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Events from History on November 10

1444 : Battle at Varna, Black Sea: Sultan Murad II beats crusaders
1526 : John I Z polyai of Transsylvania chosen as king of Hungary
1544 : Antwerps painter John Matsys banished
1567 : Battle at St-Denis: French govt army vs Huguenots
1584 : Willem Louis of Nassau appointed viceroy of Friesland
1630 : Failed palace revolution against Richelieu France
1674 : Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English
1687 : Pope Innocent XI publishes decree Coelestis pastor
1697 : English parliament accept army reduction
1775 : Congress forms US Marine Corps
1785 : Netherlands & France signs treaty
1793 : France ends forced worship of God
1801 : Kentucky outlaws dueling
1808 : Osage Treaty signed
1834 : HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from Valparaiso
1836 : Louis Napoleon banished to America
1864 : Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico
1864 : Kingston, GA burned during Sherman's March to Sea
1866 : Gold coins from the Sydney Mint become legal tender in Canada
1871 : Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa
1878 : Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bespridannitsa," premieres in Moscow
1891 : 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
1891 : Granville T Woods patents electric railway
1894 : Fred Lugard signs accord with king Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki
1898 : Race riot in Wilmington NC (8 blacks killed)
1905 : Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia
1908 : 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room
1911 : Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corp (for scholarly & charitable works)
1911 : Imperial army recaptures Nanking (blood bath)
1917 : 41 suffragists are arrested in front of White House
1917 : Faur‚'s 2nd Violo Sonate, premieres
1917 : New soviet govt suspends freedom of press (temporary)
1918 : German emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherland
1918 : Independence of Poland proclaimed by J¢zef Pilsudski
1919 : 1st observance of National Book Week
1919 : American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis)
1920 : George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House," premieres in NYC
1922 : B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #988 Appella
1923 : German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany
1926 : Belgium crown prince Leopold weds princess Astrid Bernadotte of Sweden
1926 : Bradman plays his 1st State selection trial He only made 37
1926 : Guomindang-regring deallocates seat of Kanton to Wuhan (Hankou)
1926 : Vincent Massey becomes 1st Canadian minister to USA
1928 : Hirohito ascended throne as Emperor of Japan
1933 : Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic
1937 : Brazilian dictator Get£lio Vargas proclaims "Estado novo"
1938 : 8.3 earthquake shakes East of Shumagin Islands, Alaska
1938 : Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)
1942 : Philip Barry's "Without Love," premieres in NYC
1942 : US troops occupy airport of Port-Lyautey Morocco
1942 : US-British troops occupies Oran Algeria
1944 : German riots in Rotterdam/Schiedam 52,000 men sent to Germany
1944 : US 9th Army takes Margraten cemetery
1945 : "Are You with It?" opens at Century Theater NYC for 264 performances
1945 : College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0
1945 : General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania
1945 : Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by US
1946 : Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election
1950 : After 9 years, Cleve Indians fire manager Lou Boudreau
1950 : Clifford Odet's "Country Girl," premieres in NYC
1950 : Jacobo Arbenz Guzm n elected pres of Guatemala
1950 : Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner
1950 : Spanish dictator Franco ends war in Gibraltar
1951 : 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance
1952 : Trygve Halvdan Lie resigns as 1st secretary-genraal of UN
1954 : Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag) dedicated in Arlington
1954 : Lt Col John Strapp travels 632 MPH in a rocket sled
1955 : "Vamp" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 60 performances
1956 : Gene de Paul/John Meyer's musical "Li'l Abner," premieres in NYC
1957 : Cleveland Browns' Don Paul sets club record for longest fumble
1957 : return with a 89-yard run (and TD), beating Pittsburgh 24-0
1958 : Bertolt Brecht's "Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo o Ui," premieres
1958 : WUFT TV channel 5 in Gainesville, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 : Corinne Rottschaeffer elected Miss World
1960 : Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
1962 : "Nowhere to Go, But Up" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 9 perfs
1964 : "Something More!" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 15 perfs
1964 : Braves sign a 25-year lease to play in the new Atlanta stadium
1965 : Manneke Piss statue stolen in Brussels
1965 : Neth 2nd Chamber accept marriage princess Beatrice & Claus von Amsberg
1966 : Jack Lynch becomes Irish premier
1966 : Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon
1967 : KXNE TV channel 19 in Norfolk, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 : Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight
1968 : Portuguese socialist Mario Soares freed
1969 : "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV
1970 : "2 by 2" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 343 performances
1970 : Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched
1970 : R Rodgers/M Charnins musical "Two by Two," premieres in NYC
1971 : Joe Torre wins NL MVP, Vida Blue wins AL MVP
1974 : 2nd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets even series at 1 with 26-20 OT win
1974 : Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 11-0
1975 : Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald & crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior
1975 : PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses UN in NYC
1975 : Royals release slugger Harmon Killebrew, ending his 22-year career
1975 : UN General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism
1976 : Utah Supreme Court OKs execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore
1977 : Amsterdam: RAF-terrorists Gert Schneider/Christof Wackernagel arrested
1977 : Major Indoor Soccer League officially organized (NYC)
1978 : Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
1978 : Larry Holmes KOs Alfredo Evangelist in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1978 : Righetti, Mirabella, Beniquez, Jemison & Griffin
1978 : Yanks trade Lyle, Rajsich, McCall, Heath & Ramos to Texas for
1980 : Dan Rather refuses to pay his cabbie, CBS pays $12.55 fare
1980 : Poland acknowledges Solidarity union
1981 : "Oh, Brother!" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 3 performances
1981 : Ernest Thompson's "West Side Waltz," premieres in NYC
1982 : IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankrupcy
1982 : Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3613
1982 : Susan Cooper/Hume Cronyns "Foxfire," premieres in NYC
1982 : Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened
1983 : "Amen Corner" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 83 performances
1983 : Federal government shut down
1984 : Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Chief's Crown, Eillo, Lashkari,
1984 : Outstandingly, Princess Rooney, Royal Heroine, Wild Again at Hollywood
1985 : L G Karachkina discovers asteroid #4741 Leskov
1986 : Bangladesh Constitution restored
1987 : Steve Bedrosian edges Rick Sutcliffe 57-55 to win NL Cy Young Award
1988 : China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938
1988 : NY's MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes
1988 : Orel Hershiser (23-8) is a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young Award
1988 : T Hioki & N Kawasato discover asteroid #5512
1988 : T Kojima discovers asteroid #4866 & #5433 Kairen
1989 : Bulgarian party president Todor Zjikov, resigns
1989 : Germans begins demolishing Berlin Wall
1989 : Word Perfect 5.1 is shipped
1990 : A Mrkos discovers asteroid #8022
1990 : Lebanon releases 2 french hostages (Camille Sontag & Marcel Coudari)
1990 : T Hioki & S Hayakawa discover asteroid #6094
1990 : T Seki discovers asteroid #7287
1990 : T Urata discovers asteroid #5591 Koyo & #6721
1991 : A Natori & T Urata discover asteroid #5565 Ukyounodaibu
1993 : "Joseph & the Amazing" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 223 perfs
1993 : Slowakije govt of Meciar forms
1997 : "Jackie - An American Life," opens at Belasco Theater NYC
1997 : Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to tax fraud
1997 : Nanny Louise Woodward, murder sentenced downgrade to manslaughter
2084 : Transit of Earth as seen from Mars

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