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10 November, 2006
Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj assassinated in Colombo.
10 November, 1997
WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
10 November, 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.
10 November, 1975
The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
10 November, 1975
United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution was repealed in December 1991 with Resolution 4686).
10 November, 1972
Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham 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 are jailed by Fidel Castro.
10 November, 1971
In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine airplanes.
10 November, 1970
Vietnam War: Vietnamization - For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
10 November, 1970
Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 launched.
10 November, 1969
National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the childrens television program Sesame Street.
10 November, 1958
The Hope Diamond was donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
10 November, 1954
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
10 November, 1951
Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
10 November, 1945
Heavy battle in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, celebrated as Heroes Day (Hari Pahlawan).
10 November, 1944
Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands
10 November, 1942
World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
10 November, 1940
Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.
10 November, 1938
Kate Smith, on her weekly radio show, sings Irving Berlins God Bless America for the first time.
10 November, 1938
The death of the founder of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
10 November, 1928
Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan, Emperor Showa.
10 November, 1928
Playing against Army at Yankee Stadium, Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne gives what is considered the greatest locker room speeches of all time by saying "Win one for the Gipper." The Fighting Irish would win the game 12-6.
10 November, 1924
Dion OBanion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrios gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.
10 November, 1919
The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota (convention ended on November 12).
10 November, 1910
The date of Thomas A. Davis openning of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
10 November, 1871
Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
10 November, 1865
Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
10 November, 1775
The United States Marine Corps was founded.
10 November, 1766
The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queens College (later renamed Rutgers University).
10 November, 1674
Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
10 November, 1619
René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
10 November, 1520
Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden.
10 November, 1444
Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed.

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