What are the important events that happened on November 10? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
November 10: Facts & Myths About This Day
November 10 is the 315th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 51 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 28, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 480,888 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectadecapentagon’ day.
Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 80 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,342 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 10 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1520 –Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden.
- 1619 –René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
- 1775 –The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
- 1793 –A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Chaumette.
- 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.
- 1919 –The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ending on November 12.
- 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.
- 1972 –Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama 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.
- 1989 –Longtime leader of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.
Who were born on November 10?
- 1483 –Martin Luther, German Protestant reformer (d. 1546)
- 1874 –Idabelle Smith Firestone, American composer and songwriter (d. 1954)
- 1908 –Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
- 1909 –Johnny Marks, American songwriter (d. 1985)
- 1916 –Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter
- 1934 –Lucien Bianchi, Belgian racing driver (d. 1969)
- 1948 –Aaron Brown, American broadcast journalist
- 1959 –Mike McCarthy, American football coach
- 1977 –Josh Barnett, American Mixed Martial Artist
- 1979 –Chris Joannou, Australian musician, (Silverchair)
Who died on November 10?
- 1772 –Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
- 1956 –Gordon MacQuarrie, American author and journalist (b. 1900)
- 1986 –Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (b. 1916)
- 1990 –Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914)
- 1994 –Carmen McRae, American singer (b. 1920)
- 1995 –Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and activist (b. 1941)
- 2001 –Ken Kesey, American author (b. 1935)
- 2006 –Gerald Levert, American singer (b. 1966)
- 2006 –Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1962)
- 2008 –Miriam Makeba, South African singer and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1932)
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