|
---|
Birthday November 10, 1483 Martin Luther, in Eisleben, Germany, founder of Protestantism |
Birthday November 10, 1668 Fran‡ois Couperin, composer |
Birthday November 10, 1683 George II, king of England (1727-60) |
Birthday November 10, 1697 William Hogarth, English satiric painter/engraver (Rake's Progress) |
Birthday November 10, 1730 Oliver Goldsmith, Irish novelist, dramatist (She Stoops to Conquer) |
Birthday November 10, 1759 Frederich von Schiller, in Germany, poet |
Birthday November 10, 1793 Jared Kirtland, American physician, naturalist |
Birthday November 10, 1794 Adm. Matthew Perry |
Birthday November 10, 1819 Cyrus West Field, financier, success of 1st transatlantic cable |
Birthday November 10, 1827 Lewis Wallace ('Ben Hur'), Soldier diploman and novelist |
Birthday November 10, 1829 William Booth, founded Salvation Army |
Birthday November 10, 1844 Sir John S.D. Thompson, (C), 4th prime minister of Canada (1892-94) |
Birthday November 10, 1847 Joseph Pulitzer, Journalist and publisher |
Birthday November 10, 1882 Frances Perkins, 1st woman Cabinet member |
Birthday November 10, 1883 Kahlil Gibran |
Birthday November 10, 1895 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer |
Birthday November 10, 1903 Clare Booth Luce, Journalist and Diplomat |
Birthday November 10, 1919 Clyde (Bulldog) Turner, NFL center (Chicago Bears) |
Birthday November 10, 1921 Chuck Connors |
Birthday November 10, 1925 Richard Burton, Welsh Actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf) |
Birthday November 10, 1929 Max von Sydow |
Birthday November 10, 1932 Roy Scheider, star of Jaws, is born |
Birthday November 10, 1932 Omar Sharif |
Birthday November 10, 1933 Ronald E. Evans, astronaut (Apollo 17) |
Birthday November 10, 1936 John Madden |
Birthday November 10, 1946 David Stockman, ex-budget director |
Birthday November 10, 1949 Donna Fargo, in North Carolina |
Birthday November 10, 1949 Ann Reinking, in Seattle Washington |
Birthday November 10, 1959 MacKenzie Phillips, in Alexandra Va (One Day at a Time) |
History November 10, 1775 US Marine Corps established by Congress |
History November 10, 1775 Birth of the U.S. Marine Corps |
History November 10, 1801 Kentucky outlaws dueling |
History November 10, 1808 Osage Indians cede Missouri and Arkansas lands |
History November 10, 1836 Louis Napoleon banished to America |
History November 10, 1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico |
History November 10, 1865 Henry Wirz hanged |
History November 10, 1871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji Central Africa |
History November 10, 1891 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston) |
History November 10, 1903 Mary Anderson patents windshield wiper |
History November 10, 1928 Remarque publishes All Quiet on the Western Front |
History November 10, 1928 Hirohito crowned in Japan |
History November 10, 1942 Germans take Vichy France |
History November 10, 1945 Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by US |
History November 10, 1950 Jacobo Arbenz Guzm n elected pres of Guatemala |
History November 10, 1951 1st Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance |
History November 10, 1958 Future country legend Conway Twitty earns a #1 hit as a rock-and-roll idol |
History November 10, 1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill |
History November 10, 1963 Nuclear sub Thresher went down 220 miles east of Boston |
History November 10, 1964 McNamara says that U.S. has no plans to send combat troops to Vietnam |
History November 10, 1968 USSR launches Zond 6 to moon |
History November 10, 1969 Sesame Street premiers |
History November 10, 1970 No U.S. combat fatalities reported |
History November 10, 1970 Luna 17 with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1 is launched |
History November 10, 1971 Khmer Rouge forces attack Phnom Penh airport |
History November 10, 1971 US table tennis team arrived in China |
History November 10, 1973 Slaughterhouse-Five is burned in North Dakota |
History November 10, 1975 Cargo ship suddenly sinks in Lake Superior |
History November 10, 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior |
History November 10, 1975 Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald lost in a storm on Lake Superior |
History November 10, 1975 PLO leader Yasser Arafat speaks at UN |
History November 10, 1978 Yanks trade Lyle Rajsich McCall Heath & Ramos to Texas for Righetti Mirabella Beniquez Jemison & Griffin |
History November 10, 1980 Voyager I flies past Saturn |
History November 10, 1982 Leonid Brezhnev dies |
History November 10, 1984 Maryland gets a miracle in Miami |
History November 10, 1995 Playwright and activist hanged in Nigeria |
History November 10, 1997 Judge reduces sentence in nanny murder case |
History November 10, 2001 Bush addresses the United Nations regarding terrorism |