Today in history November 10 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 Annes War. 1766 The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queens 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 Panamas 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 Darlans 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 childrens 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 Peoples 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 Venezuelas president Hugo Chávez.
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