Believe it or not, almost every day of every year has a history of celebrating famous people for things they did or things that were first invented.
We have compiled some of the events that happened on November 10.
- 1775 – The U.S. Marine Corps was created.
- 1903 – The US patent office granted inventor Mary Anderson a patent for automatic windshield wipers.
- 1918 – Independence of Poland was proclaimed by Józef Piłsudski.
- 1938 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first president of Turkey, died.
- 1950 – Jacobo Árbenz was elected President of Guatemala.
- 1970 – The Great Wall of China opened for tourism.
- 1975 – The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution that equated Zionism with racism.
- 1977 – The Major Indoor Soccer League was officially organized in New York City.
- 1978 – Israel’s top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks.
- 1982 – Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev died of a heart attack at age 75.
- 1983 – The U.S. Federal government shut down.
- 1989 – Bulgarian party president Todor Zjikov resigned.
- 1989 – Germans began demolishing the Berlin Wall.
- 1990 – Chandra Shekhar was sworn in as India’s new prime minister.
- 1994 – Iraq recognized Kuwait’s borders in the hope that the action would end trade sanctions.
- 1998 – At the White House, “The Virtual Wall” website (www.thevirtualwall.org) was unveiled.
- 2001 – The World Trade Organization approved China’s membership.
- 2012 – The final US presidential election results were declared after Barack Obama won Florida, defeating Mitt Romney 332-206 in Electoral College votes.
- 2014 – Ethel Kennedy was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama and the first wife.
- 2019 – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced the discovery of a new oil field with an estimated 53 million barrels of oil.
- 2020 – The Xbox Series X and the Xbox Series S were released by Microsoft.