Today In History - November 10th

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A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.



1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Antigua during his second expedition.

1556 The Englishman Richard Chancellor is drowned off Aberdeenshire on his return from a second voyage to Russia.

1647 All Dutch-held areas of New York are returned to English control by the treaty of Westminster.

1775 U.S. Marine Corps founded.

1782 In the last battle of the American Revolution, George Rogers Clark attacks Indians and Loyalists at Chillicothe, in Ohio Territory.

1871 Henry M. Stanley finds Dr. Livingstone at Ujiji near Unyanyembe in Africa.

1879 Little Bighorn participant Major Marcus Reno is caught window-peeping at the daughter of his commanding officer—an offense for which he will be courtmartialed.

1911 President Taft ends a 15,000-mile, 57-day speaking tour.

1911 The Imperial government of China retakes Nanking.

1917 Forty-one US suffragettes are arrested protesting outside the White House.

1938 Fascist Italy enacts anti-Semitic legislation.

1941 Churchill promises to join the U.S. "within the hour" in the event of war with Japan.

Source: Today In History - November 10th - eReporter

 

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November 10: Remembrance of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (09:05 EET/07:05 UTC, Turkey)

• 1202 – The first major action of the Fourth Crusade and the first attack against a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders, the Siege of Zara, began in Zadar, Croatia.
• 1871 – Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley located missing missionary and explorer David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania.
• 1940 – A magnitude 7.7 ML earthquake struck the Vrancea region of Romania, the country's strongest earthquake in the 20th century.
• 1958 – Merchant Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond (pictured), the "most famous diamond in the world", to the Smithsonian Institution.
• 2006 – Prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer Nadarajah Raviraj was assassinated in Colombo.