What Happened on November 10?
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EVENTS ON NOVEMBER 10
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Year:
1939
Finnish author F. E. Sillanpää is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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North Sydney, Nova Scotia
Year:
1918
The 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.
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Henry Morton Stanley
Year:
1871
Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
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Henry Wirz
Year:
1865
Major 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.
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Nazi Germany
Year:
1942
World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
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USS Mount Hood (AE-11)
Year:
1944
The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
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Hope Diamond
Year:
1958
The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
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Armenia
Year:
2020
Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a ceasefire agreement, ending the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, and prompting protests in Armenia.
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North American Numbering Plan
Year:
1951
With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
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Battle of Surabaya
Year:
1945
Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
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BIRTHS ON NOVEMBER 10
Roy Scheider
Year of birth:
1932
Roy Scheider, American actor (died 2008)
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Paul Bley
Year of birth:
1932
Paul Bley, Canadian-American pianist and composer (died 2016)
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Ronald Evans (astronaut)
Year of birth:
1933
Ronald Evans, American captain, engineer, and astronaut (died 1990)
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Arthur K. Snyder
Year of birth:
1932
Arthur K. Snyder, American lawyer and politician (died 2012)
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Gene Conley
Year of birth:
1930
Gene Conley, American baseball and basketball player (died 2017)
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Ninón Sevilla
Year of birth:
1929
Ninón Sevilla, Cuban-Mexican actress and dancer (died 2015)
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Alan and Marilyn Bergman
Year of birth:
1929
Marilyn Bergman, American composer and songwriter (died 2022)
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Clio Maria Bittoni
Year of birth:
1934
Clio Maria Bittoni, Italian lawyer (died 2024)
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A. Thurairajah
Year of birth:
1934
A. Thurairajah, Sri Lankan engineer and academic (died 1994)
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Allan Moffat
Year of birth:
1939
Allan Moffat, Canadian-Australian race car driver (died 2025)
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DEATHS ON NOVEMBER 10
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Year of death:
1971
Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American author and academic (born 1909)
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SS Edmund Fitzgerald
Year of death:
1975
Ernest M. McSorley, Canadian-American captain (born 1912)
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Leonid Brezhnev
Year of death:
1982
Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian general and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union (born 1906)
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Xavier Herbert
Year of death:
1984
Xavier Herbert, Australian author (born 1901)
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Klára Dán von Neumann
Year of death:
1963
Klára Dán von Neumann, Hungarian-American computer scientist (born 1911)
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Carrie Derick
Year of death:
1941
Carrie Derick, Canadian botanist and geneticist (born 1862)
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George Essex Evans
Year of death:
1909
George Essex Evans, Australian poet and educator (born 1863)
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Anita Berber
Year of death:
1928
Anita Berber, German dancer (born 1899)
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Louis-Gustave Binger
Year of death:
1936
Louis Gustave Binger, French general and explorer (born 1856)
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Year of death:
1938
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Republic of Turkey, Turkish field marshal and statesman, 1st President of Turkey (born 1881)
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HOLIDAYS ON NOVEMBER 10
Lübeck martyrs
Christian feast day: Lübeck martyrs
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Pope Leo I
Christian feast day: Pope Leo I
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United States Marine Corps Birthday
United States Marine Corps birthday (United States)
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Militsiya (Russia)
Day of Russian Militsiya (Russia)
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Day of Remembrance of Atatürk (Turkey)
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Saint Grellan
Christian feast day: Grellan
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Áed mac Bricc
Christian feast day: Áed mac Bricc
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Andrew Avellino
Christian feast day: Andrew Avellino
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Saint Baudolino
Christian feast day: Baudolino
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UNESCO
World Science Day for Peace and Development
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