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What happened in history on this day: November 10?
On November 10 in ...
- 461 - Saint Leo I ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 1483 - Birth of Martin Luther in Eisleben, Germany; founded Protestantism.
- 1668 - Birth of Francois Couperin Paris France, composer/organist (Concerts Royaux).
- 1674 - Dutch formally cede New Netherlands to English.
- 1683 - Birth of George II in Hannover; son of King George of England, Elector of Hannover (Holy Roman Empire), King of England (1727-1760).
- 1697 - Birth of William Hogarth England, satiric painter/engraver (Rake's Progress).
- 1730 - Birth of Oliver Goldsmith Ireland, novelist/dramatist (She Stoops to Conquer).
- 1759 - Birth of Frederich von Schiller Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy).
- 1775 - The Continental Congress establishes the Continental Marines.
- 1801 - Kentucky outlaws dueling.
- 1808 - Osage Treaty signed.
- 1819 - Birth of Cyrus West Field; financier/success of first transatlantic cable.
- 1823 - A meteorite strikes a house in Wasenda, Japan.
- 1836 - Louis Napoleon is banished to America.
- 1844 - Birth of John SD Thompson; fourth Prime Minister of Canada (Conservative, 1892-94).
- 1851 - Birth of Waldemar Brígger in Norway; geologist/mineralogist (Metamict State).
- 1859 - Armistice signed officially in Zurich by Napoleon III and Franz Josef I.
- 1861 - Birth of Robert TA Innes in Edinburgh, Scotland; astronomer (Proxima Centauri).
- 1865 - Henry Wirzm, Confederate prison superintendant, is executed for excessive cruelty.
- 1871 - Journalist Henry Morton Stanley greets the missing British explorer Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji near Lake Tanganyika with the words "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?". Livingstone had been missing for over five years.
- 1873 - Birth of Henri Rabaud in Paris, France; composer (Le Premer Glaire).
- 1876 - The 1876 Centennial International Exposition closes in Philadelphia. Almost 10 million visitors attended.
- 1879 - Birth of Nicholas Vachel Lindsay; US poet (General William Booth enters Heaven).
- 1879 - Birth of Vachel Lindsay in Springfield, Illinois, USA; poet (Johnny Appleseed).
- 1880 - Birth of Jacob Epstein; sculptor (Adam, Jacob and the Angel).
- 1882 - Birth of Frances Perkins; Cabinet member (Secretary of Labor 1933-45).
- 1885 - The North, Central, and South American Exposition opens in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
- 1889 - Birth of Claude Rains in London, England; actor (Invisible Man, Casablanca).
- 1895 - Birth of John Knudsen Northrop; aircraft designer (Northrop Air).
- 1907 - Birth of Jane Froman in Columbia, Missouri, USA; singer ("I Only Have Eyes for You", "I'll Walk Alone", "I Believe", Jane Froman's USA Canteen TV show).
- 1911 - Birth of Harry Andrews in Kent, England; actor (Equus, Man of La Mancha).
- 1916 - Birth of Billy May in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; orchestra leader (The Milton Berle Show).
- 1916 - Birth of Guido Turchi in Rome, Italy; composer (Invettiva).
- 1917 - 41 suffragists are arrested in front of the White House.
- 1918 - British and Indian force Indian Expeditionary Force "D" takes control of Mosul (Iraq).
- 1918 - Birth of Jack McCoy in Akron, Ohio, USA; TV host (Live Like a Millionaire).
- 1919 - First observance of National Book Week.
- 1919 - American Legion holds its first national convention (Minneapolis, Minnesota).
- 1919 - Birth of George Fenneman in China; announcer and host (You Bet Your Life radio and TV shows, Dragnet, Your Funny, Funny Films, Anybody Can Play).
- 1919 - Birth of Clyde Douglas Turner AKA Bulldog Turner; NFL center (Chicago Bears).
- 1919 - Birth of Moise Tshombe; President of Katanga, then premier of the Congo (Zaire).
- 1924 - Birth of Russell Johnson; actor (Gilligan's Island).
- 1925 - Birth of Richard Burton AKA Richard Walter Jenkins Junior in Wales; actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf), narrator (Winston Churchill - The Valiant Years).
- 1926 - Vincent Massey becomes first Canadian minister to USA.
- 1928 - Hirohito enthroned as Emperor of Japan.
- 1930 - Birth of Clarence M Pendleton Junior; chairman of US Commission on Civil Rights (1981-88).
- 1934 - Birth of Norm Cash in Eldorado, Texas, USA; first baseman (Detroit Tigers).
- 1935 - Birth of Pippa Scott in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Virginian, Mr Lucky).
- 1935 - Birth of Ronald E Evans in Saint Francis, Kansas, USA; Captain US Navy/astronaut (Apollo 17).
- 1935 - Birth of Roy Scheider in Orange, New Jersey, USA; actor (All That Jazz, Jaws).
- 1937 - Birth of Albert Hall in Boothton, Alabama, USA; actor (Trouble in Mind, Ryan's Four, Ally McBeal, Young and the Restless).
- 1938 - Adolf Hitler makes a long speech to several hundred German newspaper editors and publishers in Berlin. He instructs the press to prepare the public for further moves of expansion. He tells them that Germany has the world's largest single group of any race: 80 million, that Germany was the greatest of Empires, became a small power, but now is in a period of regeneration.
- 1938 - Kemal Ataturk, first President of Turkey, dies.
- 1940 - Pittsburgh and Philadelphia play a penalty-free NFL game.
- 1944 - Birth of Dave Loggins; singer ("Please Come to Boston").
- 1944 - Birth of Tim Rice; lyricist ("Chess Moves", "One Night in Bangkok").
- 1945 - Birth of Donna Fargo in North Carolina, USA; country singer ("Happiest Girl in Whole USA").
- 1945 - College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0.
- 1945 - General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania.
- 1946 - Birth of Alaina Reed in Springfield, Ohio, USA; actress (Rose Lee Holloway - 227).
- 1946 - Birth of David Stockman; US President Ronald Reagan's budget director.
- 1947 - Birth of Greg Lake; Singer-guitarist (Emerson, Lake and Palmer).
- 1948 - Birth of Greg Lake; rock guitarist (Emerson, Lake and Palmer - "Tarkus").
- 1949 - Birth of Ann Reinking in Seattle, Washington, USA; dancer/actress (All the Jazz, Micki and Maude, Great Performances: Dance in America).
- 1950 - Birth of Jack Scalia in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Berrengers, Hollywood Beat).
- 1950 - Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán is elected President of Guatemala.
- 1951 - First long distance telephone call without operator assistance.
- 1951 - Birth of Jack Scalia; actor (Dallas, Tequila and Bonetti).
- 1954 - Birth of Fernando Allende in Mexico; actor (El Lobo Negro, The Phoenix).
- 1954 - Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag) dedicated in Arlington.
- 1954 - Lieutenant Colonel John Strapp travels 632mph in a rocket sled.
- 1955 - Birth of Jack Clark in Pennsylvania, USA; all star outfielder (New York Giants, Saint Louis Cardinals, New York Yankees, San Diego Padres).
- 1956 - Birth of Sinbad; comedian/actor (Different World, At the Apollo, Sinbad Show).
- 1957 - NFL record crowd (102,368), San Francisco 49ers versus Los Angeles Rams in Los Angeles, California.
- 1959 - Birth of MacKenzie Phillips in Alexandria, Virginia, USA; actress (Julie - One Day at a Time).
- 1961 - Birth of Junior [Norman Giscombe]; rhythm and blues singer ("Mama used to Say").
- 1963 - Gordie Howe takes over NHL career goal lead at 545.
- 1963 - Birth of Tommy Davidson; comedian (In Living Color).
- 1964 - Death of Jimmy Dodd of a staph infection, at age 54, in Oahu, Hawaii, USA; adult host on The Mickey Mouse Club.
- 1964 - Birth of Michael Jai White; actor (Clubhouse, Wonderland).
- 1968 - Death of Gerald Mohr at age 54; actor (Christopher - Foreign Intrigue).
- 1968 - Launch of Zond 6, second unmanned circumlunar and return flight.
- 1968 - Birth of Tracy Morgan; comedian (30 Rock).
- 1969 - National Educational Television in the USA debuts children's educational TV show Sesame Street.
- 1969 - Birth of Ellen Pompeo; actress (Grey's Anatomy).
- 1970 - General Motors signs a deal with holders of the Wankel patents for US$50 million.
- 1970 - Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched.
- 1971 - The US Mint releases Eisenhower copper-nickel dollar coins to circulation.
- 1973 - Birth of Khiry Abdulsamad in Los Angeles, California, USA; rocker (Boys - "Dial My Heart", "Lucky Charm").
- 1973 - The central banks of USA, Belgium, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom abandon their 5-year agreement to not trade gold on the open market.
- 1974 - Second meeting of San Francisco Giants-New York Jets, Jets even series at one with 26-20 overtime win.
- 1974 - Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 11-0.
- 1975 - Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald and crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior.
- 1975 - Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat addresses United Nations in New York City.
- 1975 - United Nations General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism.
- 1975 - Birth of Jim Adkins; singer, guitarist (Jimmy Eat World).
- 1976 - Utah Supreme Court authorizes execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore.
- 1977 - Major Indoor Soccer League officially organized (New York City).
- 1977 - Birth of Brittany Murphy; actress (King of the Hill, Sister Sister).
- 1978 - Israel's top negotiators break away from Middle East peace talks.
- 1978 - New York Yankees trade Lyle, Rajsich, McCall, Heath and Ramos to Texas Rangers for Righetti, Mirabella, Beniquez, Jemison and Griffin.
- 1979 - Birth of Chris Joannou; bassist (Silverchair).
- 1981 - Birth of Jason Dunham; American Medal of Honor recipient (dies 2004).
- 1981 - Walt Disney Productions and Westinghouse Broadcasting announce an agreement to produce a family-oriented cable television service.
- 1982 - Leonid I Brezhnev, Soviet first secretary, dies of a heart attack at age 75 (born 1906).
- 1982 - Birth of Heather Matarazzo; actress (The L Word, Now and Again).
- 1983 - At the Helmsley Palace Hotel in New York City, Microsoft formally announces Microsoft Windows for the IBM PC. This is the most elaborate product introduction in industry history. Windows is promised for release in April, 1984. Bill Gates predicts that by the end of 1984, Windows would be used on over 90 percent of all IBM compatible PCs.
- 1984 - Miami Hurricanes blow 31-0 lead in third quarter, lose to Maryland Terrapins 42-40.
- 1985 - Pelle Lindbergh, Philadelphia Flyers' goalie, dies in drunk driving accident.
- 1986 - Birth of Josh Peck; actor (Drake and Josh).
- 1986 - River Rhine (Germany) polluted by chemical spill.
- 1988 - Major League Baseball All-Star team beats Japan 3-1 in Tokyo (Game 5 of 7).
- 1988 - Orel Hershiser wins National League Cy Young award unanimously.
- 1989 - Germans begin punching holes in the Berlin Wall.
- 1989 - Guerrillas battle with government forces in El Salvador.
- 1989 - After 45 years of Communist rule in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov, who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party.
- 1990 - Lebanon releases two French hostages (Camille Sontag and Marcel Coudari).
- 1990 - Death of Ronnie Dyson at age 40 of heart failure in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; singer ("(If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can't I Touch You?" (1970)).
- 1991 - Marty Glickman broadcasts his 1,000th football game.
- 1992 - Death of Chuck Connors at age 71 of lung cancer and pneumonia; actor (The Rifleman TV show, Arrest and Trial TV show), host (Thrill Seekers TV show).
- 1994 - Death of Carmen McCrae at age 74 at home in Beverly Hills, California, USA; critically acclaimed jazz singer, recognized by the US National Endowment for the Arts in 1993 as a "master of jazz".
- 1995 - With help from Israel and Jordan, United Nations inspector Ritter intercepts 240 Russian gyroscopes and accelerometers on their way to Iraq from Russia.
- 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. This leads to a global boycott of Shell for its oil exploration on Ogoni land.
- 1997 - Telecom companies WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a US$37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom (the largest merger in US history).
- 1997 - A Fairfax, Virginia jury finds Mir Aimal Kasi guilty of murdering two US Central Intelligence Agency employees in 1993.
- 2001 - The People's Republic of China is admitted to the World Trade Organization after 15 years of negotiations.
- 2001 - Australian Prime Minister John Howard is elected to a third term.
- 2001 - Heavy rains and mudslides in Algeria kill more than 900 people.
- 2003 - Death of Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (born 1936).
- 2003 - Death of Irv Kupcinet from pneumonia at age 91; columnist and TV personality (At Random).
- 2006 - Death of Jack Palance at age 87; actor (Bronk and The Greatest Show on Earth TV show, Playhouse 90 - Requiem for a Heavyweight).
- 2007 - At the Ibero-American summit in Santiago, Chile, Spain's prime minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero responds to heckling by Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez by telling him "Why don't you just shut up?".
- 2007 - Death of Laraine Day at age 86; actress (Playhouse 90 TV show).
- 2007 - Death of Norman Mailer, American writer, (born 1923); he won Pulitzer Prizes for The Armies of the Night, and The Executioner's Song.
- 2008 - The US government restructures its bailout of insurance company American International Group, raising the package to a record US$150 billion.
- 2008 - Circuit City Stores, second-largest U.S. consumer electronics retailer, files for bankruptcy protection.
- 2008 - DHL, overnight-delivery company, announces it will shut down its express-delivery service in the USA.
- 2009 - Navies from North and South Korea exchange gunfire for the first time in seven years, damaging vessels on both sides. A North Korean patrol vessel ventures into South Korean territorial waters in the Yellow Sea, sparking a brief firefight.
- 2019 - Bolivia's President Evo Morales resigns and flees to Mexico.
- 2020 - Armenia Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signs agreement to end war over Nagorno-Karabakh.
- 2020 - President Martin Vizcarra of Peru is impeached; head of congress Manuel Merino is sworn in as interim president.
- 2020 - Death of Amadou Toumani Touré, 3rd President of Mali (born 1948).
- 2022 - Death of Nik Turner at age 82; saxophonist (Hawkwind group).
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