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This day in history: 10 November

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452 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 10 November.
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2020: Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a ceasefire agreement, ending the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, and prompting protests in Armenia.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Adelin of Séez

Christian feast day: Áed mac Bricc

Christian feast day: Andrew Avellino

Christian feast day: Baudolino

Christian feast day: Elaeth

Christian feast day: Grellan

Christian feast day: Justus

Christian feast day: Lübeck martyrs

Christian feast day: Monitor

Christian feast day: November 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Pope Leo I

Christian feast day: Theoctiste

Events

2020Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a ceasefire agreement, ending the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, and prompting protests in Armenia.

2019President of Bolivia Evo Morales and several of his government resign after 19 days of civil protests and a recommendation from the military.

2009Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.

2008Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.

2006Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.

2006The 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 posthumously receive the Medal of Honor.

2002Veteran's Day Weekend Tornado Outbreak: A tornado outbreak stretching from Northern Ohio to the Gulf Coast, one of the largest outbreaks recorded in November.

1999World Anti-Doping Agency is formed in Lausanne.

1997WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).

1995In 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.

1989Germans begin to tear down the Berlin Wall.

1989Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.

1985A Dassault Falcon 50 and a Piper PA-28 Cherokee collide in mid-air over Fairview, New Jersey, killing six people and injuring eight.

1983Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.

1979A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario.

1975Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is a form of racism.

1975The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.

1975Treaty of Osimo between Yugoslavia and Italy

1972Southern 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 hi

1971A Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount crashes into the Indian Ocean near Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, killing all 69 people on board.

1971In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.

1970Luna 17: uncrewed space mission launched by the Soviet Union.

1970Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.

1969National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street.

1967The Nauru Independence Act 1967 passed the Parliament of Australia, giving independence to the UN Trust Territory of Nauru with effect from 31 January 1968.

1958The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.

1954U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia.

1951With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.

1946A magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Peruvian Andes mountains kills at least 1,400 people.

1945Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).

1944The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.

1942World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.

1940The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 more.

1939Finnish author F. E. Sillanpää is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1918The 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 th

1910The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.

1898White supremacists seized power and massacred black Americans during the Wilmington massacre, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.

1871Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

1865Major 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.

1847The 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.

Born on this day

2009Christian Convery, Canadian actor

2006Hong Eunchae, South Korean singer

2003Luca Del Bel Belluz, Canadian ice hockey player

2002Eduardo Camavinga, French footballer

2000Mackenzie Foy, American actress and model

2000Oliver Sonne, Danish-Peruvian footballer

2000Scotty Pippen Jr., American basketball player

1999Armand Duplantis, Swedish-American pole vaulter

1999Hugo Duro, Spanish footballer

1999João Félix, Portuguese footballer

1999Kiernan Shipka, American actress

1999Michael Cimino, American actor

1999Michael J. Keplinger, Austrian musician and filmmaker

1998Claudine Co, Filipino singer and influencer

1998Karen Villanueva, Mexican rhythmic gymnast

1997Daniel James, Welsh footballer

1997Federico Dimarco, Italian footballer

1997Giovanna Scoccimarro, German judoka

1997Joost Klein, Dutch musician

1997Marios Georgiou, Cypriot gymnast

1997Maurice Gomis, Italian-Senegalese footballer

1997Yuriy Vakulko, Ukrainian footballer

1996Drew Lock, American football player

1996Kim Hye-yoon, South Korean actress

1995Ralfs Grīnbergs, Latvian ice hockey player

1995Ryan Peniston, British tennis player

1994Andre De Grasse, Canadian sprinter

1994Claudio Dias, English footballer

1994Zoey Deutch, American actress

1993Daieishō Hayato, Japanese sumo wrestler

1992Dimitri Petratos, Australian footballer

1992Marko Blaževski, Macedonian swimmer

1992Mattia Perin, Italian footballer

1992Rafał Wolski, Polish footballer

1992Teddy Bridgewater, American football player

1992Wilfried Zaha, Ivorian footballer

1991Tony Snell, American basketball player

1990Kristina Vogel, German track cyclist

1990Leo, South Korean singer

1990Marcus Browne, American boxer

Died on this day

2024Tim Sullivan, American novelist (born 1948)

2022Kevin Conroy, American actor and voice actor, longtime voice of Batman (born 1955)

2021Miroslav Žbirka, Slovak singer, songwriter and guitarist (born 1952)

2020Saeb Erekat, Chief Palestinian negotiator (born 1955)

2015Allen Toussaint, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1938)

2015André Glucksmann, French philosopher and author (born 1937)

2015Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist, physicist, and engineer, founded the Amdahl Corporation (born 1922)

2015Helmut Schmidt, German soldier, economist, and politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany (born 1918)

2015Pat Eddery, Irish jockey and trainer (born 1952)

2014Al Renfrew, American ice hockey player and coach (born 1924)

2014Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, American surfer and physician (born 1921)

2014John Hans Krebs, American lawyer and politician (born 1926)

2014Josip Boljkovac, Croatian soldier and politician, 1st Croatia Minister of the Interior (born 1920)

2014Wayne Goss, Australian lawyer and politician, 34th Premier of Queensland (born 1951)

2013Giorgio Orelli, Swiss poet and translator (born 1921)

2013John Grant, Australian neurosurgeon (born 1922)

2013John Matchefts, American ice hockey player and coach (born 1931)

2013Vijaydan Detha, Indian author (born 1926)

2012John Louis Coffey, American lawyer and judge (born 1922)

2012Mitsuko Mori, Japanese actress (born 1920)

2012Piet van Zeil, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs (born 1927)

2011Ivan Martin Jirous, Czech poet (born 1944)

2011Killer Karl Kox, American professional wrestler (born 1931)

2011Peter J. Biondi, American soldier and politician (born 1942)

2010Dino De Laurentiis, Italian-American actor, producer, and production manager (born 1919)

2009John Allen Muhammad, American spree killer (born 1960)

2009Robert Enke, German footballer (born 1977)

2008Kiyosi Itô, Japanese mathematician and academic (born 1915)

2008Wannes Van de Velde, Belgian singer and poet (born 1937)

2007Augustus F. Hawkins, American engineer and politician (born 1907)

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