10 November History
- 1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers Antigua during his second expedition.
- 1556 - The Englishman Richard Chancellor is drowned off Aberdeenshire on his return from a second voyage to Russia.
- 1647 - All Dutch-held area of New York are returned to English control by the treaty of Westminster.
- 1775 - U.S. Marine Corps founded.
- 1782 - In the last battle of the American Revolution, George Rodgers Clark attacks Indians and Loyalists at Chillicothe, in Ohio Territory.
- 1871 - Henry M. Stanley finds Dr. Livingstone at Ujiji near Unyanyembe in Africa.
- 1879 - Little Bighorn participant Major Marcus Reno is caught window-peeping at the daughter of his commanding officer–an offense for which he will be court-martialed.
- 1911 - President Taft ends a 15,000-mile, 57-day speaking tour.
- 1911 - The Imperial government of China retakes Nanking.
- 1917 - Forty-one US suffragettes are arrested protesting outside the White House.
- 1938 - Fascist Italy enacts anti-Semitic legislation.
- 1941 - Churchill promises to join the U.S. "within the hour" in the event of war with Japan.
- 1942 - Admiral Jean Darlan orders French forces in North Africa to cease resistance to the Anglo-American forces.
- 1952 - U.S. Supreme Court upholds the decision barring segregation on interstate railways.
- 1961 - Andrew Hatcher is named associate press secretary to President John F. Kennedy.
- 1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt is buried, she had died three days earlier.
- 1964 - Australia begins a draft to fulfill its commitment in Vietnam.
- 1969 - The PBS children's program Sesame Street debuts.
- 1971 - Two women are tarred and feathered in Belfast for dating British soldiers, while in Londonderry, Northern Ireland a Catholic girl is also tarred and feathered for her intention of marrying a British soldier.
- 1972 - Hijackers divert a jet to Detroit, demanding $10 million and ten parachutes.
- 1975 - The iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald breaks in half and sinks at the eastern end of Lake Superior–all 29 crew members perish.
- 1986 - President Ronald Reagan refuses to reveal details of the Iran arms sale.
10 November Birthdays
- 1483 - Martin Luther, theologian and reformer.
- 1697 - William Hogarth, English caricaturist.
- 1730 - Oliver Goldsmith, playwright (She Stoops to Conquer).
- 1759 - Friedrich von Schiller, playwright and poet.
- 1801 - Samuel Gridley Howe, educator of the blind.
- 1879 - Vachel Lindsay, poet (Rhymes to be Traded for Bread).
- 1882 - Frances Perkins, first woman cabinet member–Secretary of Labor.
- 1925 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor famous for his roles in The Spy who Came in From the Cold and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf