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David Livingstone
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Henry Morton Stanley
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Emperor Hirohito
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The Hope Diamond
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| Heroes' Day in Indonesia (1945); | refimprove; Heroes Day (Indonesia) is a stub | 1444 – The Ottoman Empire under Sultan Murad II defeated the Polish and Hungarian armies under Władysław III of Poland and John Hunyadi at the Battle of Varna near Varna, Bulgaria, in the final battle of the Crusade of Varna. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1766 – William Franklin, the last Royal Governor of New Jersey, signed the charter establishing Queen's College, now known as Rutgers University. | refimprove section | ||
| 1865 – Henry Wirz, the superintendent of the Confederacy's Andersonville Prison, was hanged after a controversial conviction, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes. | refimprovie, needs copyediting | ||
| 1871 – Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley located missing missionary and explorer David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania. | Livingstone has refimprove section | ||
| 1919 – The American Legion, a veterans' mutual-aid society, held its first national convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | too many external links | ||
| 1928 – Hirohito was crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan. | Need to verify date | ||
| 1975 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 3379, which equated Zionism with racism. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} | ||
| 1995 – Playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People were executed by the Nigerian military government. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1898 – White supremacists seized power in Wilmington, North Carolina, in the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
- 1969 – The first episode of the children's television series Sesame Street premiered on public broadcasting television stations in the United States, to adulatory reviews, some controversy, and high ratings.
- 2007 – At the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, King Juan Carlos I of Spain asked President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez "¿Por qué no te callas?" after Chávez repeatedly interrupted a speech by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
November 10: Remembrance of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (09:05 EET/07:05 UTC, Turkey)
- 1775 – The United States Marine Corps was founded as the Continental Marines by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War.
- 1945 – Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of the British officer Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby a few weeks prior, British forces began their retaliation by attacking Surabaya, Indonesia.
- 1958 – Merchant Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond, the "most famous diamond in the world", to the Smithsonian Institution.
- 1975 – The SS Edmund Fitzgerald (pictured), the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, sank in Lake Superior with the loss of 29 lives.
- 2006 – Prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer Nadarajah Raviraj was assassinated in Colombo.