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Events [ ] 1444 - Battle of Varna : The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland ) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed.1520 - Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden .1619 - René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy 1674 - Anglo-Dutch War : As provided in the Treaty of Westminster , Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England .1766 - The last Colonial governor of New Jersey , William Franklin , signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University ).1775 - The United States Marine Corps was founded.1865 - Major Henry Wirz , the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia , is hanged , becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes .1871 - Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji , near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"1910 - The date of Thomas A. Davis ' openning of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy , though the official founding date is November 23 , 1910.1919 - The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis (convention ended on November 12 ).1924 - Dion O'Banion , leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio 's gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.1928 - Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan , Emperor Showa.1928 - Playing against Army at Yankee Stadium , Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne gives what is considered the greatest locker room speeches of all time by saying "Win one for the Gipper ." The Fighting Irish would win the game 12-6.1938 - Kate Smith , on her weekly radio show, sings Irving Berlin 's God Bless America 1938 - The death of the founder of the Republic of Turkey , Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1940 - Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI ; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.1942 - World War II : Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa .1944 - Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded at Seeadler Harbour , Manus , Admiralty Islands 1945 - Heavy battle in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).1951 - Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States .1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery .1958 - The Hope Diamond was donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston .1969 - National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service ) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street 1970 - Vietnam War : Vietnamization - For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia .1970 - Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 launched.
1971 - In Cambodia , Khmer Rouge forces attack the city Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine airplanes .1972 - Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory . After two days, the plane lands in Havana , Cuba , where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro .1975 - The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior , killing all 29 crew on board.1975 - United Nations Resolution 3379 : United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution was repealed in December 1991 with Resolution 4686 ).
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.1997 - WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).2006 - Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj assassinated in Colombo .Births [ ] 745 - Musa al-Kazim , Shia Imam (d. 799 )1341 - Henry Percy , English statesman (d. 1408 )1433 - Charles (d. 1477 )1480 - Bridget of York , English princess and nun (d. 1517 )1483 - Martin Luther , German Protestant reformer (d. 1546 )1565 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus , Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646 )1566 - Robert Devereux , English politician (d. 1601 )1577 - Jacob Cats , Dutch poet, jurist and politician (d. 1660 )1620 - Ninon de l'Enclos , french courtesan and writer (d. 1705)1668 - Louis III (d. 1710 )1668 - François Couperin , French composer (d. 1733 )
1683 - George II of Great Britain (d. 1760 )1695 - John Bevis , English physician and astronomer (d. 1771 )1697 - William Hogarth , English artist (d. 1764 )1710 - Adam Gottlob Moltke , Danish statesman (d. 1792 )1728 - Oliver Goldsmith , English playwright (d. 1774 )1735 - Granville Sharp , English campaigner for the abolition of slavery (d. 1813 )1759 - Friedrich von Schiller , German writer (d. 1805 )1801 - Samuel Gridley Howe , American social reformer (d. 1876 )1801 - Vladimir Dal , Russian lexicographer (d. 1872 )
1810 - George Jennings Sanitary engineer (d. 1882 )1844 - Henry Eyster Jacobs , American Lutheran theologian (d. 1932 )1845 - Sir John Sparrow David Thompson , fourth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1894 )1850 - Arthur Goring Thomas , English composer (d. 1892 )1868 - Gichin Funakoshi , father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo (d. 1957 )1871 - Winston Churchill , American novelist (d. 1947 )1878 - Cy Morgan , American baseball player (d. 1962 )1879 - Vachel Lindsay , American poet (d. 1931 )1880 - Jacob Epstein , American-born sculptor (d. 1959 )1887 - Arnold Zweig , German author (d. 1968 )1888 - Andrei Tupolev , Russian aircraft designer (d. 1972 )1889 - Claude Rains , English actor (d. 1967 )1892 - Mabel Normand , American silent actress (d. 1930 )
1893 - John P. Marquand , American writer (d. 1960 )1895 - John Knudsen Northrop , American airplane manufacturer (d. 1981 )1896 - Jimmie Dykes , American baseball player and manager (d. 1976 )1906 - Josef Kramer , commandant of Bergen Belsen concentration camp (d. 1945 )1907 - Jane Froman , American actor and singer (d. 1980 )1909 - Paweł Jasienica , Polish historian (d. 1970 )1912 - Birdie Tebbetts , American baseball player and manager (d. 1999 )1916 - Billy May , American composer, arranger and bandleader (d. 2004 )1918 - Ernst Otto Fischer , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007 )1919 - Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov , Russian inventor1919 - George Fenneman , American radio and television announcer (d. 1997 )
1919 - Moise Tshombe , Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1969 )
1919 - François Périer , French actor (d. 2002 )
1920 - Jennifer Holt , American actress (d. 1997 )1920 - Rafael del Pino , Spanish entrepreneur
1924 - Russell Johnson , American actor (Gilligan's Island )1925 - Richard Burton , Welsh actor (d. 1984 )1928 - Ennio Morricone , Italian composer1929 - Marilyn Bergman , American composer and songwriter1932 - Roy Scheider , American actor1933 - Ronald Evans , American astronaut (d. 1990 )1934 - Lucien Bianchi , Belgian racing driver (d. 1969 )1935 - Igor Dmitrievich Novikov , Russian astrophysicist1935 - Bernard Babior , American biochemist
1939 - Russell Means , Native American activist1939 - Allan Moffat , Canadian-Australian race car driver
1940 - Screaming Lord Sutch , English musician and politician (d. 1999 )1941 - Kyu Sakamoto , Japanese singer and actor (d. 1985 )1942 - Robert F. Engle , American economist, Nobel laureate 1942 - Hans-Rudolf Merz , Swiss Federal Councilor
1943 - Saxby Chambliss , American politician1944 - Silvestre Reyes , American politician1944 - Sir Tim Rice , English lyricist
1945 - Donna Fargo , American singer1947 - Greg Lake , British musician1947 - Glen Buxton , American musician (Alice Cooper ) (d. 1997 )
1947 - Dave Loggins , American songwriter and singer
1948 - Vincent Schiavelli , American actor (d. 2005 )1948 - Aaron Brown , American broadcast journalist
1948 - Hugh Moffatt , American songwriter
1949 - Ann Reinking , American dancer1950 - Debra Hill , American screenwriter and film producer (d. 2005 )1952 - Gerry DiNardo , American football coach1954 - Mario Cipollina , American bass player (Huey Lewis & the News )1955 - James Chapman , American novelist1955 - Jack Clark , American baseball player
1955 - Roland Emmerich , German film producer and director
1956 - Mohsen Badawi , Egyptian entrepreneur, political activist and writer1956 - Sinbad , American actor
1958 - Massimo Morsello , Italian singer1958 - Brooks Williams , American musician
1958 - Stephen Herek , American film director
1959 - Linda Cohn , American sports reporter1959 - Mackenzie Phillips , American actress
1959 - Nancy Cartwright , American voice actress (Known among the voices of Bart Simpson , Nelson Muntz , Todd Flanders and Ralph Wiggum in The Simpsons )1960 - Neil Gaiman , English writer1960 - Dan Hawkins , American College Football Coach1961 - John Walton , English darts player1961 - Rudolf Grimm , Austrian physics professor
1963 - Hugh Bonneville , English actor1964 - Kenny Rogers , American baseball player1964 - Magnús Scheving , Icelandic athlete1965 - Eddie Irvine , Northern Irish racecar driver1965 - Jamie Dixon , American basketball coach
1966 - Vanessa Angel , English actress1968 - Steve Brookstein , English X Factor winner1968 - Tracy Morgan , American actor/comedian1969 - Ellen Pompeo , American actress1969 - Faustino Asprilla , Colombian footballer
1969 - Jens Lehmann , German footballer
1970 - Warren G , American rapper1970 - Freddy Loix , Belgian rally driver
1972 - Shawn Green , American baseball player1973 - Patrik Berger , Czech footballer1975 - Jim Adkins , American musician1976 - Steffen Iversen , Norwegian footballer1976 - Shefki Kuqi , Finnish footballer
1977 - Brittany Murphy , American actress1977 - Matt Cepicky , American baseball player
1978 - Eve , American rapper1978 - Kyla Cole , Slovak adult actress
1980 - Troy Bell , American basketball player1980 - Red Cordell , American television personality
1981 - Tony Blanco , American baseball player1981 - Jason L. Dunham , American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2004 )
1981 - Alison Waite , American model and Playboy Playmate
1982 - Heather Matarazzo , American actress1983 - Miranda Lambert , American singer1983 - Craig Smith , American basketball player
1984 - Kendrick Perkins , American basketball player1985 - Giovonnie Samuels , American television actress1986 - Josh Peck , American Actor, best known for his role on Nickelodeon 's Drake & Josh 1987 - Jessica Tovey , Australian actressDeaths [ ] 627 - Justus , Archbishop of Canterbury 901 - Adelaide of Paris , Queen of Western Francia1444 - King Vladislaus III of Varna is killed in battle (b. 1424 )1549 - Pope Paul III (b. 1468 )1556 - Richard Chancellor , English explorer, dies in shipwreck off Scotland1596 - Peter Wentworth , English Puritan politician (b. 1530 )1605 - Ulisse Aldrovandi , Italian naturalist (b. 1522 )1617 - Barnabe Rich , English soldier and writer1624 - Henry Wriothesley , English patron of the theater (b. 1573 )1644 - Luís Vélez de Guevara , Spanish writer (b. 1579 )1673 - Michał Wiśniowiecki (b. 1640 )1727 - Alphonse de Tonty , French explorer and American settler (b. 1659 )1728 - Fyodor Apraksin , Russian admirals (b. 1661 )1772 - Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção , Portuguese poet (b. 1724 )1777 - Cornstalk , Shawnee chief1808 - Guy Carleton , British soldier and Governor of Quebec (b. 1724 )1848 - Christian VIII of Denmark , King of Denmark (b. 1786 )1891 - Arthur Rimbaud , French poet, (b. 1854 )1909 - Renee Vivien , American poet (b. 1877 )1909 - George Essex Evans , Australian poet (b. 1863 )
1912 - Louis Cyr , Canadian strongman (b. 1863 )1917 - Harry Trott , Australian cricketer (b. 1866 )1936 - Louis Gustave Binger , French officer and explorer (b. 1856 )1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk , founder and the first President of Turkey (b. 1881 )1964 - Jimmie Dodd , American actor (b. 1910 )1975 - Ernest M. McSorley , American ship captain (b. 1912 )1981 - Abel Gance , French film director, producer, and actor (b. 1889 )1982 - Leonid Brezhnev , General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1906 )1985 - Pelle Lindbergh , Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1959 )1986 - King Clancy , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (b. 1903 )1990 - Aurelio Monteagudo , Cuban baseball player (b. 1943 )1990 - Mário Schenberg , Brazilian physicist (b. 1914 )
1991 - William Afflis , American professional wrestler (b. 1929 )1991 - Madico Fs , Australian professional wrestler (b. 1929 )1992 - Chuck Connors , American actor, baseball and basketball player (b. 1921 )1994 - Carmen McRae , American singer (b. 1920 )1995 - Ken Saro-Wiwa , Nigerian writer and activist (b. 1941 )1997 - Tommy Tedesco , American musician (b. 1930 )1998 - Mary Millar , English actress (b. 1936 )2000 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas , Prime Minister of France (b. 1915 )2001 - Ken Kesey , American author (b. 1935 )2002 - Michel Boisrond , French film director (b. 1921 )2003 - Canaan Banana , first President of Zimbabwe (b. 1936 )
2003 - Irv "Kup" Kupcinet , American columnist and television personality (b. 1912 )
2006 - Diana Coupland , British comedy actress (b. 1932 )2006 - Gerald Levert , American singer (b. 1966 )
2006 - Jack Palance , American actor (b. 1919 )
2006 - Nadarajah Raviraj , Sri Lankan politician (b. 1962 )
2007 - Laraine Day , American actress (b. 1920 )2007 - Augustus F. Hawkins , American politician and civil rights lawmaker (b. 1907 )
2007 - Norman Mailer , American author (b. 1923 ) Holidays and observances [ ] External links [ ]
113 Familypedia people were born on November 10
130 Familypedia people died on November 10
99 Familypedia people were first married on November 10
