On this day in History - Nov. 10

• 0627 - Justus dies. Archbishop of Canterbury
• 0745 - Musa al-Kazim was born (d. 0799). Shia Imam.
• 1241 - Pope Celestine IV Gofredo Castiglioni) dies. He was elected during the papal warfare with Frederick Barbarossa, and reigned only 15 days.
• 1341 - Henry Percy was born (d, 1408). 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman.
• 1433 - Charles, Duke of Burgundy was born (d. 1477)
• 1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Ladislaus III of Poland (or Ulaszlo I of Hungary) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Ladislaus is killed.
• 1444 - King Wladislaus III of Poland dies killed in battle (b. 1424)
• 1483 - Martin Luther was born (d. 1546). German protestant reformer.
• 1520 - Danish King Christian II executes 82 in the Stockholm Bloodbath.
• 1549 - Pope Paul III dies (b. 1468)
• 1565 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus was born (d. 1646). Swedish theologian and astronomer.
• 1566 - Robert Devereux was born (d. 1601). 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician.
• 1577 - Jacob Cats was birn (d. 1660). Dutch poet, jurist and politician.
• 1596 - Peter Wentworth dies (b. 1530). English Puritan politician.
• 1605 - Ulisse Aldrovandi dies (b. 1522). Italian naturalist.
• 1617 - Barnabe Rich dies. English soldier and writer.
• 1619 - René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
• 1624 - Henry Wriothesley dies (b. 1573). 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater.
• 1644 - Luís Vélez de Guevara dies (b. 1579). Spanish writer.
• 1668 - Louis III, Prince of Condé was born (d. 1710)
• 1668 - François Couperin was born (d. 1733). French composer.
• 1673 - Michał Wiśniowiecki dies (b. 1640). King of Poland
• 1674 - Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
• 1683 - George II of Great Britain was born (d. 1760)
• 1695 - John Bevis was born (d. 1771). English physician and astronomer.
• 1697 - William Hogarth was born (d. 1764). English artist.
• 1710 - Adam Gottlob Moltke was born (d. 1792). Danish statesman.
• 1727 - Alphonse de Tonty dies (b. 1659). French explorer and American settler.
• 1728 - Fyodor Apraksin dies. One of the first Russian admirals
• 1728 - Oliver Goldsmith was born (d. 1774). English playwright.
• 1735 - Granville Sharp was born (d. 1813). English campaigner for the abolition of slavery
• 1759 - Friedrich von Schiller was born (d. 1805). German writer
• 1764 - Andrés Manuel del Río was born in Madrid (d. 1849). Spanish chemist and minerologist.
• 1766 - The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
• 1772 - Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção dies (b. 1724). Portuguese poet.
• 1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress passes a resolution creating the Continental Marines (later renamed the United States Marine Corps) to serve as landing troops for the recently created Continental Navy.
• 1777 - Cornstalk dies. Shawnee chief
• 1792 - The White House: Construction begins by placing of the cornerstone.
• 1801 - Samuel Gridley Howe was born (d. 1876). American social reformer.
• 1801 - Vladimir Dal was born (d. 1872). Russian lexicographer.
• 1808 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester dies (b. 1724). British soldier and Governor of Quebec.
• 1810 - Panamá: Primer Grito de Independencia en la Heroica Villa de Los Santos.
• 1844 - Henry Eyster Jacobs was born (d. 1932). American Lutheran theologian.
• 1845 - Sir John Sparrow David Thompson was born. Fourth Prime Minister of Canada
• 1850 - Arthur Goring Thomas was born. English composer.
• 1855 - Mouzinho de Albuquerque was born. Portuguese militar.
• 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.
• 1868 - Gichin Funakoshi was born (d. 1957). Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo.
• 1871 - Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
• 1871 - Winston Churchill was born (d. 1947). American novelist.
• 1875 - "Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa" is founded (Portugal).
• 1878 - Cy Morgan was born (d. 1962). Baseball player.
• 1879 - Vachel Lindsay was born (d. 1931). American poet.
• 1880 - Jacob Epstein was born (d. 1959). American-born sculptor.
• 1887 - Arnold Zweig was born (d. 1968). German author.
• 1888 - Andrei Tupolev was born (d. 1972). Russian aircraft designer.
• 1889 - Claude Rains was born (d. 1967). English actor.
• 1890 - Carlos Gardel was born (d. 24 Jun 1935). Argentinian singer and composer (Tango).
• 1891 - Arthur Rimbaud dies (b. 1854). French poet.
• 1893 - John P. Marquand was born (d. 1960). American writer.
• 1895 - John Knudsen Northrop was born (d. 1981). American airplane manufacturer.
• 1896 - Jimmy Dykes was born (d. 1976). Baseball player and manager
• 1907 - Jane Froman was born (d. 1980). American actor and singer.
• 1909 - Paweł Jasienica was born (d. 1970). Polish historian.
• 1909 - Renee Vivien dies (b. 1877). American poet.
• 1912 - Louis Cyr dies (b. 1863). Canadian strongman.
• 1912 - Birdie Tebbetts was born (d. 1999). Baseball player and manager.
• 1913 - Álvaro Cunhal was born (d. 13 Jun 2005 ). Portuguese politician, anti-fascist resistent and secretary-general of PCP (Portuguese Comunist Party).
• 1918 - Ernst Otto Fischer was born. German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1919 - Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov was bon. Russian inventor.
• 1919 - Moise Tshombe was born (d. 1969). Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 1919 - The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota (convention ended on November 12).
• 1920 - Rafael del Pino was born. Spanish entrepreneur
• 1924 - Russell Johnson was born. American actor (Gilligan's Island)
• 1925 - Richard Burton was born (d. 1984). Welsh actor
• 1926 - In San Francisco, California, a necrophiliac serial killer named Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, Mrs. William Edmonds.
• 1928 - Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan.
• 1928 - Ennio Morricone was born. Italian composer
• 1932 - Roy Scheider was born. American actor.
• 1933 - Luiz Sergio Coelho Sampaio was born (d. 2003). Brazilian philosopher and author.
• 1933 - Ronald Evans was born (d. 1990). American astronaut.
• 1935 - Igor Dmitrievich Novikov was born. Russian astrophisicist
• 1938 - Kate Smith, on her weekly radio show, sings Irving Berlin's God Bless America for the first time.
• 1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk dies (b. 1881). First President of Turkey.
• 1939 - Allan Moffat was born. Canadian-Australian race car driver
• 1940 - Walt Disney begins serving as a informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood "subversives".
• 1940 - Russell Means was born. American activist
• 1940 - Screaming Lord Sutch was born. English musician.
• 1941 - Kyu Sakamoto was born (d. 1985). Japanese singer and actor.
• 1942 - Robert F. Engle was born. American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1942 - Hans-Rudolf Merz was born. Swiss Federal Councilor
• 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
• 1944 - Silvestre Reyes was born. American politician
• 1944 - Sir Tim Rice was born. English composer
• 1944 - Miguel Cadilhe was born. Portuguese economist and politician.
• 1945 - Heavy battle in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
• 1945 - Donna Fargo was born. American singer.
• 1947 - Greg Lake was born. British musician
• 1947 - Glen Buxton was born (d. 1997). American musician (Alice Cooper).
• 1947 - Dave Loggins was born. American songwriter and singer
• 1948 - Hugh Moffatt was born. Country music songwriter
• 1948 - Vincent Schiavelli was born (d. 2005). American actor.
• 1948 - Greg Lake was born. American musician
• 1949 - Ann Reinking was born. American actress, dancer, and choreographer
• 1951 - Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
• 1952 - Gerry DiNardo was born. American football coach
• 1954 - Mario Cipollina was born. American bass player (Huey Lewis & the News)
• 1954 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
• 1955 - Jack Clark was born. Baseball player.
• 1955 - Roland Emmerich was born. German film producer and director
• 1956 - Sinbad was born. American actor and comedian
• 1958 - Massimo Morsello was born. Italian singer and activist .
• 1958 - Myrian Rios was born.Brazilian actress.
• 1958 - Brooks Williams was born. American musician.
• 1958 - Stephen Herek, American film director
• 1959 - Linda Cohn was born. American sports reporter
• 1959 - Mackenzie Phillips was born. American actress
• 1960 - Neil Gaiman was born. English writer
• 1963 - Mike Powell was born. American athlete.
• 1964 - Kenny Rogers was born. Baseball player.
• 1965 - Jamie Dixon was born. NCAA basketball coach.
• 1965 - Eddie Irvine was born. Irish race car driver.
• 1966 - Vanessa Angel was born. English actress.
• 1969 - Jens Lehmann was born. German goalkeeper (football)
• 1969 - Ellen Pompeo was born. American actress
• 1969 - Faustino Asprilla was born. Colombian footballer
• 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 - Warren G was born. American rapper
• 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.
• 1972 - Shawn Green was born. Baseball player
• 1973 - Patrik Berger was born. Czech football player
• 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).
• 1975 - Jim Adkins was born. American musician.
• 1975 - Ernest M. McSorley dies (b. 1912). Great Lakes Shipping Captain.
• 1976 - Steffen Iversen was born. Norwegian football player
• 1976 - Shefki Kuqi was born. Finnish football player
• 1977 - Brittany Murphy was born. American actress
• 1977 - Matt Cepicky was born. American baseball player
• 1978 - Eve was born. American rapper (Sunil)
• 1978 - Kyla Cole was born. Slovak adult actress
• 1980 - Troy Bell was born. Basketball player
• 1981 - Tony Blanco was born. American baseball player.
• 1981 - Abel Gance dies (b.1889). French film director, producer and actor.
• 1982 - Leonid Brezhnev dies (b. 1906). Ruler of the Soviet Union.
• 1982 - Yuri Andropov is named secretary-general of the URSS Comunist Party
• 1983 - Miranda Lambert was born. American singer.
• 1983 - Craig Smith was born. American basketball player.
• 1984 - Kendrick Perkins was born. American basketball player
• 1985 - Pelle Lindbergh dies (b. 1959). Swedish hockey player.
• 1985 - Ricki-Lee Coulter was born. Australian singer
• 1985 - Giovonnie Samuels was born. American television actress.
• 1986 - King Clancy dies (b. 1903). National Hockey League player, coach and referee.
• 1986 - Josh Peck was born. American actor.
• 1987 - Mason Aguirre was born. American snowboarder.
• 1988 - Torquato de Sousa Soares dies, Portuguese teacher and medievalist
• 1989 - After 35 years of communist rule in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by former Prime Minister Petre Mladenov who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party.
• 1990 - Aurelio Monteagudo dies (b. 1943). Baseball player.
• 1990 - Mário Schenberg dies (b. 1914), Brazilian physicist, politician and critic of art.
• 1991 - William Afflis dies (b. 1929). Wrestler.
• 1992 - Chuck Connors dies (b. 1921). American actor, baseball and basketball player.
• 1994 - Carmen McRae dies (b. 1920). American singer.
• 1994 - Louis Nizer dies (b. 1902). British writer.
• 1994 - José Cutileiro é eleito secretário-geral da União da Europa Ocidental (UEO).
• 1995 - Ken Saro-Wiwa dies (b. 1941). Nigerian writer and activist.
• 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 - Telcoms WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
• 1997 - A jury in Fairfax, Virginia finds Mir Aimal Kasi guilty of the murder of two CIA employees in 1993.
• 1997 - Seymour Hersh's book "The Dark Side of Camelot" is published; it includes allegations of explicit photos of John F. Kennedy with various sex partners having been taken.
• 1997 - 19-year-old British au pair Louise Woodward, convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in a baby-shaking death less than two weeks ago, has her conviction reduced to involuntary manslaughter and her sentence reduced to time served.
• 2000 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas dies (b. 1915). French politician, prime minister of France
• 2001 - Ken Kesey dies (b. 1935). American author.
• 2002 - A tornado outbreak hits the Upper Ohio Valley leading to several deaths
• 2002 - Michel Boisrond dies (b. 1921). French film director.
• 2003 - Canaan Banana dies (b. 1936). First President of Zimbabwe
• 2003 - Irv "Kup" Kupcinet dies murdered (b. 1912). American columnist and television personality.
• 2004 - John Ashcroft and Don Evans resign their posts as U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Secretary of Commerce respectively.
• Ancient Latvia - Martini
• Turkey - Day of Rememberence of Ataturk
• Russia - Day of Militsiya (analogue of police in Russia)
• United States Marine Corps Birthday
• Argentina - Tradition Day