November 10

Wednesday 10, 2004:

John Ashcroft and Don Evans resign their posts as U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Secretary of Commerce respectively.

Monday 10, 1997:

Seymour Hersh's book "The Dark Side of Camelot" is published; it includes allegations of explicit photos of John F. Kennedy with various sex partners having been taken.

Friday 10, 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.

Friday 10, 1989:

After 35 years of communist rule in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by former Prime Minister Petre Mladenov who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party.

Monday 10, 1975:

United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution was repealed in December 1991).

Friday 10, 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.

Wednesday 10, 1971:

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

Tuesday 10, 1970:

1970 - Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 launched.

Monday 10, 1969:

National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.

Wednesday 10, 1954:

US President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.

Saturday 10, 1951:

Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.

Tuesday 10, 1942:

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

Sunday 10, 1940:

Walt Disney begins serving as a informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood "subversives".

Thursday 10, 1938:

Kate Smith, on her weekly radio show, sings Irving Berlin's God Bless America for the first time.

Wednesday 10, 1926:

Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan

Monday 10, 1919:

The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota (convention ended on November 12).

Friday 10, 1871:

Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

Friday 10, 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.

Friday 10, 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 .

Monday 10, 1766:

The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).

Saturday 10, 1674:

Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.

Sunday 10, 1444:

Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Ladislaus III of Poland (or Ulaszlo I of Hungary) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Ladislaus is killed.

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