Notable Historical Events on November 10th
November 10th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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 in France against Richelieu |
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 sign 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 |
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 the Sea |
1871 |
Henry Morton Stanley encounters David Livingstone at Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa, with the immortal words '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 Women'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 Corporation (for scholarly & charitable works) |
1911 |
Chinese 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 bolshevik government under Lenin suspends freedom of press (temporary) during October Revolution |
1918 |
German emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherlands |
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) |
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 |
Emperor Hirohito's official coronation as Emperor of Japan |
1931 |
4th Academy Awards - "Cimarron", Lionel Barrymore & Marie Dressler win |
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 |
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 |
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 president of Guatemala |
1950 |
Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner |
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 Stapp 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 of the Netherlands elected Miss World |
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 |
1966 |
Jack Lynch becomes Irish premier (Taoiseach) |
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 |
1969 |
"Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV |
1970 |
"2 by 2" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 343 performances |
1970 |
Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched |
1970 |
R Rodgers/M Charnins musical "Two by Two" premieres in NYC |
1971 |
Joe Torre wins NL MVP, Vida Blue wins AL MVP |
1971 |
US table tennis team arrived in China |
1974 |
2nd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets even series at 1 with 26-20 OT win |
1974 |
Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 11-0 |
1975 |
Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald & crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior |
1975 |
PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses UN in NYC |
1975 |
Royals release slugger Harmon Killebrew, ending his 22-year career |
1975 |
UN General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism |
1976 |
Utah Supreme Court approves execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore |
1977 |
Amsterdam: Red Army Faction terrorists Gert Schneider/Christof Wackernagel arrested |
1977 |
Major Indoor Soccer League officially organized (NYC) |
1978 |
Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks |
1978 |
Larry Holmes KOs Alfredo Evangelist in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
1978 |
Yanks trade Lyle, Rajsich, McCall, Heath & Ramos to Texas for Righetti, Mirabella, Beniquez, Jemison & Griffin |
1979 |
Mississauga train detrailment. In Mississauga Ontario a 106 car train derails and more than 200,000 people evacuated. |
1980 |
Dan Rather refuses to pay his cabbie, CBS pays $12.55 fare |
1980 |
Poland acknowledges Solidarity union |
1980 |
Iraq captures southern port of Khorramshahr |
1981 |
"Oh, Brother!" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 3 performances |
1981 |
Ernest Thompson's "West Side Waltz" premieres in NYC |
1982 |
IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankrupcy |
1982 |
Susan Cooper/Hume Cronyn's "Foxfire" premieres in NYC |
1982 |
Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened |
1983 |
"Amen Corner" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 83 performances |
1983 |
Federal government shut down |
1984 |
Australia all out for 76 v West Indies at cricket WACA, Holding 6-21 |
1984 |
Miami Hurricanes blows 31-0 lead in 3rd quarter lose to Md 42-40 |
1984 |
Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Chief's Crown, Eillo, Lashkari, Outstandingly, Princess Rooney, Royal Heroine, Wild Again at Hollywood |
1985 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
1986 |
Bangladeshi Constitution restored |
1987 |
Steve Bedrosian edges Rick Sutcliffe 57-55 to win NL Cy Young Award |
1988 |
China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938 |
1988 |
MLB All-Star team beats Japan 3-1 in Tokyo (Game 5 of 7) |
1988 |
NY's MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes |
1988 |
Orel Hershiser (23-8) is a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young Award |
1989 |
Bulgarian party president Todor Zjikov resigns |
1989 |
Germans begin demolishing Berlin Wall |
1989 |
Word Perfect 5.1 is shipped |
1990 |
Lebanon releases 2 French hostages (Camille Sontag & Marcel Coudari) |
1991 |
Bernie Kosar ends NFL record of 308 passes without an interception |
1991 |
Browns set club record for largest lead blown (led 23-0), Phila 32-30 |
1991 |
Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
1991 |
Martina Navratilova ties Chris Evert, 157 pro tennis tournament wins |
1991 |
Marty Glickman broadcasts his 1,000th football game |
1991 |
South Africa's 1st cricket international since 1970 - one-day v India |
1993 |
"Joseph & the Amazing" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 223 perfs |
1993 |
Slovakian government of Vladimír Mečiar forms |
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 |
"Jackie - An American Life" opens at Belasco Theater NYC |
1997 |
Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to tax fraud & time served |
1997 |
Nanny Louise Woodward murder conviction downgraded to manslaughter |
2001 |
An agreement is reached at talks in Marrakech, Morocco, on rules for implementation of the Kyoto climate change treaty |
2006 |
Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj assassinated in Colombo. |
2007 |
¿Por qué no te callas? incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez. |
2010 |
44th Country Music Association Award: Brad Paisley, Miranda Lambert & Blake Shelton wins |
2010 |
Alan Menken, famous Disney composer, receives the 2,442nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |
2012 |
20 Syrian troops are killed by suicide bombings in Daara |
2012 |
27 people are killed and dozens injured in a prison conflict in Colombo, Sri Lanka |
2012 |
Israeli counter strike on Palestinian militants in Gaza kills 5 and injure 30 |
2012 |
17 people are killed in a helicopter crash as a result of bad weather in Turkey |
2012 |
The final US presidential election results are declared after Barack Obama wins Florida to defeate Mitt Romney 332-206 in Electoral College votes |
2013 |
Spaniard Marc Márquez wins the 2013 MotoGP World Championship to become its youngest ever winner at 20 |
2016 |
Barack Obama to welcome Donald Trump to White House |
2017 |
Louis CK accused of sexual misconduct by 5 women |
2084 |
Transit of Earth as seen from Mars |
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