Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 10
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This is a list of selected November 10 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| ; Heroes' Day in Indonesia (1945) | links to very short section |
| ; Remembrance of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkey (09:05 TRT/06:05 UTC) | refimprove section |
| 1444 – The Ottoman Empire under Sultan Murad II defeated the Polish and Hungarian armies under Władysław III of Poland and John Hunyadi at the Battle of Varna in the final battle of the Crusade of Varna. | refimprove |
| 1766 – William Franklin, the last colonial governor of New Jersey, signed a charter establishing Queen's College, now Rutgers University. | CN tags (45) |
| 1775 – The United States Marine Corps was founded as the Continental Marines by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War. | unreferenced/refimprove sections |
| 1894 - The rebel army of the Donghak Peasant Revolution retreated from the Battle of Ugeumchi, marking the beginning of the fall of the revolution. | Revolution: lots of CN tags (34); Battle: refimprove |
| 1898 – White supremacists seized power in Wilmington, North Carolina, in the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history. | page numbers needed |
| 1919 – The American Legion, a veterans' mutual-aid society, held its first national convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | article is mostly just lists of names |
| 1928 – Hirohito was crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan. | appears on December 25 |
| 1958 – Merchant Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond, the "most famous diamond in the world", to the Smithsonian Institution. | too many cn tags, needs a copyedit as well. |
| 1975 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 3379, which equated Zionism with racism. | too many quotes |
| 1989 – Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov resigned and was replaced by Petar Mladenov. | Zhivkov: refimprove section; Mladenov: lots of CN tags in one section |
| Paweł Jasienica |b|1909 | refimprove section |
| Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg |b|1547| | Birthday not cited |
Eligible
- 1202 – Fourth Crusade: The Siege of Zara (present-day Zadar, Croatia), the first attack on a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders, began.
- 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.
- 1871 – Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley (pictured) located missing missionary and explorer David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania.
- 1937 – Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas led a coup against his own constitutional government, establishing the dictatorial Estado Novo regime.
- 1940 – An earthquake registering 7.7 Mw struck the Vrancea region of Romania.
- 1945 – Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby on 30 October, British forces retaliated by attacking Surabaya.
- 1975 – SS Edmund Fitzgerald (pictured) sank in Lake Superior with the loss of 29 lives.
- 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.
- 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 government.
- 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.
- 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.
- Born/died: | Guðrøðr Óláfsson |d|1187| Isabel de Forz, 8th Countess of Devon |d|1293| Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg |b|1547| St. George Tucker |d|1827| Kaʻiminaʻauao |d|1848| Maria Jane Williams |d|1873| Louis Lingg |d|1887| Arthur Rimbaud |d|1891| Neil Gaiman |b|1960| Ricki-Lee Coulter |b|1985| Leona Woods |d|1986| Mary Millar |d|1998|Ken Kesey |d|2001| Canaan Banana |d|2003|
- 1599 – At the culmination of a Swedish civil war, supporters of the deposed King Sigismund III Vasa were publicly executed in the Åbo Bloodbath.
- 1969 – The children's television series Sesame Street (puppeteer pictured) premiered in the United States.
- 1972 – Three men hijacked Southern Airways Flight 49 and threatened to crash it into Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the U.S. state of Tennessee.
- 2006 – Nadarajah Raviraj, a prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer, was assassinated in Colombo.
- 2009 – A skirmish occurred between South Korean and North Korean naval ships off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.
- Afzal Khan (d. 1659)
- Scipione Piattoli (b. 1749)
- Andrés Manuel del Río (b. 1764)
- Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu (b. 1887)