128191 | November 10 | Event | 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 |
128192 | November 10 | Event | 1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board. |
128193 | November 10 | Event | 1975 – 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Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution is repealed in December 1991 by Resolution 4686). |
128194 | November 10 | Event | 1979 – 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 |
128195 | November 10 | Event | 1983 – Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0. |
128196 | November 10 | Event | 1984 – The first Breeders' Cup takes place at Hollywood Park Racetrack. |
128197 | November 10 | Event | 1989 – The longtime leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov. |
128198 | November 10 | Event | 1989 – German citizens begin to bring the Berlin Wall down. |
128199 | November 10 | Event | 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. |
128200 | November 10 | Event | 1997 – WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time). |
128201 | November 10 | Event | 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. The strongest tornado, an F4, hits Van Wert, Ohio during the early to mid afternoon and d |
128202 | November 10 | Event | 2006 – Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo. |
128203 | November 10 | Event | 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 receive the Medal of Honor. |
128204 | November 10 | Event | 2007 – ¿Por qué no te callas? incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez. |
128205 | November 10 | Event | 2007 – 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. |
128206 | November 10 | Event | 2008 – Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost. |
128207 | November 10 | Event | 2009 – Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea. |
128208 | November 10 | Birth | 1278 – Philip I, Prince of Taranto (d. 1332) |
128209 | November 10 | Birth | 1341 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1408) |
128210 | November 10 | Birth | 1433 – Charles the Bold, Burgundy son of Philip the Good (d. 1477) |
128211 | November 10 | Birth | 1480 – Bridget of York (d. 1517) |
128212 | November 10 | Birth | 1483 – Martin Luther, German monk and priest, leader of the Protestant Reformation (d. 1546) |
128213 | November 10 | Birth | 1565 – Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish astronomer and theologian (d. 1646) |
128214 | November 10 | Birth | 1566 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1601) |
128215 | November 10 | Birth | 1577 – Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (d. 1660) |
128216 | November 10 | Birth | 1620 – Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtier and author (d. 1705) |
128217 | November 10 | Birth | 1668 – François Couperin, French organist and composer (d. 1733) |
128218 | November 10 | Birth | 1668 – Louis, Prince of Condé (d. 1710) |
128219 | November 10 | Birth | 1695 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771) |
128220 | November 10 | Birth | 1697 – William Hogarth, English painter, illustrator, and critic (d. 1764) |