Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 10
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Henry Morton Stanley
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Henry Morton Stanley
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David Livingstone
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Emperor Shōwa
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Carroll Spinney with "Oscar the Grouch"
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Sesame Street sign
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The Hope Diamond
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Petar Mladenov
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Rescue efforts after the Vrancea earthquake
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Getúlio Vargas
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Lake Superior in 2019
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Logo of Surabaya
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Flag of the Falkland Islands
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Announcement in the Wilmington Messenger on November 9, 1898
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| ; Heroes' Day in Indonesia (1945) | links to very short section |
| ; Remembrance of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkey (09:05 TRT/06:05 UTC) | refimprove section |
| 1444 – The Ottoman Empire under Sultan Template:Nowrap defeated the Polish and Hungarian armies under [[Władysław III of Poland|Template:Nowrap of Poland]] and John Hunyadi at the Battle of Varna in the final battle of the Crusade of Varna. | refimprove |
| 1766 – William Franklin, the last colonial governor of New Jersey, signed a charter establishing Queen's College, now Rutgers University. | CN tags (45) |
| 1775 – The United States Marine Corps was founded as the Continental Marines by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War. | unreferenced/refimprove sections |
| 1894 - The rebel army of the Donghak Peasant Revolution retreated from the Battle of Ugeumchi, marking the beginning of the fall of the revolution. | Revolution: lots of CN tags (34); Battle: refimprove |
| 1919 – The American Legion, a veterans' mutual-aid society, held its first national convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | article is mostly just lists of names |
| 1928 – Hirohito was crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan. | appears on December 25 |
| 1958 – Merchant Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond, the "most famous diamond in the world", to the Smithsonian Institution. | too many cn tags, needs a copyedit as well. |
| 1975 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 3379, which equated Zionism with racism. | too many quotes |
| 1989 – Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov resigned and was replaced by Petar Mladenov. | Zhivkov: refimprove section; Mladenov: lots of CN tags in one section |
| Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg |b|1547| | Birthday not cited |
| Maria Jane Williams |d|1873| | Deathday not cited |
| Paweł Jasienica |b|1909| | refimprove section |
| Canaan Banana |d|2003| | Yellow "lead too long" banner |
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- 1202 – Fourth Crusade: The Siege of Zara, the first attack on a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders, began in present-day Zadar, Croatia.
- 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.
- 1871 – Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley (pictured) located missing missionary and explorer David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania.
- 1937 – Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas led a coup against his own constitutional government, establishing the dictatorial Estado Novo regime.
- 1945 – Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby on 30 October, British forces retaliated by attacking Surabaya (present-day logo depicted).
- 1969 – The children's television series Sesame Street premiered in the United States.
- 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.
- 1975 – SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, claiming all 29 of her crew's lives.
- 2006 – Nadarajah Raviraj, a prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer, was assassinated in Colombo.
- 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.
- 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.
- Born/died: | Guðrøðr Óláfsson |d|1187| Isabel de Forz, 8th Countess of Devon |d|1293| Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg |b|1547| Afzal Khan |d|1659| Scipione Piattoli |b|1749| Andrés Manuel del Río |b|1764| St. George Tucker |d|1827| Kaʻiminaʻauao |d|1848| Henry Wirz |d|1865| Louis Lingg |d|1887| Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu |b|1887| Arthur Rimbaud |d|1891| Neil Gaiman |b|1960| Henri Bontenbal |b|1982| Leonid Brezhnev |d|1982| Ricki-Lee Coulter |b|1985| Leona Woods |d|1986| Ken Saro-Wiwa |d|1995| Mary Millar |d|1998| Armand Duplantis |b|1999| Ken Kesey |d|2001| Robert Enke |d|2009|
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- 1599 – At the culmination of a Swedish civil war, supporters of the deposed King Sigismund III Vasa were publicly executed in the Åbo Bloodbath.
- 1898 – White supremacists seized power and massacred black Americans during the Wilmington massacre,(newspaper headline depicted) the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
- 1940 – An earthquake registering 7.7 Mw struck the Vrancea region of Romania.
- 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.
- 2009 – A skirmish occurred between South Korean and North Korean naval ships off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.