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Today in History ~ November 10
Events1444 - Battle at Varna, Black Sea: Sultan Murad II beats Crusaders
1567 - Battle at St-Denis: French govt army vs Huguenots
1630 - Failed palace revolution against Richelieu government in France
1674 - Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English
1775 - Congress forms the Continental Marines (US Marine Corps) [H]
1793 - France ends forced worship of God
1801 - Tennessee outlaws dueling [H]
1834 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from Valparaiso
1836 - Louis Napoleon banished to America
1860 - Both South Carolina Senators resign their seats in the U.S. Senate
1864 - Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico
1864 - Kingston, GA burned during Sherman's March to Sea
1865 - War criminal Henry Wirz hanged
1871 - Journalist Henry Stanley presumes to meet Scottish missionary Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, Central Africa "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1878 - Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bespridannitsa," premieres in Moscow
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
1898 - Race riot in Wilmington NC (8 blacks killed)
1905 - Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia
1908 - 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room
1911 - Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corp (for scholarly & charitable works)
1911 - Imperial army recaptures Nanking (blood bath)
1917 - 41 women from 15 states were arrested outside the White House for suffragette demonstrations.
1917 - New Soviet government suspends freedom of press
1918 - Retired German Kaiser Wilhelm II flees to Netherlands
1919 - American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis)
1920 - George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House," premieres in NYC
1928 - Hirohito ascended throne as Emperor of Japan
1933 - Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic
1938 - Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)
1942 - Philip Barry's "Without Love," premieres in NYC
1942 - US-British troops occupy Oran Algeria
1945 - Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by US
1950 - Clifford Odet's "Country Girl," premieres in NYC
1950 - Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner
1950 - Spanish dictator Franco ends war in Gibraltar
1951 - Area codes were introduced in the United States, Canada and parts of the Caribbean, allowing direct-dialing of long-distance telephone calls. Prior to this, all such calls were operator-assisted.
1952 - Trygve Halvdan Lie resigns as 1st secretary-genraal of UN
1954 - Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag) dedicated in Arlington
1954 - Lt Col John Strapp travels 632 MPH in a rocket sled
1956 - Billie Holiday returned to the New York City stage at Carnegie Hall after a three-year absence. The concert was called by some a high point in jazz history.
1956 - Gene de Paul's and John Meyer's musical "Li'l Abner," premieres in NYC
1960 - Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
1968 - Portuguese socialist Mario Soares freed
1969 - "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV
1975 - Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald & crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior [H]
1975 - PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses UN in NYC
1975 - UN General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism
1976 - Utah Supreme Court OKs execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore
1980 - Dan Rather refuses to pay his cabbie, CBS pays $12.55 fare
1980 - Poland acknowledges Solidarity union
1981 - Ernest Thompson's "West Side Waltz," premieres in NYC
1982 - IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankrupcy
1982 - Susan Cooper's and Hume Cronyn's "Foxfire," premieres in NYC
1982 - Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened
1983 - Federal government shut down
1983 - Microsoft released its Windows computer operating system.
1989 - Germans begins demolishing Berlin Wall
1989 - Bulgaria's hard-line president Todor Zhivkov resigned as democratic reform continued to sweep the Eastern Bloc. Zhivkov was longest reigning active ruler in Eastern Europe and second longest in the world.
1989 - Word Perfect 5.1 is shipped
1991 - Secretary of State James Baker visited Japan, South Korea and China. His trip to Beijing marked the first high level official contact between the United States and China since the Tiananmen Square massacre.
1993 - "Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 223 performances
1994 - The only privately owned manuscript of Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci was sold at auction at Christie's in New York for $30.8 million, the highest amount ever paid for a manuscript.
1997 - A judge in Cambridge, Mass., changed the second- degree murder conviction of British nanny Louise Woodward in the death of her eight-month-old charge to involuntary manslaughter and sentenced her to prison time already served.
2001 - Taliban officials confirmed that the Northern Alliance had captured the Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif, while President George W. Bush told the United Nations General Assembly that the time had come for countries to take swift and decisive action against global terrorism.
2002 - The House voted to allow President Bush to take unilateral military action against Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq without conditions beyond Congress being informed almost immediately.
Birthdays Today
1484 - Martin Luther (religious leader: founder of Protestantism: wrote: 95 Theses On the Power of Indulgences, calling for reformation of the Roman Catholic Church)
1566 - Robert Devereux 2nd earl of Essex/cousin/lover of Elizabeth I
1668 - Francois Couperin, Paris France, composer/organist (Concerts Royaux)
1683 - George II, king of England (1727-60)
1697 - William Hogarth, England, satiric painter/engraver (Rake's Progress)
1728 - Oliver Goldsmith (playwright: She Stoops to Conquer, The Vicar of Wakefield)
1759 - Frederich von Schiller, Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy)
1793 - Jared Kirtland (physician; naturalist: found 1st Kirtland's Warbler [now, a rare bird])
1827 - Alfred Howe Terry, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1861 - Robert T A Innes, Edinburgh Scotland, astronomer (Proxima Centauri)
1879 - Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, US, poet (Gen William Booth enters Heaven)
1880 - Jacob Epstein, sculptor (Adam, Jacob & the Angel)
1887 - Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Erziehung vor Verdun)
1888 - Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder
1895 - John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer (Northrop Air)
1907 - Jane Froman (singer: I Only Have Eyes for You, I'll Walk Alone, I Believe)
1912 - Birdie (George) Tebbetts (baseball: catcher; manager: Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians)
1913 - Carmen Miranda, singer/actress (4 Jills in a Jeep, Down Argentine Way)
1916 - Billy May (composer, bandleader: many of Sinatra's Capitol hits)
1919 - George Fenneman (announcer: radio/tv: You Bet Your Life [w/Groucho Marx]; TV host: Your Funny, Funny Films, Anybody Can Play)
1919 - Moise Tshombe, pres of Katanga, then premier of the Congo (Zaire)
1925 - Richard Burton (Jenkins) (actor: Camelot, Hamlet, Anne of the Thousand Days, Becket, The Desert Rats, The Longest Day, Look Back in Anger, The Night of the Iguana, The Robe, The Sandpiper, The Taming of the Shrew, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; TV narrator: Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years, Ellis Island; one of Elizabeth Taylor's ex-husbands)
1932 - Paul Bley (pianist, composer: LP: Open to Love, Fragments, My Standard; founding member: Jazz Composers Guild)
1935 - Roy Scheider (actor: All that Jazz, Blue Thunder, Marathon Man, The French Connection, Jaws series, 2010, 52 Pickup, Sea Quest DSV)
1940 - Russell Means (activist: Native American rights)
1944 - Tim Rice (lyricist: with Andrew Lloyd Weber: Jesus Christ, Superstar, Evita, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; film scores: Gumshoe, Odessa File)
1947 - David Loggins (singer: Please Come to Boston; cousin of singer, Kenny Loggins)
1948 - Greg Lake (musician: bass, singer: group: Emerson, Lake and Palmer: From the Beginning: Lucky Man, From the Beginning; solo: I Believe in Father Christmas)
1949 - Ann Reinking (dancer, actress: Pippin, All that Jazz, Annie, Mickey and Maude)
1949 - Donna Fargo (Yvonne Vaughn) (Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter: The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. [1972], Funny Face)
1950 - Ronnie Hammond (singer: group: Atlanta Rhythm Section: So in to You, Imaginary Lover)
1951 - Jack Scalia (actor: Pointman, The Devlin Connection, Dallas, High Performance, Berrenger's, Hollywood Beat, Storybook, Shattered Image, Wolf, Tequila & Bonetti; TV host: Stuntmasters)
1953 - Rusty Chambers (football)
1955 - Jack Clark (baseball: San Francisco Giants)
1956 - Sinbad (actor, comedian: A Different World, The Sinbad Show, The Redd Foxx Show; TV host: Showtime at the Apollo)
1959 - MacKenzie Phillips (actress: One Day at a Time, American Graffiti, Eleanor & Franklin; daughter of singer, John Phillips [Mamas and Papas])
Famous deaths
0461 - Leo I the Great, Pope (440-61), dies
1821 - Andreas J Romberg, German violinist/composer (Der Rabe), dies at 54
1865 - Henry Wirz, 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
1938 - Kemal Ataturk, [Mustafa Kemal], general/president Turkey, dies at 57
1940 - Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British premier (1937-40), dies at 71
1970 - Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French), dies at 79
1981 - Abel Gance, french movie director (J'accuse), dies at 92
1982 - Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, Soviet 1st sect, dies of a heart attack at 77
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