This Day in History for 10th November

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 161

911 - Conrad I elecect German King
1444 - Battle at Varna, Black Sea: Sultan Murad II beats crusaders
1526 - John I Zapolyai of Transsylvania chosen as king of Hungary
1544 - Antwerps painter John Matsys banished
1567 - Battle at St-Denis: French government army vs Huguenots
1584 - Willem Louis of Nassau appointed viceroy of Friesland
1619 - René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
1630 - Failed palace revolution against Richelieu France
1674 - Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English
1687 - Pope Innocent XI publishes decree Coelestis pastor
1697 - English parliament accept army reduction
1766 - The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
1775 - Congress forms US Marine Corps
1785 - Netherlands & France signs treaty
1793 - France ends forced worship of God
1801 - Kentucky outlaws dueling
1808 - Osage Treaty signed
1834 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from Valparaiso
1836 - Louis Napoleon banished to America
Naturalist Charles Darwin 1847 - The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
1864 - Kingston, GA burned during Sherman's March to Sea
1866 - Gold coins from the Sydney Mint become legal tender in Canada
1871 - Henry M Stanley in Ujiji, Central Africa says "Dr Livingstone, I presume?"
1878 - Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bespridannitsa," premieres in Moscow
1883 - Toronto Argonauts defeat Ottawa FC 9-7, for 1st ORFU Championship
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler's motorcycle, world's 1st, unveiled
1891 - 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
1891 - Granville T Woods patents electric railway
1892 - 1st CRU championship game: Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal, 45-5
1894 - Fred Lugard signs accord with king Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki
1898 - Race riot in Wilmington NC (8 blacks killed)
1905 - Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia
1908 - 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room
1910 - The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
1911 - Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corp (for scholarly & charitable works)
1911 - Imperial army recaptures Nanking (blood bath)
1917 - 41 suffragists are arrested in front of White House
1917 - Faure's 2nd Violo Sonate, premieres
1917 - New soviet government suspends freedom of press (temporary)
1918 - German emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherland
1918 - Independence of Poland proclaimed by Józef Pilsudski
1918 - The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, NS received a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, ON and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
1919 - 1st observance of National Book Week
1919 - American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis)
Playwright George Bernard Shaw 1920 - George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House," premieres in NYC
1923 - German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany
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.
1926 - Bradman plays his 1st State selection trial He only made 37
1926 - Guomindang-regring deallocates seat of Kanton to Wuhan (Hankou)
1926 - Vincent Massey becomes 1st Canadian minister to USA
1928 - Hirohito ascended throne as Emperor of Japan
1933 - Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic
1937 - Brazilian dictator Getulio Vargas proclaims "Estado novo"
1938 - 8.3 earthquake shakes East of Shumagin Islands, Alaska
1938 - Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)
1940 - Pittsburgh & Philadelphia play a penalty free NFL game
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 - Philip Barry's "Without Love," premieres in NYC
1942 - US troops occupy airport of Port-Lyautey Morocco
Animator Walter Elias Disney 1942 - US-British troops occupies Oran Algeria
1944 - German riots in Rotterdam/Schiedam 52,000 men sent to Germany
1944 - US 9th Army takes Margraten cemetery
1944 - Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands
1945 - "Are You with It?" opens at Century Theater NYC for 264 performances
1945 - College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0
1945 - General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania
1945 - Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by US
1945 - Heavy battle in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
1946 - Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election
1950 - After 9 years, Cleve Indians fire manager Lou Boudreau
1950 - Clifford Odet's "Country Girl," premieres in NYC
1950 - Jacobo Arbenz Guzman elected pres of Guatemala
1950 - Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner
1950 - Spanish dictator Franco ends war in Gibraltar
Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco 1951 - 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance
1952 - Trygve Halvdan Lie resigns as 1st secretary-genraal of UN
1953 - Giants end their tour of Japan (players got $331 of $3,000 promised)
1954 - Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag) dedicated in Arlington
1954 - Lt Col John Strapp travels 632 MPH in a rocket sled
1955 - "Vamp" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 60 performances
1956 - Gene de Paul/John Meyer's musical "Li'l Abner," premieres in NYC
1957 - NFL record crowd (102,368), '49ers vs Rams in LA
1957 - Cleveland Browns' Don Paul sets club record for longest fumble return with a 89-yard run (and TD), beating Pittsburgh 24-0
1958 - Bertolt Brecht's "Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo o Ui," premieres
1958 - WUFT TV channel 5 in Gainesville, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 - Corinne Rottschaeffer elected Miss World
1960 - Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
1962 - "Nowhere to Go, But Up" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 9 perfs
1963 - Gordie Howe takes over NHL career goal lead at 545
1963 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open
1964 - "Something More!" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 15 perfs
1964 - Braves sign a 25-year lease to play in the new Atlanta stadium
1965 - Manneke Piss statue stolen in Brussels
1965 - Willie Mays wins NL MVP
1966 - Jack Lynch becomes Irish premier
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon
1967 - KXNE TV channel 19 in Norfolk, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1968 - Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight
1968 - Portuguese socialist Mario Soares freed

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 236

745 - Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (d. 799)
1341 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408)
1433 - Charles of Charolais, the Bold, Duke of Burgundy/polyglot
1467 - Charles of Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen [or Nov 9]
1480 - Bridget of York, English princess and nun (d. 1517)
1483 - Martin Luther, Eisleben Germany, founded Protestantism, (d.1546)
1565 - Robert Devereux 2nd Earl of Essex/cousin/lover of Elizabeth I
1565 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646)
1577 - Jacob Cats, [Father Cats], Dutch grand pensionary/poet (Houwelyck)
1620 - Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtesan and writer (d. 1705)
1636 - Francesco Passarini, composer
1668 - Francois Couperin, Paris France, composer/organist (Concerts Royaux)
1668 - Louis III, Prince of Condé (d. 1710)
1679 - Johann Christian Schieferdecker, composer
1683 - George II [August], king of England (1727-60)
1694 - Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer
1695 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)
1697 - William Hogarth, England, satiric painter/engraver (Rake's Progress)
1704 - Carlo Zuccari, composer
Founder of Protestanism Martin Luther (1483) 1710 - Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (d. 1792)
1719 - Georg Philipp Kress, composer
1730 - Oliver Goldsmith, Ireland, novelist/dramatist (She Stoops to Conquer) (d. 1774)
1735 - Granville Sharp, English abolishionist (d. 1813)
1759 - Frederich von Schiller, Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy) (d. 1805)
1772 - Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer
1786 - Carl Eberwein, composer
1793 - Jared Kirtland, US, physician/naturalist/reformed penitentiaries
1801 - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872)
1810 - George Jennings English sanitary engineer (d. 1882)
1811 - Louis Kufferath, composer
1819 - Cyrus West Field, financier/success of 1st transatlantic cable
1827 - Alfred Howe Terry, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1830 - Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1833 - Dobri Voynikov, composer
1834 - Jose Hernandez, Argentina poet (MartinFierro)
1834 - Wager Swayne, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
1844 - John S D Thompson, (C), 4th PM of Canada (1892-94)
1844 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian (d. 1932)
1846 - Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer
1846 - Paul Kuczynski, composer
1855 - Josiah Royce, US, philosopher (conception of God)
1861 - Robert T A Innes, Edinburgh Scotland, astronomer (Proxima Centauri)
1864 - Alexandre Levy, composer
1868 - Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist (d. 1957)
1871 - Winston Churchill, US, author (Crisis, Crossing)
1873 - Henri Rabnaud, Paris France, composer (Le Premer Glaire)
1875 - Maude Eburne, Canada, actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman)
1879 - Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, US, poet (Gen William Booth enters Heaven)
1879 - Patrick Pearse, Irish political activist (d. 1916)
1880 - Aart A van Schelven, Dutch church historian (Willem of Orange)
1880 - Jacob Epstein, sculptor (Adam, Jacob & the Angel)
1882 - Max Mell, Austria officer/literary (Donauweibchen)
1883 - Bedrich Antonin Wiedermann, composer
1884 - Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet/author (Bird Phoenix)
1885 - Esther Dale, Beaufort SC, actress (Unfinished Business)
1887 - Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Erziehung vor Verdun)
1888 - Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder
1888 - Hugh Wakefield, Wanstead England, actress (Blithe Spirit)
1889 - Claude Rains, London, actor (Invisible Man, Casablanca)
1891 - Carl Stalling, American film composer (d. 1972)
1893 - John P. Marquand, American writer (d. 1960)
1895 - John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer (Northrop Air)
1896 - Jimmie Dykes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
1902 - Antonio Maria Valencia, composer
1902 - Murk Ozinga, Dutch building historian (Monuments of Curacao)
1904 - Steven Geray, Uzhored Czechoslovakia, actor (French Line)
1906 - Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (d. 1945)
Singer Jane Froman (1907) 1907 - Jane Froman, St Louis Mo, singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen), (d. 1980)
1907 - John Moore, English author (d. 1967)
1908 - Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
1909 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970)
1911 - Harry Andrews, Kent England, actor (Equus, Man of La Mancha)
1912 - Salvador Contreras, composer
1913 - Alvaro Cunhal, Portuguese communist
1913 - Arthur Mullard, comedian
1913 - Thelma Hulbert, painter
1916 - Billy May, Pitts Pa, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show)
1916 - Guido Turchi, Rome Italy, composer (Invettiva)
1918 - Ernst Fischer, German chemist (Nobel 1973)
1918 - Jack McCoy, Akron Ohio, TV host (Live Like a Millionaire)
1918 - Martin Hanley, cricketer (took 1-88 with off-spin in Test for S Afr)
1918 - Oda Blinder, [Yolanda Corsen], Antillean poetess (Doorstep)
1919 - Clyde "Bulldog" Turner, NFL center (Chicago Bears)
1919 - Moise Tshombe, pres of Katanga, then premier of the Congo (Zaire)
1919 - Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Russian inventor
1919 - François Périer, French actor (d. 2002)
1920 - Tod Andrews, NYC, actor (From Hell it Came, Outrage)
1920 - Rafael del Pino, Spanish entrepreneur
1924 - Russell Johnson, actor, (professor-Gilligan's Island)
1925 - Richard Burton, South Wales, actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf)
1927 - Jacob Pleydell-Bouvery 8th earl of Radnor/art collector
1928 - Ennio Morricone, Rome Italy, composer/musician
1928 - Norma Crane, NY, actress (Tea & Sympathy, Fiddler on the Roof)
1928 - William Staveley, British admiral
1929 - Marilyn Bergman, American composer and songwriter
1930 - Clarence M Pendleton Jr, chairman of US comm on Civil Rights (1981-88)
1930 - Gene Conley, MLB player/NBA player
1930 - Toma Prosev, composer
1932 - Roy Scheider, actor (Jaws, French Connection, Marathon Man, Paper Lion) (d. 2008)
1932 - Don Henderson, English actor (d. 1997)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 6 of 6

1926 - Belgium crown prince Leopold weds princess Astrid Bernadotte of Sweden
1965 - Neth 2nd Chamber accept marriage of Princess Beatrice & Claus von Amsberg
2001 - "Four Weddings and A Funeral" actress Andie MacDowell (43) weds businessman Rhett Hartzog (42) at Central United Methodist Church in Asheville, North Carolina
2006 - "The Grudge" actor Jason Behr (32) weds actress KaDee Strickland (30) in Ojai, California
2007 - Former "E.R." actress Julianna Margulies (41) weds lawyer Keith Lieberthal in Lenox, Massachusetts
2012 - Actor Ben Hollingsworth (28) weds lingerie designer Nila Myers in Malibu

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 101

461 - St. Leo I, the Great, Italian Pope (440-61), dies in office
627 - Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury
901 - Adelaide of Paris, Queen of Western Francia
1241 - Celestine IV, [Goffredo Castiglioni], Pope (1241, 16 days), dies
1285 - Pedro III, king of Aragon, dies
1299 - Jan I, count of Holland/Zeeland (1295-99), dies at 15
1444 - Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk, king of Poland/Hungary, dies in battle at 20
1549 - Paul III, [Alessandro Farnese], Italian Pope (1534-49), dies at 81
1556 - Richard Chancellor, English explorer, dies in shipwreck off Scotland
1596 - Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)
1617 - Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer
1624 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (b. 1573)
1644 - Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b. 1579)
1665 - Samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer, dies at 36
1670 - Geory Horn, [Hornius], theologist/historian, dies at about 50
1673 - Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki, king of Poland (16..-73), dies
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 chief
1779 - Joseph Hewes, US merchant/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 49
1808 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (b. 1724)
1821 - Andreas J Romberg, German violinist/composer (Der Rabe), dies at 54
1848 - Christian VIII of Denmark, King of Denmark (b. 1786)
1865 - Henry Wards, Confederate prison supt, executed for excessive cruelty
1891 - JN Arthur Rimbaud, poet/arms merchant (Saison en Enfer), dies at 37
1909 - Ludvig Schytte, composer, dies at 61
1909 - Renee Vivien, American poet (b. 1877)
1909 - George Essex Evans, Australian poet (b. 1863)
1912 - Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
1936 - Louis Gustave Binger, French officer and explorer (b. 1856)
1937 - Nikolai Batalov, actor (Mother), dies at 37
1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and the first President of Turkey (b. 1881)
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1940) 1940 - Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British premier (1937-40), dies at 71
1948 - Julius Curtius, German foreign minister (1929- ), dies at 71
1954 - Hussein Fatemi, Iran Foreign minister, executed
1959 - Lupino Lane, actress (Deputy Drummer), dies at 67
1960 - Isadore Freed, composer, dies at 60
1963 - Otto Flake, writer, dies
1964 - Jimmie Dodd, American actor (b. 1910)
1968 - Gerald Mohr, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54
1970 - Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French), dies at 79
1971 - Walter Van Tilburg Clark, US author (Ox-Bow Incident), dies at 62
1972 - Charlie Hallows, cricketer (1000 runs-May 1928, 2 Tests for Eng), dies
1973 - Stringbean, country singer/comedian/banjoist (Hee Haw), dies at 58
1975 - Ernest M. McSorley, American ship captain (b. 1912)
1978 - Linda Scott, actress (Escape from Hell Island), dies at 28
1978 - Theo Lingen, actor (Grosse Gluck), dies at 75
1979 - Friedrich Thorberg, writer, dies at 71
1981 - Abel Gance, french movie director (J'accuse), dies at 92
1982 - Elio Petri, Italian director (Workers Class), dies at 53
1982 - Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, Soviet 1st sect, dies of a heart attack at 77
1984 - Sudie Bond, actress (Tomorrow), dies at 56 of a respiratory ailment
1984 - Xavier Herbert, Australian author (b. 1901)
1985 - Pelle Lindbergh, goalie (Phila Flyers), dies in drunk driving accident
1986 - King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (b. 1903)
1986 - Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (b. 1916)
1990 - Lisa Kirk, US Broadway-singer, dies
1990 - Ronnie Dyson, US singer (Salvation-I Don't Wanna Cry), dies at 40
1990 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914)
1991 - Alessandro Lessona, Minister of Ital Colonies (1931-38), dies
1991 - Franco Malfatti, president of Commission of Europe (1970-1972), dies
1991 - Tutte Lemkow, dancer/dir (Capt Paradise, I am a Camera), dies at 73
1991 - William Afflis, American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
1992 - Antoine C J Rottier, Dutch CEO (DSM), dies
1992 - Chuck Connors, US NBA/baseballer/actor (Boston Celtics), dies at 71
1993 - Wensley Pithey, actor (Oh What a Lovely War), dies at 79
1994 - Carmen McRae [Clark], US jazz singer/pianist, dies at about 73
1994 - Louis Nizer, lawyer, dies at 92
1995 - Boty Goodwin, artist, dies at 29
1995 - Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, writer/environmentalist, dies at 54
1995 - Margaret Annie Nan Macdonald, broadcaster, dies at 87
1996 - Beecher Moore, sailor, dies at 88
1996 - Hugo Buchthal, art historian, dies at 87
1996 - Marjorie Proops, problem page editor, dies at 85
1997 - William Alland, actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 81
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)
2004 - Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (b. 1907)
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)
2006 - Fokko du Cloux, mathematician (b. 1954)
2007 - Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920)
2007 - Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (b. 1907)
Novelist Norman Mailer (2007) 2007 - Norman Mailer, American novelist, dies at 84
2008 - Miriam Makeba, South African singer and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1932)
2009 - Gheorghe Dinica, Romanian actor (b. 1934)
2009 - Robert Enke, German football goalkeeper (b. 1977)
2009 - John Allen Muhammad, American spree killer (b. 1960)
2010 - Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (b. 1919)
2010 - Dave Niehaus, American sportscaster (b. 1935)
2010 - Nicolo Rizzuto, Sicilian-born Canadian organized crime figure (b. 1924)
2011 - Ivan Martin Jirous, Czech poet (b. 1944)