Tuesday, November 10, 2020

History for November 10

History for November 10 - On-This-Day.com
Oliver Goldsmith 1728 - Novelist, playwright, poet
  • 1775 - The U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress...This day is observed as the birth date of the United States Marine Corps.
  • 1871 - Henry M. Stanley, journalist and explorer, found David Livingstone. Livingstone was a missing Scottish missionary in central Africa. Stanley delivered his famous greeting: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
  • 1954 - The Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated in Arlington, VA.
  • 1975 - The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution that equated Zionism with racism. The resolution was repealed in December of 1991.
  • 1975 - The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling ship, and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake Superior.
  • 1980 - CBS News anchor Dan Rather claimed he had been kidnapped in a cab. It turned out that Rather had refused to pay the cab fare.
  • 1982 - In Washington, DC, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to visitors.

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