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 314^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 51 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 28, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 489,648 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 ‘trihectadecatetragon’ 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 99 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 4,707 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 10 Historical Events

• 1702 –
  English colonists besiege Spanish St. Augustine in Queen Anne’s War.
• 1766 –
  The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen’s College (later renamed Rutgers University).
• 1871 –
  Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”.
• 1919 –
  The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ending on November 12.
• 1944 –
  The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
• 1970 –
  The Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 is launched.
• 1989 –
  Longtime leader of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.
• 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 –
  WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
• 2007 –
  ¿Por qué no te callas? incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela’s president Hugo Chávez.

Who were born on November 10?

• 1697 –
  William Hogarth, English artist (d. 1764)
• 1728 –
  Oliver Goldsmith, English playwright (d. 1774)
• 1844 –
  Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian (d. 1932)
• 1888 –
  Andrei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1972)
• 1919 –
  Moise Tshombe, Congoian politician (d. 1969)
• 1939 –
  Russell Means, Native American activist
• 1955 –
  Roland Emmerich, German film producer and director
• 1956 –
  Mohsen Badawi, Egyptian entrepreneur and activist
• 1958 –
  George Lowe, American voice actor
• 1983 –
  Craig Smith, American basketball player

Who died on November 10?

• 1596 –
  Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)
• 1777 –
  Cornstalk, Shawnee chief
• 1891 –
  Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, (b. 1854)
• 1973 –
  David “Stringbean” Akeman, American country music banjo player (b. 1915)
• 1975 –
  Ernest M. McSorley, American ship captain (b. 1912)
• 1990 –
  Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban baseball player (b. 1943)
• 1991 –
  William Afflis, American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
• 2006 –
  Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1962)
• 2009 –
  Tomaž Humar, Slovenian mountaineer (b. 1969)
• 2010 –
  Nicolo Rizzuto, Sicilian-born Canadian organized crime figure (b. 1924)