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Tuesday, 10 November 2015

Today in History [10th November, 2015]

A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
November 10
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")

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