November 10

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November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining.

Events

1674 - Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands back to England.
1766 - The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress passes a resolution creating the Continental Marines (later renamed the United States Marine Corps) to serve as landing troops for the recently created Continental Navy (the Marines were disbanded at end of war in April of 1783 but were reformed on July 11, 1798).
1871 - Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, and greets him saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1919 - The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota (convention ended on November 12).
1926 - In San Francisco, California, necrophiliac serial killer Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, a boardinghouse landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds.
1928 - Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan
1942 - World War II: In violation of a 1940 armistice, Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral Jean Francois Darlan agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
1951 - Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
1954 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial} in Arlington National Cemetery.
1969 - PBS debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.
1970 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - For the first time in five years, an entire week ended with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
1971 - In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine airplanes.
1975 - The 729-foot-long freighter (then, the largest ship on the Great Lakes) SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm 17 miles from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
1975 - United Nations Resolution 3379: With a vote of 72 to 35 (with 32 abstentions), the United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution was repealed in December 1991).
1989 - After 35 years of communist rule, Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by hitherto Prime Minister Petre Mladenov who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party.
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.
1997 - Telcoms WorldCom and MCI announce a US$37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history).
1997 - A jury in Fairfax, Virginia finds Mir Aimal Kasi guilty of the murder of two CIA employees in 1993.