11-10-2004, 06:24 AM
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November 10th
1483 ~ Birthday of Martin Luther, a leader of the Protestant Reformation.
1668 ~ Birthday of François Couperin, French composer.
1775 ~ American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress passed a resolution creating the Continental Marines (later renamed the United States Marine Corps) to serve as landing troops for the recently created Continental Navy.
1871 ~ Henry Morton Stanley located missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1919 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Soviet inventor, AK-47.
1925 ~ Birthday of Richard Burton, Actor.
1938 ~ Death of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of Turkey.
1951 ~ Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service began in the United States.
1975 ~ The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board. Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a song about the tragedy.
2084 ~ A transit of Earth from Mars will be visible to hypothetical future Mars colonists.
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