12 History Lessons + 7 Births & 7 Deaths for November 10, 2025
Today’s History:
- 1775 – Continental Marines established by the Second Continental Congress (the birth of the U.S. Marine Corps).
- 1871 – Explorer Henry Morton Stanley meets David Livingstone in Ujiji, reportedly saying, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
- 1928 – Hirohito’s formal enthronement as Emperor of Japan.
- 1951 – First coast-to-coast direct-dial long-distance phone call placed (New Jersey to California).
- 1969 – “Sesame Street” premieres on public television in the United States.
- 1970 – Soviet Luna 17 launches, later delivering the Lunokhod 1 rover to the Moon.
- 1975 – SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks on Lake Superior; all 29 crew are lost.
- 1983 – Microsoft announces Windows, its graphical interface for MS-DOS.
- 1989 – Bulgaria’s longtime leader Todor Zhivkov is ousted from power.
- 1995 – Nigerian writer-activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni colleagues are executed, drawing global condemnation.
- 2001 – Apple’s first iPod goes on sale in the United States.
- 2020 – Ceasefire ends the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, brokered by Russia between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Today’s Birthdays:
- 1944 – Tim Rice, lyricist (“Jesus Christ Superstar,” “The Lion King”) (81).
- 1956 – Sinbad, comedian/actor (“A Different World,” stand-up) (69).
- 1960 – Neil Gaiman, author (“American Gods,” “Sandman”) (65).
- 1968 – Tracy Morgan, comedian/actor (“SNL,” “30 Rock”) (57).
- 1969 – Ellen Pompeo, actor (“Grey’s Anatomy”) (56).
- 1978 – Diplo, DJ/producer (Major Lazer; hit collaborations) (47).
- 1983 – Miranda Lambert, country singer-songwriter (42).
Today’s Deaths:
- 1549 – Pope Paul III, head of the Catholic Church (81).
- 1891 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (“A Season in Hell”) (37).
- 1938 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and first president of modern Turkey (57).
- 1982 – Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union (75).
- 1995 – Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and environmental activist (54).
- 2007 – Norman Mailer, American novelist/essayist (84).
- 2010 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian-American film producer (91).
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