SomeFacts | November 10

On this day - November 10

474 — Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is ...

937 — Ten Kingdoms: Li Bian usurps the throne and deposes Emperor ...

1202 — Fourth Crusade: Despite letters from Pope Innocent III ...

1293 — Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit ...

1444 — Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Władysław III of ...

1599 — Åbo Bloodbath: Fourteen noblemen who opposed Duke Charles are ...

1659 — Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal Khan, ...

1674 — Third Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of ...

1702 — English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege ...

1766 — The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, ...

1775 — The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in ...

1793 — A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at ...

1821 — Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los ...

1847 — The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off ...

1865 — Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in ...

1871 — Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, ...

1898 — White supremacists seized power and massacred black Americans ...

1910 — The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego ...

1918 — The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, ...

1939 — Finnish author F. E. Sillanpää is awarded the Nobel Prize in ...

1940 — The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an ...

1942 — World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French ...

1944 — The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler ...

1945 — Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and ...

1946 — A magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Peruvian Andes mountains ...

1951 — With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, ...

1954 — U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War ...

1958 — The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by ...

1967 — The Nauru Independence Act 1967 passed the Parliament of ...

1969 — National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public ...

1970 — Luna 17: uncrewed space mission launched by the Soviet Union.

1970 — Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, ...

1971 — A Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount crashes into the ...

1971 — In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh ...

1972 — Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is ...

1975 — Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General ...

1975 — Treaty of Osimo between Yugoslavia and Italy

1975 — The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during ...

1979 — A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive ...

1983 — Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.

1985 — A Dassault Falcon 50 and a Piper PA-28 Cherokee collide in ...

1989 — Germans begin to tear down the Berlin Wall.

1989 — Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov is removed from office ...

1995 — In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken ...

1997 — WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger ...

1999 — World Anti-Doping Agency is formed in Lausanne.

2002 — Veteran's Day Weekend Tornado Outbreak: A tornado ...

2006 — The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia ...

2006 — Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated ...

2008 — Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the ...

2009 — Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off ...

2019 — President of Bolivia Evo Morales and several of his government ...

2020 — Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a ceasefire agreement, ending the ...