more events on November 10
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2009
North Korean and South Korean ships skirmish off Daecheon Island.
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2008
NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after losing communications with the lander, five months after it began its exploration on the surface of Mars.
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1997
WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a merger, the largest in US history up to that time.
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1989
German citizens begin tearing down the Berlin Wall.
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1986
President Ronald Reagan refuses to reveal details of the Iran arms sale.
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1983
Miranda Lambert, country singer (“Kerosene,” “Famous in a Small Town”)
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1977
Brittany Murphy, actress, voice actress, singer, producer; films include Clueless and Sin City; voice of Luanne Platter on long-running animated TV series King of the Hill.
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1975
The iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald breaks in half and sinks at the eastern end of Lake Superior–all 29 crew members perish.
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1972
Hijackers divert a jet to Detroit, demanding $10 million and ten parachutes.
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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.
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1969
The PBS children’s program Sesame Street debuts.
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1964
Australia begins a draft to fulfill its commitment in Vietnam.
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1963
Hugh Bonneville, actor (Downton Abbey, Notting Hill).
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1962
Eleanor Roosevelt is buried, she had died three days earlier.
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1961
Andrew Hatcher is named associate press secretary to President John F. Kennedy.
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1956
Sinbad (David Adkins), comedian, actor (Necessary Roughness, Houseguest).
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1952
U.S. Supreme Court upholds the decision barring segregation on interstate railways.
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1947
Greg Lake, singer, songwriter, musician, producer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer).
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1942
Admiral Jean Darlan orders French forces in North Africa to cease resistance to the Anglo-American forces.
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1941
Churchill promises to join the U.S. “within the hour” in the event of war with Japan.
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1938
Fascist Italy enacts anti-Semitic legislation.
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1935
Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist; the Novikov self-consistency principle made important contributions to the theory of time travel.
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1928
Ennio Morricone, Italian composer and conductor noted for his theme music in spaghetti Westerns such as The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.
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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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1917
Forty-one US suffragettes are arrested protesting outside the White House.
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1911
The Imperial government of China retakes Nanking.
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President Taft ends a 15,000-mile, 57-day speaking tour.
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1882
Frances Perkins, first woman cabinet member–Secretary of Labor.
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1879
Vachel Lindsay, poet (Rhymes to be Traded for Bread).
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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 courtmartialed.
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1871
Henry M. Stanley finds Dr. Livingstone at Ujiji near Unyanyembe in Africa.
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1801
Samuel Gridley Howe, educator of the blind.
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1782
In the last battle of the American Revolution, George Rogers Clark attacks Indians and Loyalists at Chillicothe, in Ohio Territory.
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1775
U.S. Marine Corps founded.
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1759
Friedrich von Schiller, playwright and poet.
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1730
Oliver Goldsmith, playwright (She Stoops to Conquer).
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1697
William Hogarth, English caricaturist.
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1647
All Dutch-held areas of New York are returned to English control by the treaty of Westminster.
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1556
The Englishman Richard Chancellor is drowned off Aberdeenshire on his return from a second voyage to Russia.
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1493
Christopher Columbus discovers Antigua during his second expedition.
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1483
Martin Luther, theologian and reformer.