Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 10
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, featured list or picture of the day.
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| Heroes' Day in Indonesia (1945); | refimprove |
| ; Remembrance of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkey (09:05 TRT/06:05 UTC) | refimprove/unreferenced sections |
| 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 Royal Governor of New Jersey, signed the charter establishing Queen's College, now known as Rutgers University. | refimprove section |
| 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. | refimprove section |
| 1871 – Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley located missing missionary and explorer David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania. | Stanley: refimprove section; Livingstone: lots of CN tags |
| 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; Battle: refimprove |
| 1919 – The American Legion, a veterans' mutual-aid society, held its first national convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | neutrality issues, refimprove section |
| 1928 – Hirohito was crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan. | appears on December 25 |
| 1989 – Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov resigned and was replaced by Petar Mladenov. | Zhivkov: unreferenced section; Mladenov: lots of CN tags |
| 1995 – Playwright 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. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1865 – Henry Wirz, the superintendent of the Confederacy's Andersonville Prison, was hanged after a controversial conviction, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
- 1940 – A magnitude 7.7 ML earthquake struck the Vrancea region of Romania, the country's strongest earthquake in the 20th century.
- 1945 – Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of the British officer Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby a few weeks prior, British forces began their retaliation by attacking Surabaya.
- 1969 – The first episode of the children's television series Sesame Street premiered on public broadcasting television stations in the United States, to adulatory reviews, some controversy, and high ratings.
- 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.
- 1975 – The SS Edmund Fitzgerald, the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, sank in Lake Superior with the loss of 29 lives.
- 2007 – At the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, King Juan Carlos I of Spain asked President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez "Why don't you shut up?" after Chávez repeatedly interrupted a speech by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
- 2009 – Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmished off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.
- Born/died: Afzal Khan (d. 1659) · Paweł Jasienica (b. 1909) · Leona Woods (d. 1986)
November 10: Noor Hossain Day in Bangladesh (1987)
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- 1202 – The Fourth Crusade began the Siege of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia), the first time Catholic crusaders attacked a Catholic city.
- 1898 – White supremacists seized power in Wilmington, North Carolina, in the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
- 1958 – Merchant Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond (pictured), the "most famous diamond in the world", to the Smithsonian Institution.
- 1975 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 3379, which equated Zionism with racism.
- 2006 – Prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer Nadarajah Raviraj was assassinated in Colombo.
Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg (b. 1547) · Maria Jane Williams (d. 1873) · Canaan Banana (d. 2003)