Post by farmgal on Nov 10, 2012 8:10:07 GMT -5
November 10 is the 315th day of this leap year in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 51 days remaining until the end of the year.
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1444 Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland, b. 31 October 1424) were crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II, and Vladislaus was killed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wladyslaw_III_of_Poland
Rutgers motto in English: Sun of Righteousness, shine upon the West also
1766 In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Queen's College was chartered under the Dutch Reformed Church, to provide education "...especially in divinity, preparing [youth] for the ministry and other good offices." The present name of the school, Rutgers University, was adopted in 1924.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutgers_University
1775 US Marine Corps established by Congress. The United States Marine Corps traces its institutional roots to the Continental Marines of the American Revolutionary War, formed at the Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by a resolution of the Continental Congress on November 10, 1775, a date regarded and celebrated as the birthday of the Marine Corps. At the end of the Revolution in 1783, both the Continental Navy and Marines were disbanded, and although individual Marines were enlisted for the few American naval vessels left, the institution itself would not be resurrected until 1798.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps
1801 Kentucky outlaws dueling.
1851 The Texas Synod was organized at Houston by six pastors under the leadership of C. Braun, who had been sent to Texas by William A. Passavant.
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1871 "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Explorer Henry M. Stanley found missionary David Livingstone at Ujiji, Africa. Stanley began his search the previous March for Livingstone who had been missing for two years. Upon locating him, he simply asked, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morton_Stanley
1873 Bishop George David Cummins (1822–1876) of Kentucky withdrew from the Protestant Episcopal Church and began the formation of the Reformed Episcopal Church.
1898 The Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898, occurred in Wilmington, North Carolina following the events of Nov. 10, 1898, and is considered a turning point in North Carolina politics following Reconstruction. Originally labeled a race riot, it is now also termed a coup d'etat. This incident is the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in US history. The Wilmington Insurrection was the illegal seizure of power from an elected government by Democratic white supremacists, who used, among their many weapons, a Gatling gun mounted on a wagon. They photographed themselves in their activities. Governor Daniel Lindsay Russell and President William McKinley, who were well-informed of these events, did nothing in response.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_Insurrection_of_1898
1899 Dr. Rudolph Matas of New Orleans, Louisiana, anesthetized a patient by "spinal subarachnoid method" for surgery. His report, the first on the subject in the U.S. was "The Growing Importance and Value of Local and Regional Anesthesia in Minor and Major Surgery," which was published in the Journal of the Louisiana state Medical Society (1900). Matas is known as "the Father of Modern Vascular Surgery." Delicate surgery was his forte. In 1888 Matas reported the first known aneurysmorrhaphy worldwide. Also in 1888, Dr. Leonard Corning performed the first spinal block with cocaine, but it was over a decade later when Matas performed the first successful preplanned attempt at intraspinal cocainization.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Matas
1900 First national automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC). The first U.S. National Automobile Show opens November 10 at New York's Madison Square Garden with 31 exhibitors displaying 159 vehicles. Contestants compete in starting and braking, and exhibitors demonstrate hill-climbing ability on a specially built ramp, but horseless carriages are forbidden to park on the city's streets and even stables refuse to take them in. Poll at the National Automobile Show in NYC showed people's first choice for automobiles was electric followed closely by steam.
www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/88739/The-first-National-Auto-Show-held-at-Madison-Square-Garden
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.
www.armyandnavyacademy.org/about-ana-military-academy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_Army_and_Navy_Academy
1910 The Gideons placed their first Bible in the Superior Motel in Iron Mountain, Montana.
www.gideons.org/?HP=USA&LevelID=5&sc_lang=en
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon%27s_Bible
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.
1928 Knute Rockne delivered his ‘Win One for the Gipper’ pregame speech. From 1924-27, the Fighting Irish lost 4 of 29 games, tying 2. Rockne had his worst year in 1928, when it took a 12-6 victory over Army to salvage a 5-4-0 season. The Army game lives on in football mythology. With the team trailing 6-0 at the half, Rockne told his players that George Gipp, dying of pneumonia in 1920, had said, "Rock, someday when the going is real tough, ask the boys to go out and beat Army for me." After that revelation, the inspired Notre Dame "won one for the Gipper." Although Gipp's deathbed request has been dismissed as a fairy tale, Rockne always insisted it was true.Notre Dame upset Army, 12-6.
1939 Muggsy Spanier and his band recorded "Dipper Mouth Blues" on Bluebird Records. After a stint with Ben Pollack's orchestra (1936-1938), Spanier became seriously ill and was hospitalized for three months. After he recovered, the cornetist formed his famous eight-piece "Ragtime Band" and recorded 16 Dixieland performances for Bluebird (later dubbed The Great Sixteen) that virtually defined the music of the Dixieland revival movement. But because his group actually preceded the revival by a couple years, it soon had to break up due to lack of work.
1940 Pittsburgh & Philadelphia play a penalty free NFL game.
1942 Churchill comments on Montgomery's victory at El Alamein. The attack began on November 2 1942. By the 3rd Rommel had only 35 tanks fit for action. Despite containing the Allied advance, the pressure on his forces made a retreat necessary. However the same day Rommel received a "victory or death" message from Hitler, halting the withdrawal. But the Allied pressure was too great, and the German forces had to withdraw on the night of November 3-4. By November 6 the Axis forces were in full retreat and over 30,000 soldiers had surrendered.Following Montgomery's victory at El Alamein, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill stated, "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
1942 World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
1944 The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands
1945 College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0
1945 Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, is celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
1950 Monty Woolley starred as "The Magnificent Montague", which debuted on NBC radio. Magnificent Montague is the story of a once-famous Shakespearean actor reduced to hosting a kid's show. The hilarities of an experience actor with a refined voice entertaining kids is the basis of this funny show. The star of Magnificent Montague as Edwin Montague himself was Monty Woolley. Woolley was best known as insider east coast actor and even taught English at Yale. Almost exactly the same person offscreen as on, Woolley delighted in insulting and patronizing everyone who crossed his path -- just as much as they probably enjoyed being insulted and patronized.
1952 The first Hong Kong Lutheran Hour Rally took place.
1951 Direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service in North America began as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, N.J. called Mayor Frank Osborn in Alameda, Calif. Three digits were added to the number dialled. They were able to begin taking just 18 sec. after the dialling. Previously, coast-to-coast calls were placed by long-distance operators. Since the 1930s some calls could be dialed between cities and towns with relatively small areas. By 1965, 9 out of 10 telephones used the new service, with millions of users connecting through thousands of new generation switching centers, with a numbering plan that could be applied nationwide, and a billing system that could record and process millions of transactions automatically.
1951 "Sin" by Eddy Howard topped the charts. By 1941 Eddy had started his own band, and hit the jackpot with a number one single in 1946, "To Each His Own." "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons," "My Adobe Hacienda," "I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder," "Room Full of Roses," "Sin (It's No Sin)," and "Auf Weidersehn Sweetheart" were some of the biggest smashes he enjoyed prior to the mid-'50s, when the emergence of rock & roll displaced him from the airwaves.
1954 The Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated in Arlington, Virginia. On the morning of February 19, 1945, the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions invaded Iwo Jima after a somewhat ineffective bombardment lasting 72 hours. The 28th Regiment, 5th Division, was ordered to capture Mount Suribachi. They reached the base of the mountain on the afternoon of February 21, and by nightfall the next day had almost completely surrounded it. On the morning of February 23, Marines of Company E, 2nd Battalion, started the tortuous climb up the rough terrain to the top. At about 10:30 a.m., men all over the island were thrilled by the sight of a small American flag flying from atop Mount Suribachi. It was officially dedicated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on November 10, 1954, the 179th anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps.
1956 Billie Holiday returned to the New York City stage at Carnegie Hall after a 3 year absence. The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed the art of American pop vocals forever. More than technical ability, more than purity of voice, what made Billie Holiday one of the best vocalists of the century -- easily the equal of Ella Fitzgerald or Frank Sinatra -- was her relentlessly individualist temperament, a quality that colored every one of her endlessly nuanced performances.
1956 "Love Me Tender" by Elvis Presley topped the charts. "Love Me Tender" was the theme song to the first of 31 Elvis movies. The movie was titled The Reno Brothers before it was renamed to capitalize on the song. RCA Records received over 1 million pre-orders for this song, making it the first single to ship as a gold record before it was released. It was released as a single in September 1956.
1956 Kaye Starr’s "Rock and Roll Waltz" was voted Billboard's top record. The Kay Starr recording of "Rock and Roll Waltz," made in 1955, reached the #1 position on the Billboard chart in 1956, staying there for six weeks. It was Kay Starr's first recording for RCA Victor after leaving Capitol Records, and she thought it was a joke when the A&R staff at RCA Victor picked it for her; it was so different from what she was used to recording. Although it was a #1 hit and a million seller, and she has come to love the song with the passage of time, it was never a song people requested her to sing at any live performance in the days of its popularity.
1957 NFL record crowd (102,368), '49ers vs Rams in LA
1958 "It's Only Make Believe" by Conway Twitty topped the charts. "It's Only Make Believe" was written by Conway Twitty with his drummer Jack Nance between sets at the Flamingo Lounge Toronto. Conway Twitty was US singer Harold Lloyd Jenkins. He changed his name in 1957 upon signing with Sun Records (although nothing was released) and the next year he switched to MGM with whom he recorded this.
1958 First domestic (New York-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707. On November 10, 1958, National became the first airline to introduce domestic jet service in the United States, with a flight between Miami's international airport and Idlewild International Airport in New York City.
1958 The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
1960 The first commercial atomic energy reactor, and the third in the U.S., produced power for distribution. This was the $57 million Yankee Atomic Electric Company's plant at Rowe, Mass., on the Deerfield River. The reactor achieved self-sustaining nuclear reaction on 19 Aug 1960. The pressurized light-water reactor produced 125,000 kilowatts of electricity. The company was formed by twelve New England utility companies which signed a contract with the Westinghouse Corporation as the principal contractor. It was permanently shut down on 26 Feb 1992, due to reactor vessel embrittlement, after more than 31 years of service. Decommissioning began in 1993.
1962 "He's a Rebel" by the Crystals topped the charts. The Crystals did not sing on this. While at Liberty Records as the company's West Coast A&R head in 1962, producer Phil Spector heard Pitney's demo of this. Knowing it would be a hit, he promptly resigned and his boss, Snuff Garrett, produced a version by Vikki Carr to be released as her first single. Spector assembled his musicians to do HIS version, but the Crystals were 3000 miles away in New York City; so he recruited the Blossoms (Darlene Love, Famita James, and Gracia Nitzschke) to sing "He's a Rebel."
1963 Gordie Howe takes over NHL career goal lead at 545
1969 "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV. Sesame Street premiered on November 10, 1969. The very first scene was a clay-animated sequence showing two creates forming the words "Sesame Street", followed by the opening theme music. The first regular performer to appear on screen is Gordon (Matt Robinson) who introduces one of his students to his wife, Susan, as well as Bob and Mr. Hooper. Big Bird also appears, though the first puppet-style Muppets to appear on screen were Ernie and Bert.
1969 Twenty years after its release "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" sung by Gene Autry earns a gold record. In 1949, however, Autry scored the biggest single hit of his career -- and possibly the second- or third-biggest hit song ever recorded up to that time -- with "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," a song by Johnny Marks that Autry had recorded only reluctantly, in a single take at the end of a session. That same year, he cut "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky," a number by a former forest ranger named Stan Jones, which became both a country and pop music standard, cut by everyone from Vaughan Monroe to Johnny Cash. Twenty years after the first release of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", Gene Autry received a gold record for the single.
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.
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.
1974 The discovery of the "charmed quark" subatomic particle was announced simultaneously by the two American experimental groups responsible. One was an MIT group at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the other a SLAC-Berkeley group on the west coast at Stanford Linear accelerator centre. The new particle, of mass 3095 MeV had a lifetime about 1000 times more than that of other particles of comparable mass. This announcement set on fire the world of high energy physics and is now known in the physics community as the November revolution. Within two years, in 1976, the scientists leading those groups Samuel Ting and Burton Richter, were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics
1975 Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald & crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior. At the time, it was the worst shipping disaster on the Great Lakes in 11 years. The Fitzgerald weighted 13,632 tons and was 729 feet long. In 1958, when it was first launched, it was the largest carrier on the Great Lakes, and remained so until 1971. The Fitzgerald was labeled "The Pride of the American Flag". In 1964 it became the first ship on the Great Lakes to carry more than a million tons of ore through the Soo Locks.
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).
1977 It was announced that Pope Paul VI had ended the automatic excommunication imposed on divorced American Catholics who remarried. (The excommunication was first imposed by the Plenary Council of American Bishops in 1884.)
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.
1981 The board game "Trivial Pursuit" was registered. It was the board game Time magazine called the "the biggest phenomenon in game history." Trivial Pursuit was first conceived on December 15, 1979 by Chris Haney and Scott Abbott. At the time, Chris Haney worked as a photo editor at the Montreal Gazette, and Scott Abbott was a sports journalist for The Canadian Press. The two friends came up with the basic concept of Trivial Pursuit within a few short hours. However, it was not until 1981 that the board game was commercially released.
1983 U.S. student Fred Cohen presented to a security seminar the results of his test - the first documented virus, created as an experiment in computer security. Cohen created this first virus when studying for a PhD at the University of Southern California. Others had written about the potential for creating pernicious programs but he was the first to demonstrate a working example. In the paper, he defined a virus as "a program that can 'infect' other programs by modifying them to include a ... version of itself". Cohen added his virus to a graphics program called VD, written for a Vax mini-computer. The virus hid inside VD and used the permissions users had to look at other parts of the Vax computer to spread around the system.
1984 The first Breeders' Cup takes place at Hollywood Park Racetrack.
1988 The Secretary Herrington of the Department of Energy announced that Ellis County, Texas would be the home of a $4.4 billion atom- smashing super collider. Since the Manhattan Project, the DOE and its predecessors had helped build most of the large particle accelerators in the U.S. The superconducting super collider would become the world's largest particle accelerator, the basic research tool in high energy physics for studying the nature of matter and energy. Research at the super collider would not only include study of the fundamental laws that govern the universe but also the exploration of the origins of the universe. However, support for the projectdeclined as cost estimates soared, and Congress finally voted in Oct 1993 to kill it.
1988 NY's MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes
1989 Germans begin punching holes in the Berlin Wall. On the 9th of November, 1989, the Border separating Western from Eastern Germany was effectively opened. Shops stayed open as long as they wanted (the usual, mandatory closing time was 6:30pm in 1989), a GDR passport served as a free ticket for public transport, and in general there were more exceptions than rules in those days. Little later, an onrush of East Berliner's towards West Berlin began, and there were celebrations at the Brandenburg Gate and at the Kurfuerstendamm in West Berlin. On November 10, demolition works began with the aim of creating new border crossings
1996 Dan Marino was first NFL quarterback to throw for 50,000 yards in his career.
1997 WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
Births
1483 Martin Luther, Eisleben, Germany. He entered the Augustinian order of the Roman Church in 1505 (age 21), and three years later he was sent to teach at the University of Wittenberg. He became a priest and celebrated his first mass at age 23. Then followed a trip to Rome, and many other advancements, but nothing brought peace to his soul. However, at age 29, while working out a personal anxiety, Luther in his studies of the Bible, became aware that God justifies a man through faith in the finished work of Christ alone. In 1517 he nailed his 95 theses against the practice of indulgences to the castle church doors. The intense reaction of the Roman Church authorities led to Luther's excommunication in 1521. Thus began the Protestant Reformation. Luther married a former nun, Katrina Von Bora, in 1525, and she became his true helpmeet in the great work before him. Germans are indebted to him for translating and publishing the Bible in "low" German, the language of the common people. He also gave us many hymns, notably "A Mighty Fortress is Our God " (1529).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther
1764 Andres Manuel Del Rio (d 1849) Spanish-American mineralogist who discovered (1801) a new element, later named vanadium. While a professor of mineralogy in Mexico, Del Rio examined a specimen of brown lead from Zimapan and found a new metal, similar to chromium and uranium, which he name erythronium, after the red colour of one of its chemical compounds (Greek erythros, "red").He was dissuaded by other chemists, and eventually regarded it as impure chromium. Swedish chemist Nils Gabriel Sefström, rediscovered the element (1830) and named it vanadium, after Vanadis, the Scandinavian goddess of beauty, because of its beautiful multi-coloured compounds. Since the early 1900s, vanadium has been used as an alloying element for steels and iron.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%c3%a9s_Manuel_del_R%c3%ado
1777 Solomon Henkel, printer and physician, (d. 31 August 1847).
newmarkethistoricalsociety.org/Solomon_Henkel_bio_for_NMHS_website.pdf
1793 Jared Potter Kirtland (d 1877) American naturalist, horticulturalist, physician, malacologist, and politician most active in the U.S. state of Ohio, where he served as a probate judge, and in the Ohio House of Representatives. He was also a physician and co-founder of Western Reserve University's Medical School, as well as what would become the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. He is credited with originating 26 varieties of cherries and 6 of pears. In 1838, Kirtland published the first list of amphibians collected in Ohio. On 13 May 1851 he made the first discovery of a migrating song bird on his farm near Cleveland, Ohio, which was named Kirtland's Warbler. This yellow-breasted, bluish-gray bird's song can be heard from a quarter of a mile away. It is also one of the rarest birds in the world. The Warbler's finicky nesting requirements also make it extremely unusual. Some still nest in the jack pines of Northern Michigan, but they are on the endangered list.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Potter_Kirtland
1801 Samuel Gridley Howe 'Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe (d 1876) prominent 19th century United States physician, abolitionist, and an advocate of education for the blind. Husband of Julia Ward Howe.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Gridley_Howe
1844 Henry Eyster Jacobs (d 1932) American educator and Lutheran theologian.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Eyster_Jacobs
1852 Henry van Dyke, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, American Presbyterian clergyman and professor of English literature at Princeton University, (d. 10 Apr 1933).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_van_Dyke
1861 Philip Martin Ferdinand Rupprecht, house editor at Concordia Publishing House, was born in North Dover, Ohio (d. 5 July 1942).
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1870 Michael Ivanovich Rostovtzeff (d 1952) Russian-born archaeologist and one of the 20th century's most influential authorities on ancient Greek and Roman history, particularly their economic and social aspects. In the period roughly between the two world wars Rostovtzeff came to be widely recognized as one of the leading and most original ancient historians of his time, perhaps the most outstanding. It is difficult to attempt to sum up his work because of its range. He directed the excavation of a Hellenistic city in Syria (1928-37); also wrote on art and archaeology of southern Russia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rostovtzeff
1877 Oscar Carl Kreinheder, president of Valparaiso University, was born in Buffalo, New York (d. 26 Mar 1946).
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1879 Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (d 1931) American poet. He is considered the father of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted. His numerous correspondences with the poet Yeats detail his intentions to revive the musical qualities in poetry as had been practiced by the ancient Greeks. Because of his use of American Midwest themes he also became known as the "Prairie Troubador." (Gen William Booth Enters Heaven, Johnny Appleseed)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vachel_Lindsay
1880 Sir Jacob Epstein KBE (d 1959) American-born British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British citizen in 1911. He often produced controversial works which challenged taboos on what was appropriate subject matter for public artworks. He also made paintings and drawings, and often exhibited his work.
1893 John Phillips Marquand (d 1960) 20th-century American writer. Originally best known for his Mr. Moto spy stories, he achieved popular success and critical respect for his satirical novels, winning a Pulitzer Prize for The Late George Apley in 1938. One of his abiding themes was the confining nature of life in America's upper class and among those who aspired to join it. Marquand treated those whose lives were bound by these unwritten codes with a characteristic mix of respect and satire.
1895 John Knudsen "Jack" Northrop (d 1981) American aircraft designer, an early advocate of all-metal construction and the flying wing design. As early as 1923, Jack Northrop had been convinced that the flying wing, in which the aircraft carried all loads and controls within the wing and dispensed with fuselage and tail sections, was the next major step forward in aircraft design. He pursued various flying wing and tailless aircraft designs during WWII. In the decades following the war, Northrop's name was attached as manufacturer and designer of several other aircraft, culminating in the B-2, which vindicated Jack Northrop’s dream of a clean flying machine.
1909 Johnny Marks (d 1985) American songwriter. Although he was Jewish, he specialized in Christmas songs and wrote many standards, including "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (a hit for Gene Autry and others), "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" (first recorded by Bing Crosby), "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" (a hit for Brenda Lee), and "A Holly Jolly Christmas" (recorded by the Quinto Sisters, then Burl Ives), and Run Rudolph Run (recorded by Chuck Berry).
1912 George Robert "Birdie" Tebbetts (d 1999) American catcher, manager, scout and front office executive in Major League Baseball.
1916 William E. "Billy" May (d 2004) American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music, for The Green Hornet and Batman (with Batgirl theme, 1966), Naked City and collaborated on films, such as Pennies from Heaven (1981), and orchestrated Cocoon, and Cocoon: The Return among others.
1925 Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
1933 Ronald Ellwin Evans, Jr. (d 1990) (Captain, USN Ret.) was a NASA astronaut. He was one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon. Evans was born in St. Francis, Kansas.
1934 Norman Dalton Cash (d 1986) American first baseman in Major League Baseball who spent almost his entire career with the Detroit Tigers. An outstanding power hitter, his 377 career home runs were the fourth most by an American League left-handed hitter when he retired, behind Babe Ruth, Ted Williams and Lou Gehrig; his 373 home runs with the Tigers rank second in franchise history behind his teammate Al Kaline (399). He also led the AL in assists three times and fielding percentage twice; he ranked among the all-time leaders in assists (4th, 1317) and double plays (10th, 1347) upon his retirement, and was fifth in AL history in games at first base (1943). He was known to fans and teammates during his playing days as "Stormin' Norman."
1935 Roy Richard Scheider (d 2008) American actor. He was best known for his role as police chief Martin Brody in Jaws, as choreographer and film director Joe Gideon in All That Jazz, detective Buddy Russo in The French Connection and his role as Captain Nathan Bridger in science fiction television series SeaQuest DSV. Scheider's final performance is to be released posthumously in the 2010 thriller Iron Cross. Described by Allmovie as "one of the most unique and distinguished of all Hollywood actors", Scheider was nominated for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award over the course of his career.
1935 Bernard Babior (d 2004) American physician and research biochemist. Early in his career, while studying a vitamin B12-dependent enzyme, Babior recognized that free radicals might play an important role in biologic processes. He showed that highly reactive oxygen derivatives were one of the mechanisms used by white cells to kill invading bacteria. Babior and others showed that the very weapons that the body makes to protect itself against microbial invasion can also play an important role in a variety of common diseases, including arthritis, arteriosclerosis, and Alzheimer's disease.
1939 Russell Charles Means activist for the rights of Native American people. Means has also pursued careers in politics, acting, and music.
1941 John Lance "Jack" Geoghegan, (d 1965) infantry lieutenant killed during the Battle of Ia Drang during the Vietnam War. Silver Star recipient.
1942 Robert Fry Engle III American economist and the winner of the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, sharing the award with Clive Granger, "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)".
1943 Clarence Saxby Chambliss senior United States Senator from Georgia. He is a member of the Republican Party. In the 110th Congress, Chambliss serves as the ranking Republican member of the United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, chairing the committee during the 109th Congress (2005–2007). He now serves as the Ranking Republican Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture.
1944 Silvestre "Silver" Reyes Canutillo, Texas, American politician representing Texas's 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. He is the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the primary Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives charged with the oversight of the United States Intelligence Community, including the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and other executive branch departments and agencies. Reyes is also a Senior Member of the House Armed Services Committee, the primary Committee responsible for the funding and oversight of the Department of Defense (DOD) and the United States Armed Forces, as well as substantial portions of the Department of Energy. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
1945 Donna Fargo (born Yvonne Vaughan, in Mount Airy, North Carolina) American country music singer-songwriter, who is best-known for a series of Top 10 country hits in the 1970s. These include "The Happiest Girl In the Whole USA" and "Funny Face," which both became crossover pop hits in 1972.
1947 David Allen "Dave" Loggins Mountain City, Tennessee, singer, songwriter and musician. He is widely remembered for his 1974 composition "Please Come to Boston", which was a top-10 hit in the U.S. for him, and was subsequently covered by numerous other artists. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1995. Besides being a musician, Loggins was previously employed as a draftsman at Bristol Metals, and as an insurance salesman.
1956 David Adkins , better known by the stage name Sinbad, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He became well known in the late 1980s and 1990s from being featured on his own HBO specials, appearing on several television series, and starring in the films Houseguest, First Kid and Jingle All the Way.
1958 Stephen Robert Herek American film director, his career as film director took off in 1986 with Critters followed by Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure where he worked with Keanu Reeves in 1989. He directed Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead in 1991, followed by The Mighty Ducks in 1992, The Three Musketeers in 1993, Mr. Holland's Opus in 1995 and 101 Dalmatians in 1996.
1981 Jason Lee Dunham (d 2004) Corporal in the United States Marine Corps who served with 4th Platoon, Company K, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment (3/7), 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. While fighting with his unit in Karabilah, Iraq, an enemy soldier threw a grenade that landed next to him. Rather than allow the grenade to explode and kill or injure not only himself but several other Marines in the area he sacrificed himself and dove on top of the grenade. When it exploded Dunham was seriously injured and died eight days later.
Deaths
627 Justus, fourth Archbishop of Canterbury. A Roman by birth, he was one of the missionaries sent to England, by Pope Gregory II at the request of St. Augustine of Canterbury in 601.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Justus
1549 Pope Paul III (b. 29 Feb 1468). He came to the papal throne in an era following the sack of Rome in 1527 and rife with uncertainties in the Catholic Church following the Protestant Reformation. During his reign, and in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation, new Catholic religious orders and societies, such as the Jesuits, the Theatines, the Barnabites and the Congregation of the Oratory, attracted a popular following. He convened the Council of Trent in 1545. He was a significant patron of the arts and employed nepotism to advance the power and fortunes of his family. It is to Pope Paul III that Nicolaus Copernicus dedicated De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Paul_III
1865 Heinrich Hartmann Wirz better known as Henry Wirz (b 1823) Confederate officer tried and executed in the aftermath of the American Civil War for conspiracy and murder relating to his command of Camp Sumter, the Confederate prisoner of war camp near Andersonville, Georgia.
www.factasy.com/civil_war/southern_leaders/heinrich_hartmann_wirz.shtml
1869 John Ellis Wool (b 1784) officer in the United States Army during three consecutive U.S. wars: the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. By the time of the Mexican-American War, he was widely considered one of the most capable officers in the army and a superb organizer. He was one of the four general officers of the United States Army in 1861, and was the one who saw the most Civil War service. When the war began, Wool, at age 77, a brigadier general for 20 years, commanded the Department of the East. He was the oldest general on either side of the war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Wool
1916 Walter Stanborough Sutton (b 1877) U.S. geneticist who provided the first conclusive evidence that chromosomes carry the units of inheritance and occur in distinct pairs. While he was working as a graduate student at Columbia University, studying grasshopper cells, Sutton observed that chromosomes occurred in distinct pairs, and that during meiosis, the chromosome pairs split, and each chromosome goes to its own cell. Sutton announced this discovery in his 1902 paper On the Morphology of the Chromosome Group in Brachyotola. In 1903, Sutton discovered that chromosomes contained genes, and that their behavior during meiosis was random, concepts that later provided the basis for the Chromosomal Theory of Heredity.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sutton
1933 James Rowe (b. 1 Jan 1865), English-American writer and hymnist. Wrote Love Lifted Me, I Walk with a King, Sweeter as the Days Go By.
www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/r/o/w/rowe_j.htm
1946 Kirsopp Lake (b. 1872), British-American archeologist and biblical historian
cyclopedia.lcms.org/display.asp?t1=L&word=LAKE.KIRSOPP
1949 William Jackson Humphreys (b 1862) American atmospheric physicist who applied basic physical laws to explain the optical, electrical, acoustical, and thermal properties and phenomena of the atmosphere. His book, Physics of the Air (1920), covers most of classical physical meteorology.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jackson_Humphreys
1973 David Akeman (b 1916), better known as Stringbean, American country music banjo player and comedy musician best known for his role on the hit television show, Hee Haw. A member of the Grand Ole Opry, Akeman and his wife were murdered by burglars at their rural Tennessee home in 1973.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_%22Stringbean%22_Akeman
1975 Ernest Michael McSorley (b 1912) last captain of the ill-fated Laker-type freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald. McSorley died along with the other 28 members of his crew when the Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975.
1982 Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1906)
1992 Chuck Connors, American actor, baseball and basketball player (b. 1921)
1994 William Higinbotham (b 1910) American physicist who invented the first video game, Tennis for Two, as entertainment for the 1958 visitor day at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he worked (1947-84) then as head of the Instrumentation Division. It used a small analogue computer with ten direct-connected operational amplifiers and output a side view of the curved flight of the tennis ball on an oscilloscope only five inches in diameter. Each player had a control knob and a button. Late in WW II he became electronics group leader at Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the nuclear bomb was developed. After the war, he became active with other nuclear scientists in establishing the Federation of American Scientists to promote nuclear non-proliferation.
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Andrew Avellino
Justus
Pope Leo I
November 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Apostles Erastus of Paneas, Olympas, Herodion of Patras, Sosipater of Iconium, Quartus and Tertius of Iconium, of the Seventy Disciples
Martyr Orestes of Cappadocia (304)
Saint Nonnus, bishop of Heliopolis (471)
www.todayinsci.com/11/11_10.htm
www.christianhistorytimeline.com/index.php
www.amug.org/~jpaul/nov10.html
www.scopesys.com/cgi-bin/today2.cgi
www.lcms.org/
www.lutheranhistory.org/history/tih1110.htm
www.hymntime.com/tch/index.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_10_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)
There are 51 days remaining until the end of the year.
U.S. Debt Clock: www.usdebtclock.org/
1444 Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland, b. 31 October 1424) were crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II, and Vladislaus was killed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wladyslaw_III_of_Poland
Rutgers motto in English: Sun of Righteousness, shine upon the West also
1766 In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Queen's College was chartered under the Dutch Reformed Church, to provide education "...especially in divinity, preparing [youth] for the ministry and other good offices." The present name of the school, Rutgers University, was adopted in 1924.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutgers_University
1775 US Marine Corps established by Congress. The United States Marine Corps traces its institutional roots to the Continental Marines of the American Revolutionary War, formed at the Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by a resolution of the Continental Congress on November 10, 1775, a date regarded and celebrated as the birthday of the Marine Corps. At the end of the Revolution in 1783, both the Continental Navy and Marines were disbanded, and although individual Marines were enlisted for the few American naval vessels left, the institution itself would not be resurrected until 1798.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps
1801 Kentucky outlaws dueling.
1851 The Texas Synod was organized at Houston by six pastors under the leadership of C. Braun, who had been sent to Texas by William A. Passavant.
cyclopedia.lcms.org/display.asp?t1=T&word=TEXASSYNOD
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morton_Stanley
1873 Bishop George David Cummins (1822–1876) of Kentucky withdrew from the Protestant Episcopal Church and began the formation of the Reformed Episcopal Church.
1898 The Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898, occurred in Wilmington, North Carolina following the events of Nov. 10, 1898, and is considered a turning point in North Carolina politics following Reconstruction. Originally labeled a race riot, it is now also termed a coup d'etat. This incident is the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in US history. The Wilmington Insurrection was the illegal seizure of power from an elected government by Democratic white supremacists, who used, among their many weapons, a Gatling gun mounted on a wagon. They photographed themselves in their activities. Governor Daniel Lindsay Russell and President William McKinley, who were well-informed of these events, did nothing in response.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_Insurrection_of_1898
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Matas
www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/88739/The-first-National-Auto-Show-held-at-Madison-Square-Garden
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.
www.armyandnavyacademy.org/about-ana-military-academy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_Army_and_Navy_Academy
1910 The Gideons placed their first Bible in the Superior Motel in Iron Mountain, Montana.
www.gideons.org/?HP=USA&LevelID=5&sc_lang=en
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon%27s_Bible
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 Pittsburgh & Philadelphia play a penalty free NFL game.
1942 World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
1944 The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands
1945 College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0
1945 Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, is celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
1952 The first Hong Kong Lutheran Hour Rally took place.
1957 NFL record crowd (102,368), '49ers vs Rams in LA
1958 The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
1963 Gordie Howe takes over NHL career goal lead at 545
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.
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.
1974 The discovery of the "charmed quark" subatomic particle was announced simultaneously by the two American experimental groups responsible. One was an MIT group at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the other a SLAC-Berkeley group on the west coast at Stanford Linear accelerator centre. The new particle, of mass 3095 MeV had a lifetime about 1000 times more than that of other particles of comparable mass. This announcement set on fire the world of high energy physics and is now known in the physics community as the November revolution. Within two years, in 1976, the scientists leading those groups Samuel Ting and Burton Richter, were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics
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).
1977 It was announced that Pope Paul VI had ended the automatic excommunication imposed on divorced American Catholics who remarried. (The excommunication was first imposed by the Plenary Council of American Bishops in 1884.)
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.
1983 U.S. student Fred Cohen presented to a security seminar the results of his test - the first documented virus, created as an experiment in computer security. Cohen created this first virus when studying for a PhD at the University of Southern California. Others had written about the potential for creating pernicious programs but he was the first to demonstrate a working example. In the paper, he defined a virus as "a program that can 'infect' other programs by modifying them to include a ... version of itself". Cohen added his virus to a graphics program called VD, written for a Vax mini-computer. The virus hid inside VD and used the permissions users had to look at other parts of the Vax computer to spread around the system.
1984 The first Breeders' Cup takes place at Hollywood Park Racetrack.
1988 NY's MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes
1996 Dan Marino was first NFL quarterback to throw for 50,000 yards in his career.
1997 WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
Births
1483 Martin Luther, Eisleben, Germany. He entered the Augustinian order of the Roman Church in 1505 (age 21), and three years later he was sent to teach at the University of Wittenberg. He became a priest and celebrated his first mass at age 23. Then followed a trip to Rome, and many other advancements, but nothing brought peace to his soul. However, at age 29, while working out a personal anxiety, Luther in his studies of the Bible, became aware that God justifies a man through faith in the finished work of Christ alone. In 1517 he nailed his 95 theses against the practice of indulgences to the castle church doors. The intense reaction of the Roman Church authorities led to Luther's excommunication in 1521. Thus began the Protestant Reformation. Luther married a former nun, Katrina Von Bora, in 1525, and she became his true helpmeet in the great work before him. Germans are indebted to him for translating and publishing the Bible in "low" German, the language of the common people. He also gave us many hymns, notably "A Mighty Fortress is Our God " (1529).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%c3%a9s_Manuel_del_R%c3%ado
1777 Solomon Henkel, printer and physician, (d. 31 August 1847).
newmarkethistoricalsociety.org/Solomon_Henkel_bio_for_NMHS_website.pdf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Potter_Kirtland
1801 Samuel Gridley Howe 'Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe (d 1876) prominent 19th century United States physician, abolitionist, and an advocate of education for the blind. Husband of Julia Ward Howe.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Gridley_Howe
1844 Henry Eyster Jacobs (d 1932) American educator and Lutheran theologian.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Eyster_Jacobs
1852 Henry van Dyke, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, American Presbyterian clergyman and professor of English literature at Princeton University, (d. 10 Apr 1933).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_van_Dyke
1861 Philip Martin Ferdinand Rupprecht, house editor at Concordia Publishing House, was born in North Dover, Ohio (d. 5 July 1942).
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1870 Michael Ivanovich Rostovtzeff (d 1952) Russian-born archaeologist and one of the 20th century's most influential authorities on ancient Greek and Roman history, particularly their economic and social aspects. In the period roughly between the two world wars Rostovtzeff came to be widely recognized as one of the leading and most original ancient historians of his time, perhaps the most outstanding. It is difficult to attempt to sum up his work because of its range. He directed the excavation of a Hellenistic city in Syria (1928-37); also wrote on art and archaeology of southern Russia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rostovtzeff
1877 Oscar Carl Kreinheder, president of Valparaiso University, was born in Buffalo, New York (d. 26 Mar 1946).
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1879 Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (d 1931) American poet. He is considered the father of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted. His numerous correspondences with the poet Yeats detail his intentions to revive the musical qualities in poetry as had been practiced by the ancient Greeks. Because of his use of American Midwest themes he also became known as the "Prairie Troubador." (Gen William Booth Enters Heaven, Johnny Appleseed)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vachel_Lindsay
1880 Sir Jacob Epstein KBE (d 1959) American-born British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British citizen in 1911. He often produced controversial works which challenged taboos on what was appropriate subject matter for public artworks. He also made paintings and drawings, and often exhibited his work.
1893 John Phillips Marquand (d 1960) 20th-century American writer. Originally best known for his Mr. Moto spy stories, he achieved popular success and critical respect for his satirical novels, winning a Pulitzer Prize for The Late George Apley in 1938. One of his abiding themes was the confining nature of life in America's upper class and among those who aspired to join it. Marquand treated those whose lives were bound by these unwritten codes with a characteristic mix of respect and satire.
1909 Johnny Marks (d 1985) American songwriter. Although he was Jewish, he specialized in Christmas songs and wrote many standards, including "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (a hit for Gene Autry and others), "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" (first recorded by Bing Crosby), "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" (a hit for Brenda Lee), and "A Holly Jolly Christmas" (recorded by the Quinto Sisters, then Burl Ives), and Run Rudolph Run (recorded by Chuck Berry).
1912 George Robert "Birdie" Tebbetts (d 1999) American catcher, manager, scout and front office executive in Major League Baseball.
1916 William E. "Billy" May (d 2004) American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music, for The Green Hornet and Batman (with Batgirl theme, 1966), Naked City and collaborated on films, such as Pennies from Heaven (1981), and orchestrated Cocoon, and Cocoon: The Return among others.
1925 Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
1933 Ronald Ellwin Evans, Jr. (d 1990) (Captain, USN Ret.) was a NASA astronaut. He was one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon. Evans was born in St. Francis, Kansas.
1934 Norman Dalton Cash (d 1986) American first baseman in Major League Baseball who spent almost his entire career with the Detroit Tigers. An outstanding power hitter, his 377 career home runs were the fourth most by an American League left-handed hitter when he retired, behind Babe Ruth, Ted Williams and Lou Gehrig; his 373 home runs with the Tigers rank second in franchise history behind his teammate Al Kaline (399). He also led the AL in assists three times and fielding percentage twice; he ranked among the all-time leaders in assists (4th, 1317) and double plays (10th, 1347) upon his retirement, and was fifth in AL history in games at first base (1943). He was known to fans and teammates during his playing days as "Stormin' Norman."
1935 Roy Richard Scheider (d 2008) American actor. He was best known for his role as police chief Martin Brody in Jaws, as choreographer and film director Joe Gideon in All That Jazz, detective Buddy Russo in The French Connection and his role as Captain Nathan Bridger in science fiction television series SeaQuest DSV. Scheider's final performance is to be released posthumously in the 2010 thriller Iron Cross. Described by Allmovie as "one of the most unique and distinguished of all Hollywood actors", Scheider was nominated for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award over the course of his career.
1935 Bernard Babior (d 2004) American physician and research biochemist. Early in his career, while studying a vitamin B12-dependent enzyme, Babior recognized that free radicals might play an important role in biologic processes. He showed that highly reactive oxygen derivatives were one of the mechanisms used by white cells to kill invading bacteria. Babior and others showed that the very weapons that the body makes to protect itself against microbial invasion can also play an important role in a variety of common diseases, including arthritis, arteriosclerosis, and Alzheimer's disease.
1939 Russell Charles Means activist for the rights of Native American people. Means has also pursued careers in politics, acting, and music.
1941 John Lance "Jack" Geoghegan, (d 1965) infantry lieutenant killed during the Battle of Ia Drang during the Vietnam War. Silver Star recipient.
1942 Robert Fry Engle III American economist and the winner of the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, sharing the award with Clive Granger, "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)".
1943 Clarence Saxby Chambliss senior United States Senator from Georgia. He is a member of the Republican Party. In the 110th Congress, Chambliss serves as the ranking Republican member of the United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, chairing the committee during the 109th Congress (2005–2007). He now serves as the Ranking Republican Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture.
1944 Silvestre "Silver" Reyes Canutillo, Texas, American politician representing Texas's 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. He is the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the primary Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives charged with the oversight of the United States Intelligence Community, including the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and other executive branch departments and agencies. Reyes is also a Senior Member of the House Armed Services Committee, the primary Committee responsible for the funding and oversight of the Department of Defense (DOD) and the United States Armed Forces, as well as substantial portions of the Department of Energy. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
1945 Donna Fargo (born Yvonne Vaughan, in Mount Airy, North Carolina) American country music singer-songwriter, who is best-known for a series of Top 10 country hits in the 1970s. These include "The Happiest Girl In the Whole USA" and "Funny Face," which both became crossover pop hits in 1972.
1947 David Allen "Dave" Loggins Mountain City, Tennessee, singer, songwriter and musician. He is widely remembered for his 1974 composition "Please Come to Boston", which was a top-10 hit in the U.S. for him, and was subsequently covered by numerous other artists. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1995. Besides being a musician, Loggins was previously employed as a draftsman at Bristol Metals, and as an insurance salesman.
1956 David Adkins , better known by the stage name Sinbad, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He became well known in the late 1980s and 1990s from being featured on his own HBO specials, appearing on several television series, and starring in the films Houseguest, First Kid and Jingle All the Way.
1958 Stephen Robert Herek American film director, his career as film director took off in 1986 with Critters followed by Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure where he worked with Keanu Reeves in 1989. He directed Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead in 1991, followed by The Mighty Ducks in 1992, The Three Musketeers in 1993, Mr. Holland's Opus in 1995 and 101 Dalmatians in 1996.
1981 Jason Lee Dunham (d 2004) Corporal in the United States Marine Corps who served with 4th Platoon, Company K, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment (3/7), 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. While fighting with his unit in Karabilah, Iraq, an enemy soldier threw a grenade that landed next to him. Rather than allow the grenade to explode and kill or injure not only himself but several other Marines in the area he sacrificed himself and dove on top of the grenade. When it exploded Dunham was seriously injured and died eight days later.
Deaths
627 Justus, fourth Archbishop of Canterbury. A Roman by birth, he was one of the missionaries sent to England, by Pope Gregory II at the request of St. Augustine of Canterbury in 601.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Justus
1549 Pope Paul III (b. 29 Feb 1468). He came to the papal throne in an era following the sack of Rome in 1527 and rife with uncertainties in the Catholic Church following the Protestant Reformation. During his reign, and in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation, new Catholic religious orders and societies, such as the Jesuits, the Theatines, the Barnabites and the Congregation of the Oratory, attracted a popular following. He convened the Council of Trent in 1545. He was a significant patron of the arts and employed nepotism to advance the power and fortunes of his family. It is to Pope Paul III that Nicolaus Copernicus dedicated De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Paul_III
1865 Heinrich Hartmann Wirz better known as Henry Wirz (b 1823) Confederate officer tried and executed in the aftermath of the American Civil War for conspiracy and murder relating to his command of Camp Sumter, the Confederate prisoner of war camp near Andersonville, Georgia.
www.factasy.com/civil_war/southern_leaders/heinrich_hartmann_wirz.shtml
1869 John Ellis Wool (b 1784) officer in the United States Army during three consecutive U.S. wars: the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. By the time of the Mexican-American War, he was widely considered one of the most capable officers in the army and a superb organizer. He was one of the four general officers of the United States Army in 1861, and was the one who saw the most Civil War service. When the war began, Wool, at age 77, a brigadier general for 20 years, commanded the Department of the East. He was the oldest general on either side of the war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Wool
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sutton
1933 James Rowe (b. 1 Jan 1865), English-American writer and hymnist. Wrote Love Lifted Me, I Walk with a King, Sweeter as the Days Go By.
www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/r/o/w/rowe_j.htm
1946 Kirsopp Lake (b. 1872), British-American archeologist and biblical historian
cyclopedia.lcms.org/display.asp?t1=L&word=LAKE.KIRSOPP
1949 William Jackson Humphreys (b 1862) American atmospheric physicist who applied basic physical laws to explain the optical, electrical, acoustical, and thermal properties and phenomena of the atmosphere. His book, Physics of the Air (1920), covers most of classical physical meteorology.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jackson_Humphreys
1973 David Akeman (b 1916), better known as Stringbean, American country music banjo player and comedy musician best known for his role on the hit television show, Hee Haw. A member of the Grand Ole Opry, Akeman and his wife were murdered by burglars at their rural Tennessee home in 1973.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_%22Stringbean%22_Akeman
1975 Ernest Michael McSorley (b 1912) last captain of the ill-fated Laker-type freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald. McSorley died along with the other 28 members of his crew when the Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975.
1982 Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1906)
1992 Chuck Connors, American actor, baseball and basketball player (b. 1921)
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Andrew Avellino
Justus
Pope Leo I
November 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Apostles Erastus of Paneas, Olympas, Herodion of Patras, Sosipater of Iconium, Quartus and Tertius of Iconium, of the Seventy Disciples
Martyr Orestes of Cappadocia (304)
Saint Nonnus, bishop of Heliopolis (471)
www.todayinsci.com/11/11_10.htm
www.christianhistorytimeline.com/index.php
www.amug.org/~jpaul/nov10.html
www.scopesys.com/cgi-bin/today2.cgi
www.lcms.org/
www.lutheranhistory.org/history/tih1110.htm
www.hymntime.com/tch/index.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_10_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)