November 10

November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th every 4 years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 51 days remaining until the end of the year.

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