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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.

 

November 10 in one line

Headline entries for November 10, from Wikipedia: in 1969, The children's television series Sesame Street premiered in the United States; born 1483: Martin Luther, German monk and priest, leader of the Protestant Reformation (died 1546); died 1938: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Republic of Turkey, Turkish field marshal and statesman, 1st President of Turkey (born 1881). In 2026 it is a Tuesday, in 2027 a Wednesday.

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
  • 1202 Fourth Crusade: The Siege of Zara, the first attack on a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders, began in present-day Zadar, Croatia. 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 At the culmination of a Swedish civil war, supporters of the deposed King Sigismund III Vasa were publicly executed in the Åbo Bloodbath. Wikipedia
  • 1775 The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas. Wikipedia
  • 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. Wikipedia
  • 1871 Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley located missing missionary and explorer David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania. Wikipedia
  • 1898 White supremacists seized power and massacred black Americans during the Wilmington massacre, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history. 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
  • 1937 Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas led a coup against his own constitutional government, establishing the dictatorial Estado Novo regime. Wikipedia
  • 1939 Finnish author F. E. Sillanpää is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Wikipedia
  • 1940 An earthquake registering 7.7 Mw struck the Vrancea region of Romania. Wikipedia
  • 1945 Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby on 30 October, British forces retaliated by attacking Surabaya. Wikipedia
  • 1969 The children's television series Sesame Street premiered in the United States. 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 SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, claiming all 29 of her crew's lives. Wikipedia
  • 1975 Treaty of Osimo between Yugoslavia and Italy Wikipedia
  • 1983 Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0. Wikipedia
  • 1989 Germans begin to tear down the Berlin Wall. Wikipedia
  • 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 regime led by Sani Abacha. Wikipedia
  • 2006 Nadarajah Raviraj, a prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer, was assassinated in Colombo. 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
  • 2009 A skirmish occurred between South Korean and North Korean naval ships off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea. 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
  • 2020 Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a ceasefire agreement, ending the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, and prompting protests in Armenia. Wikipedia

Born on November 10

  • 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
  • 1620 Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtier and author (died 1705) Wikipedia
  • 1668 François Couperin, French organist and composer (died 1733) 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1944 Askar Akayev, Kyrgyzstani economist and politician, 1st President of Kyrgyzstan 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
  • 1985 Aleksandar Kolarov, Serbian footballer Wikipedia
  • 1989 Taron Egerton, Welsh actor Wikipedia
  • 1999 João Félix, Portuguese footballer Wikipedia
  • 2002 Eduardo Camavinga, French 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 Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian general and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union (born 1906) Wikipedia
  • 1995 Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and activist (born 1941) 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

Sources

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 2026-10-15 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. Every anniversary that Wikipedia's editors selected for November 10 stays on the list; the remaining places, up to 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths, go to the entries whose own article — about the event itself, or else the person or thing it is about — appears in the most language editions (counted from Wikidata); an article about a person or thing, which covers far more than one day, counts half. An entry with no article of its own counts, also at half, by the least covered article it links, and one that links only places counts for nothing. Each list runs by year, and the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures, audio and video.

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