10 November
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The 10t o November is the 314t day o the year (315t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 51 days bidin.
Events
- 1444 - Battle o Varna (present-day Bulgarie): An Ottoman Empire force defeats a Pols-Hungarian force.
- 1674 - The Netherlands cedes the New Netherlands tae Ingland.
- 1847 - Passenger ship "HMS Stephen Whitney" is wreckit in thick fog aff Ireland, killin 92 fowk.
- 1871 - Henry Morton Stanley locates David Livingstone in Ujiji, present-day Tanzanie.
- 1890 - Breetish ship "HMS Serpent" o the Ryal Navy sinks in stormy seas aff Cabo Vilan, Spain, killin 172 fowk.
- 1909 - The first ootdoor ice rink opens in Vienna.
- 1918 - Wilhelm II, German Emperor flees intae exile in the Netherlands.
- 1928 - Emperor Hirohito o Japan is crouned.
- 1938 - End o Kristallnacht: The Nazis deport 30,000 Jews intae Concentration camps an 2,500 synagogues are aither damaged or completely destroyed.
- 1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder o modren Turkey, dies.
- 1940 - A yirdquauk in Romanie kills ower 1,000 fowk.
- 1944 - Ammunition ship "USS Mount Hood" splodes in Manus, Admiralty Islands, Wastren Paceefic Ocean, killin at least 432 fowk.
- 1946 - A yirdquauk in Peru kills ower 1,400 fowk.
- 1969 - The telly programme Sesame Street is first shawn.
- 1970 - The Soviet Union's Lunokhod 1 lunar probe is launched.
- 1982 - Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev dies agit 75.
- 1989 - Todor Zhivkov, Communist leader o Bulgarie, is remuived frae office.
- 1995 - Nine Nigerian human richts activists, incluidin Ken Saro-Wiwa, are executit.
- 2001 - Apple Inc. stairts sellin the IPod.
- 2009 - North an Sooth Korean ships clash near the kintras' maritime border.
- 2012 - Barack Obama wins the electoral votes o Florida, completin his Preses election veectory ower Mitt Romney.
- 2014 - A suicide bombin at a schuil in Northeastren Nigerie kills at least 48 fowk.
- 2019 - Spain haulds its seicont general election in less nor seiven month; Pedro Sanchez's Socialists remain the maist muckle pairty, but the far-richt Vox pairty doubles its nummer o seats.
- 2019 - Evo Morales demits as Preses o Bolivie durin a poleetical creesis in the kintra.
- 2020 - Peruvie Preses Martín Vizcarra is remuived frae office.
Births
- 1483 - Martin Luther, German reformer (d. 1546)
- 1697 - Louise Hippolyte, Princess o Monaco (d. 1731)
- 1697 - William Hogarth, Inglis penter (d. 1764)
- 1720 - Honoré III, Prince o Monaco (d. 1795)
- 1740 - Princess Maria Kunigunde o Saxony (d. 1826)
- 1759 - Friedrich Schiller, German author (d. 1805)
- 1858 - Infanta Adelgundes o Portugal (d. 1946)
- 1861 - Robert T. A. Innes, Scots astronomer (d. 1933)
- 1888 - Andrei Tupolev, Roushie aircraft designer (d. 1972)
- 1918 - Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist (d. 2007)
- 1919 - Mikhail Kalashnikov, Roushie wappens designer (d. 2013)
- 1923 - Hachiko, Japanese Akita dug kent for its lealty (d. 1935)
- 1924 - Russell Johnson, American actor (d. 2014)
- 1925 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
- 1928 - Ennio Morricone, Italian componer (d. 2020)
- 1932 - Roy Scheider, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1937 - Archie Macpherson, Scots fitbaw commentator
- 1944 - Sir Tim Rice, Inglis sangwriter
- 1955 - Roland Emmerich, German film director
- 1960 - Neil Gaiman, Inglis writer
- 1969 - Faustino Asprilla, Colombie fitbawer
- 1969 - Jens Lehmann, German fitbawer
- 1977 - Brittany Murphy, American actress (d. 2009)
- 1978 - Nadine Angerer, German fitbawer
- 1978 - Ruth Davidson, Scots politeecian
- 1990 - Mireia Belmonte, Spaingie soummer
Daiths
- 1241 - Pape Celestine IV
- 1549 - Pape Paul III (b. 1468)
- 1683 - Robert Morison, Scots botanist an taxonomist (b. 1620)
- 1786 - John Hope, Scots medicinar an botanist (b. 1725)
- 1891 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (b. 1854)
- 1924 - Archibald Geikie, Scots geologist an writer (b. 1835)
- 1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Preses o Turkey (b. 1881)
- 1982 - Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader (b. 1906)
- 1995 - Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian activist an writer (b. 1941)
- 2001 - Ken Kesey, American author (b. 1935)
- 2007 - Douglas Mackay Henderson, Scots botanist (b. 1927)
- 2007 - Norman Mailer, American writer (b. 1923)
- 2008 - Miriam Makeba, Sooth Africae sangster (b. 1932)
- 2009 - Robert Enke, German fitbawer (b. 1977)
- 2015 - Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor o Wast Germany (b. 1918)
Halidays
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