128161 | November 10 | Event | 1293 – Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana. |
128162 | November 10 | Event | 1444 – Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed. |
128163 | November 10 | Event | 1520 – Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden. |
128164 | November 10 | Event | 1580 – After a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 Papal soldiers and civilians at Dún an Óir, Ireland. |
128165 | November 10 | Event | 1619 – René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy. |
128166 | November 10 | Event | 1659 – Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh. This is also recognised as the first defence of Swarajya |
128167 | November 10 | Event | 1674 – Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherland to England. |
128168 | November 10 | Event | 1702 – English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War. |
128169 | November 10 | Event | 1766 – The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University). |
128170 | November 10 | Event | 1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas. |
128171 | November 10 | Event | 1793 – A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette. |
128172 | November 10 | Event | 1821 – Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which lead to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia |
128173 | November 10 | Event | 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. |
128174 | November 10 | Event | 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. |
128175 | November 10 | Event | 1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?". |
128176 | November 10 | Event | 1898 – Beginning of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in US history. |
128177 | November 10 | Event | 1910 – The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910. |
128178 | November 10 | Event | 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. |
128179 | November 10 | Event | 1919 – The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, ending on November 12. |
128180 | November 10 | Event | 1940 – The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 more. |
128181 | November 10 | Event | 1942 – World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa. |
128182 | November 10 | Event | 1944 – The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371. |
128183 | November 10 | Event | 1945 – Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan). |
128184 | November 10 | Event | 1951 – With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States. |
128185 | November 10 | Event | 1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery. |
128186 | November 10 | Event | 1958 – The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston. |
128187 | November 10 | Event | 1969 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street. |
128188 | November 10 | Event | 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. |
128189 | November 10 | Event | 1970 – The Soviet lunar probe Lunokhod 1 is launched. |
128190 | November 10 | Event | 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. |