What Happened On November 10

10 odd things that happened on November 10

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  1202 First ever

  Fourth Crusade: The Siege of Zara, the first attack on a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders, began in present-day Zadar, Croatia.

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  1766 Oddly true

  The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).

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  1293 First ever

  Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking the throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana.

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  1202 Oddly true

  Fourth Crusade: Despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia).

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  Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

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  937 First ever

  Ten Kingdoms: Li Bian usurps the throne and deposes Emperor Yang Pu. The Wu State is replaced by Li (now called "Xu Zhigao"), who becomes the first ruler of Southern Tang.

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  2020 Oddly true

  The British government announced that it had removed the last land mine from the Falkland Islands, laid by Argentine forces during the 1982 Falklands War.

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  2002 Oddly true

  Veteran's Day Weekend Tornado Outbreak: A tornado outbreak stretching from Northern Ohio to the Gulf Coast, one of the largest outbreaks recorded in November.

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  1970 First ever

  Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.

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  1944 Oddly true

  The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.

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  1871 Oddly true

  Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley (pictured) located missing missionary and explorer David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania.

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Observed today

• Christian feast day: Adelin of Séez
• Christian feast day: Áed mac Bricc
• Christian feast day: Andrew Avellino
• Christian feast day: Baudolino
• Christian feast day: Elaeth
• Christian feast day: Grellan
• Christian feast day: Justus
• Christian feast day: Lübeck martyrs
• Christian feast day: Pope Leo I
• Christian feast day: Monitor
• Christian feast day: Theoctiste
• Christian feast day: Tryphena of Rome
• Christian feast day: November 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Cry of Independence Day (Panama)
• Day of Remembrance of Atatürk (Turkey)
• Day of Russian Militsiya (Russia)
• Heroes Day (Indonesia) or Hari Pahlawan
• Martinisingen (Germany)
• United States Marine Corps birthday (United States)
• World Keratoconus Day
• World Science Day for Peace and Development

• 2020Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a ceasefire agreement, ending the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, and prompting protests in Armenia. Wikipedia →
• 2019President of Bolivia Evo Morales and several of his government resign after 19 days of civil protests and a recommendation from the military. Wikipedia →
• 2009Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea. Wikipedia →
• 2008Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost. Wikipedia →
• 2006Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo. Wikipedia →
• 2006The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush, who announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor. Wikipedia →
• 2002Veteran's Day Weekend Tornado Outbreak: A tornado outbreak stretching from Northern Ohio to the Gulf Coast, one of the largest outbreaks recorded in November. Wikipedia →
• 1999World Anti-Doping Agency is formed in Lausanne. Wikipedia →
• 1997WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time). Wikipedia →
• 1995In 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. Wikipedia →
• 1989Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov. Wikipedia →
• 1989Germans begin to tear down the Berlin Wall. Wikipedia →
• 1985A Dassault Falcon 50 and a Piper PA-28 Cherokee collide in mid-air over Fairview, New Jersey, killing six people and injuring eight. Wikipedia →
• 1983Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0. Wikipedia →
• 1979A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario. Wikipedia →
• 1975The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board. Wikipedia →
• 1975Treaty of Osimo between Yugoslavia and Italy Wikipedia →
• 1975Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is a form of racism. Wikipedia →
• 1972Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama 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. Wikipedia →
• 1971In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft. Wikipedia →
• 1971A Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount crashes into the Indian Ocean near Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, killing all 69 people on board. Wikipedia →
• 1970Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia. Wikipedia →
• 1970Luna 17: uncrewed space mission launched by the Soviet Union. Wikipedia →
• 1969National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street. Wikipedia →
• 1967The Nauru Independence Act 1967 passed the Parliament of Australia, giving independence to the UN Trust Territory of Nauru with effect from 31 January 1968. Wikipedia →
• 1958The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston. Wikipedia →
• 1954U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia. Wikipedia →
• 1951With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States. Wikipedia →
• 1946A magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Peruvian Andes mountains kills at least 1,400 people. Wikipedia →
• 1945Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan). Wikipedia →
• 1944The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371. Wikipedia →
• 1942World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa. Wikipedia →
• 1940The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 more. Wikipedia →
• 1939Finnish author F. E. Sillanpää is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Wikipedia →
• 1918The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air. Wikipedia →
• 1910The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910. Wikipedia →
• 1898White supremacists seized power and massacred black Americans during the Wilmington massacre, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history. Wikipedia →
• 1871Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Wikipedia →
• 1865Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes. Wikipedia →
• 1847The 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 of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse. Wikipedia →
• 1821Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which led to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia. Wikipedia →
• 1793A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette. Wikipedia →
• 1775The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas. Wikipedia →
• 1766The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University). Wikipedia →
• 1702English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War. Wikipedia →
• 1674Third Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherland to England. Wikipedia →
• 1659Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh. Wikipedia →
• 1599Åbo Bloodbath: Fourteen noblemen who opposed Duke Charles are decapitated in the Old Great Square of Turku (Swedish: Åbo) for their involvement in the War against Sigismund. Wikipedia →
• 1444Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Władysław III of Poland (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Władysław III of Varna) are defeated by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Władysław is killed. Wikipedia →
• 1293Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking the throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana. Wikipedia →
• 1202Fourth Crusade: Despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia). Wikipedia →
• 937Ten Kingdoms: Li Bian usurps the throne and deposes Emperor Yang Pu. The Wu State is replaced by Li (now called "Xu Zhigao"), who becomes the first ruler of Southern Tang. Wikipedia →
• 474Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. Wikipedia →