, British ship HMS Serpent of the Royal Navy sinks in stormy seas, killing 172 people, with 3 being able to swim to safety. * 1909 - The first outdoor ice rink opens in Vienna. * 1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, following the declaring of a Republic in Germany, goes into exile in the Netherlands. * 1928 – Coronation of Hirohito as Emperor of Japan. * 1938 – The Kristallnacht ends. About 30 000 Jews are moved to concentration camps, and over 1500 synagogues are partly destroyed. * 1938 - President of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Atatürk dies. * 1940 - The 1940 Vrancea earthquake in Romania kills around 1,000 people. * 1942 - World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French admiral Francois Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the allies in North Africa. * 1944 - The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 people. * 1945 - Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonists after World War II. * 1946 - An earthquake in the Ancash region of Peru kills 1,400 people. === From 1951 === * 1951 - The US' first direct coast-to-coast service begins, between New Jersey and California. * 1954 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery. * 1958 - The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston. * 1969 – The television show Sesame Street airs for the first time in the United States. * 1970 - For the first time in five years, a week passes without reports of US Military casualties in Vietnam. * 1970 - Soviet lunar probe Lunokhod 1 is launched. * 1971 - In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44 people. * 1975 – The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew members on board. * 1975 - The UN General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with Racism. This is repealed (removed) by 1991. * 1978 - Larry Holmes wins the World Heavyweight Boxing title against Alfredo Evangelista. * 1982 - Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev dies, being succeeded by Yuri Andropov, who himself dies only 15 months later, in February 1984. * 1989 – Bulgaria's Communist regime under Todor Zhivkov falls. * 1995 – Nine Nigerian human rights activists are executed, including the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa. * 2001 – Apple Inc. starts selling the IPod. * 2008 - Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission finished, after communication with the lander was lost. * 2009 - Ships from the North Korean and South Korean navies clash off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea. * 2009 – John Allen Muhammad is executed for the Beltway sniper attacks. * 2011 – Lucas Papademos is chosen to lead a caretaker government in Greece. * 2012 - Four days after the United States Presidential Election, Florida is given to Barack Obama, sealing his 332-206 Electoral College win over Mitt Romney. * 2013 - Marc Marquez becomes the youngest Moto GP world champion. * 2014 - A suicide bomb attack at a school in northeastern Nigeria kills 48 people. * 2019 - Spain holds its second general election in less than seven months, with the governing Socialist Party under Pedro Sánchez remaining the largest party but the far- right Vox Party doubling its number of seats. * 2019 - Evo Morales resigns as President of Bolivia during a political crisis in the country over his disputed re-election on October 20. == Births == === Up to 1800 === * 1232 - Haakon the Young, King of Norway (d. 1257) * 1341 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408) * 1433 – Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1477) * 1480 - Bridget of York, English nun and princess (d. 1517) * 1483 – Martin Luther, German Protestant reformer (d. 1546) * 1547 - Gerhard Truchsess von Waldburg, Archbishop-Elector of Cologne (d. 1601) * 1565 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646) * 1577 – Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist and politician (d. 1660) * 1668 – François Couperin, French composer (d. 1733) * 1683 – George II, German-born King of Britain (d. 1760) * 1695 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771) * 1697 - Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco (d. 1731) * 1697 – William Hogarth, English artist (d. 1764) * 1710 - Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (d. 1792) * 1720 - Honoré III, Prince of Monaco (d. 1795) * 1728 – Oliver Goldsmith, Anglo-Irish playwright (d. 1774) * 1735 - Granville Sharp, English abolitionist (d. 1813) * 1740 - Maria Kunigunde of Saxony (d. 1826) * 1755 - Franz Anton Ries, German violinist (d. 1846) * 1759 – Friedrich Schiller, German writer (d. 1805) === 1801 1900 === * 1801 - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872) * 1801 - Samuel Gridley Howe, American social reformer (d. 1876) * 1807 – Robert Blum, German politician and revolutionary (d. 1848) * 1810 - George Jennings, English plumber and engineer (d. 1882) * 1829 - Elwin Bruno Christoffel, German astronomer (d. 1900) * 1834 – José Hernández, Argentine journalist, poet and politician (d. 1886) * 1845 - Miguel Antonio Caro, 2nd President of Colombia (d. 1909) * 1845 – John Sparrow David Thompson, Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1894) * 1851 - Francis Maitland Balfour, Scottish biologist (d. 1882) * 1859 - Théophile Steinlen, Swiss- French artist (d. 1923) * 1861 - Robert T. A. Innes, Scottish astronomer (d. 1933) * 1862 - Chester Hardy Aldrich, 17th Governor of Nebraska (d. 1924) * 1868 - Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist (d. 1957) * 1871 - Winston Churchill, American novelist (d. 1947) * 1873 - Henri Rabaud, French composer (d. 1949) * 1875 - Hansi Niese, Austrian actress (d. 1934) * 1878 - Jorge Ubico, President of Guatemala (d. 1946) * 1879 – Patrick Pearse, Irish writer and political activist (d. 1916) * 1880 - Jacob Epstein, American sculptor (d. 1959) * 1883 - Olaf Bull, Norwegian poet (d. 1933) * 1886 - Edward Joseph Collins, American pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1951) * 1887 - Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Romanian engineer (d. 1973) * 1887 – Arnold Zweig, German writer (d. 1968) * 1888 – Andrei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1972) * 1888 - Juan Antonio Ríos, President of Chile (d. 1946) * 1889 - Claude Rains, British-American actor (d. 1967) * 1890 - El Lissitzky, American artist (d. 1941) * 1892 - Mabel Normand, American actress and director (d. 1930) * 1893 - John P. Marquand, American writer (d. 1960) * 1895 - John Knudsen Northrop, American industrialist and aircraft designer (d. 1981) * 1896 - Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976) * 1897 - Antonio Pons, Acting President of Ecuador (d. 1980) * 1899 - Swami Satyabhakta, Indian guru, philosopher and scholar (d. 1998) === 1901 1950 === * 1905 - Louis Harold Gray, British physicist and radiologist (d. 1965) * 1907 - Jane Froman, American actress and singer (d. 1980) * 1909 - Pawel Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970) * 1909 - Johnny Marks, American songwriter (d. 1985) * 1911 - Harry Andrews, English actor (d. 1989) * 1912 - Jean-Hilaire Aubame, Prime Minister of Gabon (d. 1989) * 1914 – Edmund Conen, German footballer (d. 1990) * 1916 - Dr. Tangalanga, Argentine comedian (d. 2013) * 1918 – Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist (d. 2007) * 1919 – Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian inventor of the AK-47 (d. 2013) * 1920 - Maurice Clavel, French writer and philosopher (d. 1979) * 1920 – Jennifer Holt, American actress (d. 1997) * 1923 – Hachiko, world famous Japanese Akita dog (d. 1935) * 1924 - Russell Johnson, American actor (d. 2014) * 1925 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984) * 1927 - Vaughn O. Lang, American general (d. 2014) * 1927 - Sabah, Lebanese singer and actress (d. 2014) * 1928 – Ennio Morricone, Italian composer * 1930 - Gene Conley, American basketball player (d. 2017) * 1930 - Adam Purple, American activist and gardener (d. 2015) * 1931 - Lilly Pulitzer, American fashion designer (d. 2013) * 1932 – Roy Scheider, American actor (d. 2008) * 1932 - Paul Bley, Canadian pianist (d. 2016) * 1933 - Ronald Evans, American astronaut (d. 1982) * 1934 - Lucien Bianchi, Belgian racing driver (d. 1969) * 1935 - Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Russian astronomer and astrophysicist * 1937 – Albert Hall, American actor * 1937 - Archie Macpherson, Scottish sports commentator * 1938 – Jiri Grusa, Czech diplomat and writer (d. 2011) * 1939 - Russell Means, Native American activist and actor (d. 2012) * 1940 – Screaming Lord Sutch, British musician and politician (d. 1999) * 1942 – Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss Federal Councillor * 1942 – Robert F. Engle, American economist * 1943 - Saxby Chambliss, American politician * 1944 – Sir Tim Rice, English songwriter * 1944 - Askar Akayev, former President of Kyrgyzstan * 1944 - Silvestre Reyes, American politician * 1945 - Terence Davies, English screenwriter, director, novelist and actor * 1947 – Greg Lake, English musician (d. 2016) * 1947 – Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese politician (d. 1982) * 1947 - Glen Buxton, American musician * 1948 – Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005) * 1948 - Shigesato Itoi, Japanese video game designer, voice actor and author * 1949 - Ann Reinking, American actress and dancer * 1949 - Michio Yasuda, Japanese footballer === 1951 1975 === * 1954 - Jaume Bartumeu, 5th Prime Minister of Andorra * 1955 – Roland Emmerich, German movie director * 1955 – Bruno Peyron, French sailor * 1956 - Mohsen Badawi, Egyptian entrepreneur and activist * 1956 - Matt Craven, Canadian actor * 1956 - Sinbad, American actor and comedian * 1957 - Nigel Evans, British politician * 1958 - Stephen Herek, American film director * 1958 - George Lowe, American actor and comedian * 1959 – Mackenzie Phillips, American actress * 1959 - Randy Mamola, American racing driver * 1960 – Neil Gaiman, English writer * 1961 - John Walton, English darts player * 1963 – Hugh Bonneville, English actor * 1963 - Mike Powell, American athlete * 1963 - Antoni Martí, 6th Prime Minister of Andorra * 1964 - Magnús Scheving, Icelandic sportsperson, producer and actor * 1965 - Sean Hughes, Irish actor and comedian (d. 2017) * 1965 – Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish racing driver * 1967 - Andreas Scholl, German tenor * 1967 - Michael Jai White, American actor and martial artist * 1968 – Tracy Morgan, American actor and comedian * 1968 - Daphne Deckers, Dutch model * 1968 - Steve Brookstein, British singer * 1969 – Faustino Asprilla, Colombian footballer * 1969 – Jens Lehmann, German footballer * 1969 – Ellen Pompeo, American actress * 1970 – Warren G, American rapper * 1970 - Sergei Ovchinnikov, Russian footballer and manager * 1971 - Mario Abdo Benítez, Paraguayan politician, President of Paraguay * 1971 - Jose Peralta, American politician (d. 2018) * 1971 - Magnus Johansson, Swedish footballer * 1971 - Niki Karimi, Iranian actress, director and screenwriter * 1971 - Holly Black, American writer * 1972 - DJ Ashba, American musician (Guns N' Roses) * 1973 – Patrik Berger, Czech footballer === From 1976 === * 1976 – Steffen Iversen, Norwegian footballer * 1976 – Shefki Kuqi, Finnish footballer * 1977 - Erik Nevland, Norwegian footballer * 1977 – Brittany Murphy, American actress (d. 2009) * 1978 - Kyla Cole, Slovakian model, fashion designer and pornographic actress * 1978 - Ruth Davidson, Scottish journalist and politician, former Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party * 1978 – Eve, American rapper and actress * 1978 – Nadine Angerer, German footballer * 1979 - Anthony Réveillère, French footballer * 1981 - Miroslav Slepicka, Czech footballer * 1981 - Ryback, American professional wrestler * 1982 - Ruth Lorenzo, Spanish singer * 1982 – Heather Matarazzo, American actress * 1983 – Miranda Lambert, American singer * 1983 - Craig Smith, American basketball player * 1984 - Kendrick Perkins, American basketball player * 1985 – Aleksandar Kolarov, Serbian footballer * 1986 – Samuel Wanjiru, Kenyan marathon runner (d. 2011) * 1986 - Josh Peck, American actor * 1987 - Jessica Tovey, Australian actress * 1989 - Taron Egerton, Welsh actor * 1990 - Kristina Vogel, German track cyclist * 1990 - Vanessa Ferrari, Italian gymnast * 1990 - Aron Johansson, American soccer player * 1990 - Mireia Belmonte, Spanish swimmer * 1991 - Genevieve Buechner, Canadian actress * 1991 - Tony Snell, American basketball player * 1992 - Wilfried Zaha, Ivorian-English footballer * 1994 - Takuma Asano, Japanese footballer * 1994 - Zoey Deutch, American actress * 1999 - Kiernan Shipka, American actress * 2000 – Mackenzie Foy, American actress and model == Deaths == === Up to 1900 === * 461 - Pope Leo I * 627 - Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury * 901 - Adelaide of Paris (b. 850) * 1241 - Pope Celestine IV * 1444 – Wladyslaw of Poland (b. 1424) * 1549 – Pope Paul III, last of the Renaissance popes (b. 1468) * 1605 – Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (b. 1522) * 1644 - Luis Velez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b. 1579) * 1673 - Michael of Poland (b. 1640) * 1777 - Cornstalk, American tribal chief (b. 1720) * 1808 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, 21st Governor General of Canada (b. 1724) * 1838 - Ivan Kotlyarevsky, Ukrainian poet (b. 1769) * 1848 – King Christian VIII of Denmark (b. 1786) * 1848 – Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt (b. 1789) * 1852 - Gideon Mantell, British geologist, physician and palaeontologist (b. 1790) * 1865 - Henry Wirz, Swiss-born American POW commandant (b. 1823) * 1891 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (b. 1854) === 1901 2000 === * 1911 - Christian Lundeberg, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1842) * 1912 - Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863) * 1916 – Walter Sutton, American biologist (b. 1877) * 1936 - Louis Gustave Binger, French army officer and explorer (b. 1856) * 1937 - Lev Shubnikov, Russian physicist (b. 1901) * 1938 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, first President of Turkey (b. 1881) * 1940 - Ilie Pintilie, Romanian activist (b. 1903) * 1943 - Johannes Prassek, German activist (b. 1911) * 1959 – Felix Jacoby, German classical philologist (b. 1896) * 1977 - Dennis Wheatley, English writer (b. 1897) * 1981 - Abel Gance, French actor, director and producer (b. 1889) * 1982 – Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1906) * 1987 - Seyni Kountché, President of Niger (b. 1931) * 1987 - Noor Hossain, Bangladeshi activist (b. 1961) * 1990 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914) * 1991 – Gunnar Gren, Swedish footballer (b. 1920) * 1992 - Chuck Connors, American actor and athlete (b. 1921) * 1994 - Carmen McRae, American singer (b. 1920) * 1995 – Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and human rights activist (b. 1941) * 1997 - Ave Ninchi, Italian actress (b. 1914) * 1998 - Mary Millar, British actress (b. 1936) * 2000 – Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Prime Minister of France (b. 1915) * 2000 - Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919) === From 2001 === * 2001 – Ken Kesey, American writer (b. 1935) * 2002 - Michel Boisrond, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1921) * 2003 – Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (b. 1936) * 2003 - Irv Kupcinet, American columnist and television presenter (b. 1912) * 2006 – Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919) * 2007 – Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920) * 2007 – Norman Mailer, American writer (b. 1923) * 2008 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer (b. 1932) * 2009 – Robert Enke, German footballer (b. 1977) * 2009 – John Allen Muhammad, American spree killer (b. 1960) * 2010 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian movie producer (b. 1919) * 2011 - Ivan Martin Jirous, Czech poet (b. 1944) * 2013 - Giorgio Orelli, Swiss poet (b. 1921) * 2014 - Wayne Goss, Australian politician, Premier of Queensland (b. 1951) * 2014 - Steve Dodd, Australian actor (b. 1928) * 2014 - Al Renfrew, American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1924) * 2014 - Ken Takakura, Japanese actor (b. 1931) * 2014 - Doc Paskowitz, American surfer (b. 1921) * 2014 - Jovian, American lemur actor (b. 1994) * 2015 - Allen Toussaint, American musician, songwriter and producer (b. 1938) * 2015 - Laurent Vidal, French triathlete (b. 1984) * 2015 - André Glucksmann, French philosopher (b. 1937) * 2015 - Pat Eddery, Irish jockey (b. 1952) * 2015 - Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of West Germany (b. 1918) * 2015 - Tim Valentine, American politician (b. 1926) * 2015 - Klaus Roth, German-British mathematician (b. 1925) * 2015 - Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist, physicist and engineer (b. 1922) * 2017 - Ray Lovelock, Italian actor and rock musician (b. 1950) * 2017 - Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov, Latvian-born Russian comedian and writer (b. 1948) * 2017 - Bernhard Eckstein, German racing cyclist (b. 1935) * 2017 - Erika Remberg, Austrian actress (b. 1932) * 2018 - Raffaele Baldassarre, Italian politician (b. 1956) * 2018 - Joel Barcellos, Brazilian actor (b. 1936) * 2018 - Ron Johnson, American football player (b. 1947) * 2018 - Herbert London, American political activist and conservative commentator (b. 1939) * 2018 - Liz J. Patterson, American politician (b. 1939) * 2019 - T. N. Seshan, Indian politician (b. 1932) * 2019 - István Szívós, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1948) == Observances == * Atatürk Remembrance Day (Turkey) * Heroes' Day, or Hari Pahlawan (Indonesia) * World Science Day Category:Days of the year