| 1493 |
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Christopher Columbus discovers Antigua during his second expedition. |
| 1556 |
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The Englishman Richard Chancellor is drowned off Aberdeenshire on his return from a second voyage to Russia. |
| 1647 |
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All Dutch-held area of New York are returned to English control by the treaty of Westminster. |
| 1775 |
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U.S. Marine Corps founded. |
| 1782 |
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In the last battle of the American Revolution, George Rodgers Clark attacks Indians and Loyalists at Chillicothe, in Ohio Territory. |
| 1871 |
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Henry M. Stanley finds Dr. Livingstone at Ujiji near Unyanyembe in Africa. |
| 1879 |
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Little Bighorn participant Major Marcus Reno is caught window-peeping at the daughter of his commanding officer–an offense for which he will be court-martialed. |
| 1911 |
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President Taft ends a 15,000-mile, 57-day speaking tour. |
| 1911 |
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The Imperial government of China retakes Nanking. |
| 1917 |
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Forty-one US suffragettes are arrested protesting outside the White House. |
| 1938 |
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Fascist Italy enacts anti-Semitic legislation. |
| 1941 |
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Churchill promises to join the U.S. "within the hour" in the event of war with Japan. |
| 1942 |
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Admiral Jean Darlan orders French forces in North Africa to cease resistance to the Anglo-American forces. |
| 1952 |
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U.S. Supreme Court upholds the decision barring segregation on interstate railways. |
| 1961 |
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Andrew Hatcher is named associate press secretary to President John F. Kennedy. |
| 1962 |
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Eleanor Roosevelt is buried, she had died three days earlier. |
| 1964 |
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Australia begins a draft to fulfill its commitment in Vietnam. |
| 1969 |
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The PBS children’s program Sesame Street debuts. |
| 1971 |
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Two women are tarred and feathered in Belfast for dating British soldiers, while in Londonderry, Northern Ireland a Catholic girl is also tarred and feathered for her intention of marrying a British soldier. |
| 1972 |
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Hijackers divert a jet to Detroit, demanding $10 million and ten parachutes. |
| 1975 |
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The iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald breaks in half and sinks at the eastern end of Lake Superior–all 29 crew members perish. |
| 1986 |
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President Ronald Reagan refuses to reveal details of the Iran arms sale. |
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Born on November 10 |
| 1483 |
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Martin Luther, theologian and reformer. |
| 1697 |
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William Hogarth, English caricaturist. |
| 1730 |
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Oliver Goldsmith, playwright (She Stoops to Conquer). |
| 1759 |
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Friedrich von Schiller, playwright and poet. |
| 1801 |
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Samuel Gridley Howe, educator of the blind. |
| 1879 |
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Vachel Lindsay, poet (Rhymes to be Traded for Bread). |
| 1882 |
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Frances Perkins, first woman cabinet member–Secretary of Labor. |
| 1925 |
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Richard Burton, Welsh actor famous for his roles in The Spy who Came in From the Cold and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf |
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