Tukuk-OS📅 November 10
16 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on November 10? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2020 — The British government announced that it had removed the last land mine from the Falkland Islands, laid by Argentine forces during the 1982 Falklands War.
Land mines in the Falkland IslandsFalkland IslandsFalklands War
- 2009 — A skirmish occurred between South Korean and North Korean naval ships off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.
- 2007 — At the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, King Juan Carlos I of Spain asked Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez "Why don't you shut up?" after Chávez repeatedly interrupted a speech by Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
- 2006 — Nadarajah Raviraj, a prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer, was assassinated in Colombo.
- 1995 — Writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People were executed by the Nigerian military regime led by Sani Abacha.
Ken Saro-WiwaMovement for the Survival of the Ogoni PeopleMilitary dictatorship in Nigeria
- 1975 — In Angola, the MPLA decisively defeated the FNLA in the Battle of Quifangondo, while Portugal simultaneously withdrew all its colonial and military personnel from Luanda.
MPLANational Liberation Front of AngolaBattle of Quifangondo
- 1975 — SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, claiming all 29 of her crew's lives.
- 1969 — The children's television series Sesame Street premiered in the United States.
- 1945 — Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby on 30 October, British forces retaliated by attacking Surabaya (present-day logo depicted).
Indonesian National RevolutionAubertin Walter Sothern MallabyBattle of Surabaya
- 1940 — An earthquake registering 7.7 Mw struck the Vrancea region of Romania.
- 1937 — Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas led a coup against his own constitutional government, establishing the dictatorial Estado Novo regime.
Getúlio Vargas1937 Brazilian coup d'étatEstado Novo (Brazil)
- 1898 — White supremacists seized power and massacred black Americans during the Wilmington massacre,(newspaper headline depicted) the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
- 1871 — Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley (pictured) located missing missionary and explorer David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania.
- 1865 — Henry Wirz, the Confederate superintendent of Andersonville Prison, was hanged after a controversial conviction, becoming the only American Civil War officer executed for war crimes.
- 1599 — At the culmination of a Swedish civil war, supporters of the deposed King Sigismund III Vasa were publicly executed in the Åbo Bloodbath.
- 1202 — Fourth Crusade: The Siege of Zara, the first attack on a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders, began in present-day Zadar, Croatia.
Births
- 2009 — Christian Convery, Canadian actor
- 2006 — Hong Eunchae, South Korean singer
- 2003 — Luca Del Bel Belluz, Canadian ice hockey player
- 2002 — Eduardo Camavinga, French footballer
- 2000 — Mackenzie Foy, American actress and model
- 2000 — Scotty Pippen Jr., American basketball player
- 2000 — Oliver Sonne, Danish-Peruvian footballer
- 1999 — Armand Duplantis, Swedish-American pole vaulter
- 1999 — Michael Cimino, American actor
- 1999 — Hugo Duro, Spanish footballer
- 1999 — João Félix, Portuguese footballer
- 1999 — Michael J. Keplinger, Austrian musician and filmmaker
Deaths
- 2024 — Tim Sullivan, American novelist (born 1948)
- 2022 — Kevin Conroy, American actor and voice actor, longtime voice of Batman (born 1955)
- 2021 — Miroslav Žbirka, Slovak singer, songwriter and guitarist (born 1952)
- 2020 — Saeb Erekat, Chief Palestinian negotiator (born 1955)
- 2015 — Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist, physicist, and engineer, founded the Amdahl Corporation (born 1922)
- 2015 — Pat Eddery, Irish jockey and trainer (born 1952)
- 2015 — André Glucksmann, French philosopher and author (born 1937)
- 2015 — Helmut Schmidt, German soldier, economist, and politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany (born 1918)
- 2015 — Allen Toussaint, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1938)
- 2014 — Josip Boljkovac, Croatian soldier and politician, 1st Croatia Minister of the Interior (born 1920)
- 2014 — Wayne Goss, Australian lawyer and politician, 34th Premier of Queensland (born 1951)
- 2014 — John Hans Krebs, American lawyer and politician (born 1926)
Observances & holidays
- 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: Pope Leo I
- Christian feast day: Monitor
- Christian feast day: Theoctiste
- Christian feast day: Tryphena of Rome
- Christian feast day: November 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Cry of Independence Day (Panama)
- Day of Remembrance of Atatürk (Turkey)
- Day of Russian Militsiya (Russia)
- Heroes Day (Indonesia) or Hari Pahlawan
- Martinisingen (Germany)
- United States Marine Corps birthday (United States)
- World Keratoconus Day
- World Science Day for Peace and Development
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