Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
November 10
| 1493 | Christopher Columbus discovers Antigua during his second expedition. | |
| 1556 | The Englishman Richard Chancellor is drowned off Aberdeenshire on his return from a second voyage to Russia. | |
| 1647 | All Dutch-held area of New York are returned to English control by the treaty of Westminster. | |
| 1775 | U.S. Marine Corps founded. | |
| 1782 | In the last battle of the American Revolution, George Rodgers Clark attacks Indians and Loyalists at Chillicothe, in Ohio Territory. | |
| 1871 | Henry M. Stanley finds Dr. Livingstone at Ujiji near Unyanyembe in Africa. | |
| 1879 | 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 | President Taft ends a 15,000-mile, 57-day speaking tour. | |
| 1911 | The Imperial government of China retakes Nanking. | |
| 1917 | Forty-one US suffragettes are arrested protesting outside the White House. | |
| 1938 | Fascist Italy enacts anti-Semitic legislation. | |
| 1941 | Churchill promises to join the U.S. "within the hour" in the event of war with Japan. | |
| 1942 | Admiral Jean Darlan orders French forces in North Africa to cease resistance to the Anglo-American forces. | |
| 1952 | U.S. Supreme Court upholds the decision barring segregation on interstate railways. | |
| 1961 | Andrew Hatcher is named associate press secretary to President John F. Kennedy. | |
| 1962 | Eleanor Roosevelt is buried, she had died three days earlier. | |
| 1964 | Australia begins a draft to fulfill its commitment in Vietnam. | |
| 1969 | The PBS children's program Sesame Street debuts. | |
| 1971 | 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 | Hijackers divert a jet to Detroit, demanding $10 million and ten parachutes. | |
| 1975 | The iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald breaks in half and sinks at the eastern end of Lake Superior–all 29 crew members perish. | |
| 1986 | President Ronald Reagan refuses to reveal details of the Iran arms sale. | |
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Born on November 10 |
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| 1483 | Martin Luther, theologian and reformer. | |
| 1697 | William Hogarth, English caricaturist. | |
| 1730 | Oliver Goldsmith, playwright (She Stoops to Conquer). | |
| 1759 | Friedrich von Schiller, playwright and poet. | |
| 1801 | Samuel Gridley Howe, educator of the blind. | |
| 1879 | Vachel Lindsay, poet (Rhymes to be Traded for Bread). | |
| 1882 | Frances Perkins, first woman cabinet member–Secretary of Labor. | |
| 1925 | 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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