November 10 birthdays & history

Famous people born on November 10

• 1483Martin Luther, German monk and priest, leader of the Protestant Reformation
• 1759Friedrich Schiller, German poet and playwright
• 1919Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian general and engineer, designed the AK-47
• 1928Ennio Morricone, Italian trumpet player, composer, and conductor
• 1925Richard Burton, Welsh actor and singer
• 1728Oliver Goldsmith, Irish-English author, poet, and playwright
• 1697William Hogarth, English painter, illustrator, and critic
• 1960Neil Gaiman, English author, illustrator, and screenwriter
• 1989Taron Egerton, Welsh actor
• 1977Brittany Murphy, American actress and singer

What happened on November 10

• 1871Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
• 1939Finnish author F. E. Sillanpää is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1951With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
• 1958The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
• 1967The Nauru Independence Act 1967 passed the Parliament of Australia, giving independence to the UN Trust Territory of Nauru with effect from 31 January 1968.
• 1969The first episode of the children's television series Sesame Street was broadcast in the United States.
• 1969National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street.
• 1970Luna 17: uncrewed space mission launched by the Soviet Union.
• 1975Treaty of Osimo between Yugoslavia and Italy
• 1983Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.
• 1989Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.
• 2007At 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.

Also observed on November 10

• Cry of Independence Day (Panama)
• Day of Remembrance of Atatürk (Turkey)
• Day of Russian Militsiya (Russia)
• Heroes Day (Indonesia) or Hari Pahlawan
• Martinisingen (Germany)
• United States Marine Corps birthday (United States)