November 10

Birthdays:

1972 ~ Shawn Green, American baseball player best known for refusing to play baseball during Yom Kippur.

1968 ~ Tracy Morgan, American comedian.

1953 ~ Les Miles, American football player and former coach at LSU.

1952 ~ Gerry DiNardo, American football player and former coach at LSU.

1944 ~ Tim Rice, English songwriter.

1942 ~ Robert F. Engle, American economist and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

1939 ~ Russell Means (d. Oct. 22, 2012), Native American rabble-rouser who fought for American Indians.  He died of esophageal cancer 18 days before his 73^rd birthday.

1932 ~ Roy Scheider (d. Feb. 10, 2008), American actor, best known for his role in Jaws.  He died of multiple myeloma at age 75.

1931 ~ Lilly Pulitzer (née Lillian Lee McKim, d. Apr. 7, 2013), American fashion designer.  She died at age 81.

1925 ~ Richard Burton (né Richard Walter Jenkins, Jr., d. Aug. 5, 1984), Welsh actor and twice the husband of Elizabeth Taylor.  He died at age 58 of a brain hemorrhage.

1919 ~ Mikhail Kalashnikov (d. Dec. 23, 2013), Russian general and weapons designer.  He designed the AK-47.  He died at age 94.

1918 ~ Ernest Otto Fischer (d. July 23, 2007), German chemist and recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.  He died at age 88.

1910 ~ Willem Jacob van Stockum (d. June 10, 1944), Dutch mathematician.  He was killed during a combat mission in World War II.  He was 33 years old.

1897 ~ Charlotte Winters (d. Mar. 27, 2007), American veteran of World War I.  She joined the Navy in 1917.  She died at age 109.

1895 ~ John K. Northrop (d. Feb. 18, 1981), American airplane manufacturer and founder of the Northrop Corporation.  He died at age 85.

1893 ~ John P. Marquand (d. July 16, 1960), American novelist, best known for his novel, The Late George Apley.  He died at age 66.

1889 ~ Claude Rains (né William Claude Rains, d. May 30, 1967), English actor.  He is best known for his role in Casablanca.  He died in Laconia, New Hampshire at age 77.

1879 ~ Vachel Lindsay (né Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, d. Dec. 5, 1931), American poet.  He committed suicide 25 days after his 52^nd birthday.

1810 ~ George Jennings (d. Apr. 17, 1882), English engineer and plumber.  He invented the flush toilet.  He died at age 72.

1759 ~ Friedrich Schiller (né Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, d. May 9, 1805), German poet and historian.  He died of tuberculosis at age 45.

1728 ~ Oliver Goldsmith (d. Apr. 4, 1774), Anglo-Irish novelist and playwright.  He is best known for his play She Stoops to Conquor.  He is believed to have been age 45 at the time of his death.

1697 ~ William Hogarth (d. Oct. 26, 1764), British painter.  He died about 2 weeks before his 67^th birthday.

1483 ~ Martin Luther (d. Feb. 18, 1546), German monk and leader of the Protestant Reformation.  He died at age 62.

Events that Changed the World:

2017 ~ Veteran’s Day observed.

2017 ~ Hurricane Irma, which had been a category 5 hurricane throughout the Caribbean, stormed through Florida.

1989 ~ German citizens began to tear down the Berlin Wall.

1982 ~ The Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., opened to the public.

1975 ~ The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior.  All 29 crew members aboard perished.  The wreck was memorialized in a song by Gordon Lightfoot.

1969 ~ Sesame Street made its television debut.  It was originally broadcast on the National Educational Television, the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service.  In January 2016, however, the show was moved to HBO.

1958 ~ Diamond merchant, Harry Winston (1896 ~ 1978), donated the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institute.

1954 ~ The Iwo Jima memorial was dedicated, commemorating the Marines killed during World War II.

1951 ~ Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service began in the United States.

1942 ~ Germany invaded Vichy France during World War II.

1940 ~ The Vrancea earthquake struck Romania killing over 1,000 people.

1919 ~ The first national convention of the American Legion was held in Minneapolis.

1871 ~ Henry Morton Stanley (1841 ~ 1904) found Dr. David Livingston (1813 ~ 1873) in Africa.  Stanley is said to have greeted him with the words, “Dr. Livingston, I presume?”

1865 ~ Major Henry Wirz (1823 ~ 1865), a confederate soldier and superintendent of the Prisoner of War Camp for Union soldiers in Andersonville, Georgia was hanged.  He was tried and executed for conspiracy and murder relating to his command of the camp.

1775 ~ The United States Marine Corp was founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas (1744 ~ 1790).

1766 ~ William Franklin, the last colonial governor of New Jersey, singed the charter for Queen’s College.  This school is now known as Rutgers University.

1520 ~ Danish King Christian II executed dozens of people during the Stockholm Bloodbath after invading Sweden.  The bloodbath had begun a few days earlier.

Good-Byes:

2015 ~ Allen Toussaint (b. Jan. 14, 1938), American jazz musician.  He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.  He died of a heart attack shortly after giving a concert in Madrid, Spain.  He was 77 years old.

2015 ~ Klaus Fredirch Roth (b. Oct. 29, 1925), German mathematician.  He was raised in the United Kingdom after his family moved there in 1933.  He died 11 days after his 90^th birthday.

2014 ~ Dorian Paskowitz (b. Mar. 3, 1921), American physician gave up the practice of medicine to become a surfing icon.  He died at age 93.

2010 ~ Dino De Laurentiis (né Agostine De Laurentiis, b. Aug. 8, 1919), Italian-born film producer who made classics and flops.  Some of his films included The Silence of the Lambs, War and Peace and Barbarella.  He died at age 91.

2008 ~ Kiyoshi Itō (b. Sept. 7, 1915), Japanese mathematician.  He died at age 93.

2007 ~ Norman Mailer (b. Jan. 31, 1923), American author.  He died at age 84.

2006 ~ Fokko du Cloux (b. Dec. 20, 1954), Dutch mathematician.  He died at age 51 from ALS.

2006 ~ Jack Palance (né Volodymyr Oalahniuk, b. Feb. 18, 1919), American actor.  He was born in Pennsylvania, the son of Ukrainian immigrants.  He died at age 87.

2001 ~ Ken Kesey (b. Sept. 17, 1935), America author, best known for his novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.  He died following complications from surgery at age 66.

1982 ~ Leonid Brezhnev (b. Dec. 19, 1906), General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.  He served in that Office from October 1964 until his death in November 1981.  He died at age 75.

1954 ~ Édouard Le Roy (b. June 18, 1870), French philosopher and mathematician.  He died at age 83.

1938 ~ Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (b. May 19, 1881), 1^st President of Turkey.  He brought Turkey into modernity.  He died at age 57.

1843 ~ John Trumbull (b. June 6, 1756), American painter.  Much of his work was done during the period of the American Revolution.  He died at age 87.

1549 ~ Pope Paul III (né Alessandro Farnese, b. Feb. 29, 1468).  He was Pope from October 13, 1534 until his death on this date 15 years later.  He died at age 81.

1444 ~ King Władysław III of Poland (b. Oct. 31, 1424).  He was killed in the Battle of Varna just 10 days after his 20^th birthday.

1241 ~ Pope Celestine IV (né Goffredo da Castiglione).  He was Pope from October 25, 1241 until his death about 2 weeks later.  The date of his birth is not known.

461 ~ Pope Leo I (b. 400).  He was Pope from September 29, 440 until his death 21 years later.  He is also known as St. Leo the Great.  The exact date of his birth is not known.