What are the important events that happened on November 10? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
November 10: Facts & Myths About This Day
November 10 is the 314th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 51 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 28, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 489,648 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectadecatetragon’ day.
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Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 99 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,707 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 10 Historical Events
- 1293 –Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana.
- 1674 –Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
- 1766 –The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen’s College (later renamed Rutgers University).
- 1871 –Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”.
- 1910 –The date of Thomas A. Davis’ opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
- 1918 –The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
- 1971 –In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.
- 1979 –A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada just west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
- 1997 –WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
- 2006 –Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.
Who were born on November 10?
- 1341 –Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman and former Lord Marshall (d. 1408)
- 1577 –Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist and politician (d. 1660)
- 1907 –John Moore, English author (d. 1967)
- 1912 –Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (d. 1999)
- 1919 –Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian inventor
- 1920 –Jennifer Holt, American actress (d. 1997)
- 1947 –Glen Buxton, American musician (Alice Cooper) (d. 1997)
- 1952 –Gerry DiNardo, American football coach
- 1961 –Rudolf Grimm, Austrian physics professor
- 1970 –Vince Vieluf, American actor
Who died on November 10?
- 1241 –Pope Celestine IV
- 1659 –Afzal Khan, Adilshahi Emperor by Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King in Battle of Pratapgarh
- 1938 –Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkish statesman (b. 1881)
- 1984 –Xavier Herbert, Australian author (b. 1901)
- 1986 –Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (b. 1916)
- 1997 –Tommy Tedesco, American musician (b. 1930)
- 2004 –Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (b. 1907)
- 2007 –Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920)
- 2007 –Norman Mailer, American author (b. 1923)
- 2010 –Dave Niehaus, American sportscaster (b. 1935)
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