TIME TRAVELING, November 10: 1801 The practice of dueling is outlawed by the state of Tennessee. 1865 Henry Wirz, commander of the Andersonville Confederate prison camp in Georgia, is hanged for the murder of soldiers incarcerated there during the Civil War. 1871 Henry M. Stanley, journalist and explorer, finds David Livingstone, a missing Scottish missionary, in central Africa. Stanley delivers his famous greeting: Dr. Livingstone, I presume? 1885 Gottlieb Daimler’s son Paul becomes the first motorcyclist when he takes his father’s invention for a six-mile spin. 1917 Forty-one suffragists are arrested in front of the White House during a protest calling for women’s right to vote. 1928 Michinomiya Hirohito is enthroned as the 124th Emperor of Japan and goes on to become the longest reigning monarch in the country’s history. 1951 Coast-to-coast direct-dial telephone service begins. 1954 The Iwo Jima Memorial is dedicated in Arlington, Va. 1969 Sesame Street makes its broadcast debut on PBS. It goes on to become the most widely viewed children’s program in the world. 1970 The Great Wall of China opens for tourism. 1975 The “SS Edmund Fitzgerald,” a 728-foot ore-hauling freighter, and its crew of 29 vanish during a storm in Lake Superior. It is the worst wreck in Lake Superior’s history. The vessel is eventually found 17 miles from Whitefish Bay, broken in two pieces. 1982 Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev dies of a heart attack at age 75. He is succeeded by Yuri V. Andropov. 1982 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., is opened to visitors. 1990 Chandra Shekhar is sworn in as Indias new prime minister. 1991 Robert Maxwell, British media proprietor and Member of Parliament, is buried in Israel, five days after his body is recovered off the Canary Islands after he had apparently fallen off his yacht. 1995 Playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa and several other anti-government activists are hanged in Nigeria. 1995 Searchers rescue 549 hikers in Katmandu, Nepal, after a massive avalanche strikes the Himalayan foothills. The disaster leaves 24 tourists and 32 Nepalese dead. 1996 Dan Marino of the Miami Dolphins becomes the first quarterback in NFL history to pass for more than 50,000 yards. 1998 The Virtual Wall website (thevirtualwall.org) is unveiled, allowing visitors to visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial through the Internet. 2004 Yusuf Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens) is awarded the Man for Peace prize at the opening of a meeting of Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Rome.
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