UN
Day
World
Science Day for Peace and Development
Events
of the day
1293 – Raden Wijaya is
crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit
kingdom of Java, taking throne name Kertarajasa
Jayawardhana.
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.
1659 – Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha
King kills Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the
battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh.
This is also recognised as the first defence
of Swarajya
1674 – Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the
Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes
New Netherlands to England.
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).
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.
1821 – Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro
at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting
into motion a revolt which lead to Panama's
independence from Spain and to it immediately
becoming part of Colombia
1847 – The passenger ship Stephen Whitney
is wrecked in thick fog off the southern
coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110
on board. The disaster results in the construction
of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
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.
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?".
1898 – Beginning of the Wilmington Insurrection
of 1898, the only instance of a municipal
government being overthrown in US history.
1910 – The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening
of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy,
though the official founding date is November
23, 1910.
1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in
North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret
coded message from Europe (that would be
sent to Ottawa, Ontario and Washington,
DC) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting
would cease on land, sea and in the air.
1919 – The first national convention of
the American Legion is held in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, ending on November 12.
1940 – The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes
Romania killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring
approximately 4,000 more.
1942 – World War II: Germany invades Vichy
France following French Admiral François
Darlan's agreement to an armistice with
the Allies in North Africa.
1944 – The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood
explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty
Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding
371.
1945 – Heavy fighting in Surabaya between
Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists
after World War II, today celebrated as
Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
1951 – Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone
service begins in the United States.
1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower
dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima
memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
1958 – The Hope Diamond is donated to the
Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond
merchant Harry Winston.
1969 – National Educational Television (the
predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service)
in the United States debuts the children's
television program Sesame Street.
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.
1970 – The Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1
is launched.
1971 – In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack
the city of Phnom Penh and its airport,
killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging
nine aircraft.
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.
1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund
Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake
Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
1975 – United Nations Resolution 3379: United
Nations General Assembly approves a resolution
equating Zionism with racism (the resolution
is repealed in December 1991 by Resolution
4686).
1979 – A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight
train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals
from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada just west of
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, causing a massive
explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation
in Canadian history and one of the largest
in North American history.
1984 – The first Breeders' Cup takes place
at Hollywood Park Racetrack.
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).
2006 – Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian
Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.
2006 – The National Museum of the Marine
Corps is opened and dedicated by U.S. President
George W. Bush and announces that Marine
Corporal Jason Dunham will receive the Medal
of Honor in Quantico, Virginia.
2007 – ¿Por qué no te callas? incident between
King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's
president Hugo Chávez.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Andrew Avellino
Justus
Pope Leo I
November 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Cry of Independence Day (Panama)
Day of Remembrance of Ataturk (Turkey)
Day of Russian Militsiya (Russia)
Day of Tradition or DÃa de la Tradición,
celebrated on the birthday of José Hernández
(Argentina, especially San Antonio de Areco)
Heroes' Day or Hari Pahlawan (Indonesia)
United States Marine Corps birthday ball
(United States)
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