November 10

Historic Events

2020

Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a ceasefire agreement, ending the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, and prompting protests in Armenia. ›

2019

President of Bolivia Evo Morales and several of his government resign after 19 days of civil protests and a recommendation from the military. ›

2009

Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea. ›

2008

Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost. ›

2006

Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo. ›

2006

The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush, who announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor. ›

2002

Veteran's Day Weekend Tornado Outbreak: A tornado outbreak stretching from Northern Ohio to the Gulf Coast, one of the largest outbreaks recorded in November. ›

1999

World Anti-Doping Agency is formed in Lausanne. ›

1997

WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time). ›

1995

In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces. ›

1989

Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov. ›

1989

Germans begin to tear down the Berlin Wall. ›

1985

A Dassault Falcon 50 and a Piper PA-28 Cherokee collide in mid-air over Fairview, New Jersey, killing six people and injuring eight. ›

1983

Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0. ›

1979

A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario. ›

1975

The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board. ›

1975

Treaty of Osimo between Yugoslavia and Italy ›

1975

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is a form of racism. ›

1972

Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro. ›

1971

In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft. ›

1971

A Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount crashes into the Indian Ocean near Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, killing all 69 people on board. ›

1970

Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia. ›

1970

Luna 17: uncrewed space mission launched by the Soviet Union. ›

1969

National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street. ›

1967

The Nauru Independence Act 1967 passed the Parliament of Australia, giving independence to the UN Trust Territory of Nauru with effect from 31 January 1968. ›

1958

The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston. ›

1954

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia. ›

1951

With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States. ›

1946

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Peruvian Andes mountains kills at least 1,400 people. ›

1945

Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan). ›

1944

The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371. ›

1942

World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa. ›

1940

The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 more. ›

1939

Finnish author F. E. Sillanpää is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. ›

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. ›

1910

The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910. ›

1898

White supremacists seized power and massacred black Americans during the Wilmington massacre, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history. ›

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?" ›

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. ›

1847

The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse. ›

1821

Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which led to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia. ›

1793

A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette. ›

1775

The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas. ›

1766

The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University). ›

1702

English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War. ›

1674

Third Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherland to England. ›

1659

Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh. ›

1599

Åbo Bloodbath: Fourteen noblemen who opposed Duke Charles are decapitated in the Old Great Square of Turku (Swedish: Åbo) for their involvement in the War against Sigismund. ›

1444

Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Władysław III of Poland (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Władysław III of Varna) are defeated by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Władysław is killed. ›

1293

Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking the throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana. ›

1202

Fourth Crusade: Despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia). ›

937

Ten Kingdoms: Li Bian usurps the throne and deposes Emperor Yang Pu. The Wu State is replaced by Li (now called "Xu Zhigao"), who becomes the first ruler of Southern Tang. ›

474

Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. ›