Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
128191November 10Event1972 – 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
128192November 10Event1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
128193November 10Event1975 – United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution is repealed in December 1991 by Resolution 4686).
128194November 10Event1979 – A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian hi
128195November 10Event1983 – Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.
128196November 10Event1984 – The first Breeders' Cup takes place at Hollywood Park Racetrack.
128197November 10Event1989 – The longtime leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.
128198November 10Event1989 – German citizens begin to bring the Berlin Wall down.
128199November 10Event1995 – 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.
128200November 10Event1997 – WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
128201November 10Event2002 – 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. The strongest tornado, an F4, hits Van Wert, Ohio during the early to mid afternoon and d
128202November 10Event2006 – Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.
128203November 10Event2006 – 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 receive the Medal of Honor.
128204November 10Event2007 – ¿Por qué no te callas? incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez.
128205November 10Event2007 – Ten to forty thousand people march toward the royal palace of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur to hand over a memorandum to the King demanding electoral reform.
128206November 10Event2008 – Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.
128207November 10Event2009 – Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.
128208November 10Birth1278 – Philip I, Prince of Taranto (d. 1332)
128209November 10Birth1341 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1408)
128210November 10Birth1433 – Charles the Bold, Burgundy son of Philip the Good (d. 1477)
128211November 10Birth1480 – Bridget of York (d. 1517)
128212November 10Birth1483 – Martin Luther, German monk and priest, leader of the Protestant Reformation (d. 1546)
128213November 10Birth1565 – Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish astronomer and theologian (d. 1646)
128214November 10Birth1566 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1601)
128215November 10Birth1577 – Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (d. 1660)
128216November 10Birth1620 – Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtier and author (d. 1705)
128217November 10Birth1668 – François Couperin, French organist and composer (d. 1733)
128218November 10Birth1668 – Louis, Prince of Condé (d. 1710)
128219November 10Birth1695 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)
128220November 10Birth1697 – William Hogarth, English painter, illustrator, and critic (d. 1764)

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