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On this day: November 10

November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years), with 51 days left until the end of the year.

 

Events on November 10

  • 474 Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. Wikipedia
  • 1444 Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Władysław III of Poland (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Władysław III of Varna) are defeated by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Władysław is killed. Wikipedia
  • 1599 Åbo Bloodbath: Fourteen noblemen who opposed Duke Charles are decapitated in the Old Great Square of Turku (Swedish: Åbo) for their involvement in the War against Sigismund. Wikipedia
  • 1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherland to England. Wikipedia
  • 1766 The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University). Wikipedia
  • 1775 The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas. Wikipedia
  • 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 and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air. Wikipedia
  • 1940 The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 more. Wikipedia
  • 1945 Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan). Wikipedia
  • 1951 With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States. Wikipedia
  • 1954 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia. Wikipedia
  • 1967 The Nauru Independence Act 1967 passed the Parliament of Australia, giving independence to the UN Trust Territory of Nauru with effect from 31 January 1968. Wikipedia
  • 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. Wikipedia
  • 1971 A Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount crashes into the Indian Ocean near Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, killing all 69 people on board. Wikipedia
  • 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. Wikipedia
  • 1975 Treaty of Osimo between Yugoslavia and Italy Wikipedia
  • 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. Wikipedia
  • 1975 Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is a form of racism. Wikipedia
  • 1983 Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0. Wikipedia
  • 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. Wikipedia
  • 2002 Veteran's Day Weekend Tornado Outbreak: A tornado outbreak stretching from Northern Ohio to the Gulf Coast, one of the largest outbreaks recorded in November. Wikipedia
  • 2006 The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush, who announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor. Wikipedia
  • 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. Wikipedia
  • 2008 Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost. Wikipedia
  • 2020 Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a ceasefire agreement, ending the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, and prompting protests in Armenia. Wikipedia
  • 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. Wikipedia

Born on November 10

  • 745 Musa al-Kadhim the seventh Shia Imam (died 799) Wikipedia
  • 1433 Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (died 1477) Wikipedia
  • 1483 Martin Luther, German monk and priest, leader of the Protestant Reformation (died 1546) Wikipedia
  • 1697 William Hogarth, English painter, illustrator, and critic (died 1764) Wikipedia
  • 1728 Oliver Goldsmith, Irish-English author, poet, and playwright (died 1774) Wikipedia
  • 1759 Friedrich Schiller, German poet and playwright (died 1805) Wikipedia
  • 1801 Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer and author (died 1872) Wikipedia
  • 1879 Patrick Pearse, Irish lawyer, poet, teacher, and insurrectionist; executed for his role in the Easter Rising (died 1916) Wikipedia
  • 1906 Josef Kramer, German SS officer (died 1945) Wikipedia
  • 1918 Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2007) Wikipedia
  • 1919 Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian general and engineer, designed the AK-47 (died 2013) Wikipedia
  • 1919 Michael Strank, American sergeant and flag raiser at the Battle of Iwo Jima (died 1945) Wikipedia
  • 1923 Hachikō, Japanese dog famous for his loyalty to his owner (died 1935) Wikipedia
  • 1925 Richard Burton, Welsh actor and singer (died 1984) Wikipedia
  • 1928 Ennio Morricone, Italian trumpet player, composer, and conductor (died 2020) Wikipedia
  • 1942 Robert F. Engle, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Wikipedia
  • 1955 Roland Emmerich, German director, producer, and screenwriter Wikipedia
  • 1960 Neil Gaiman, English author, illustrator, and screenwriter Wikipedia
  • 1969 Jens Lehmann, German footballer and actor Wikipedia
  • 1977 Brittany Murphy, American actress and singer (died 2009) Wikipedia
  • 1989 Taron Egerton, Welsh actor Wikipedia
  • 1999 João Félix, Portuguese footballer Wikipedia

Died on November 10

  • 461 Pope Leo I Wikipedia
  • 474 Leo II, Byzantine emperor (born 467) Wikipedia
  • 1241 Pope Celestine IV Wikipedia
  • 1444 Władysław III of Poland (born 1424) Wikipedia
  • 1549 Pope Paul III (born 1468) Wikipedia
  • 1891 Arthur Rimbaud, French poet and educator (born 1854) Wikipedia
  • 1938 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Republic of Turkey, Turkish field marshal and statesman, 1st President of Turkey (born 1881) Wikipedia
  • 1982 Helen Sharsmith, American biologist and educator (b. 1905) Wikipedia
  • 1982 Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian general and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union (born 1906) Wikipedia
  • 2001 Ken Kesey, American novelist, essayist, and poet (born 1935) Wikipedia
  • 2006 Jack Palance, American boxer and actor (born 1919) Wikipedia
  • 2007 Norman Mailer, American novelist and essayist (born 1923) Wikipedia
  • 2009 Robert Enke, German footballer (born 1977) Wikipedia
  • 2015 Helmut Schmidt, German soldier, economist, and politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany (born 1918) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “November 10” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-09 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. We picked the 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths with the widest coverage across Wikipedia's language editions (counted from Wikidata) and sorted them by year; the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures.