TODAY IN HISTORY - NOVEMBER 10
Events in the past will always be a part of our lives whether it be good or bad.
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- 1775 - US Marine Corps founded
- The U.S. Marines was organized under authority of the Continental Congress.
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- 1865: Henry Wirz hanged
- Swiss immigrant and the commander of Andersonville prison in Georgia, Henry Wirz was hanged for the murders of imprisoned soldiers during Civil War.
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- 1871: Henry M. Stanley finds David Livingstone
- Journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley found Scottish missionary David Livingstone, who had not been heard for years, near Lake Tanganyika in central Africa.
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- 1928: Hirohito became 124th emperor of Japan
- Michinomiya Hirohito took over the throne two years after the death of his father Emperor Taishō.
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- 1938: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk died
- Turkish statesman Mustafa Kemal Ataturk died in Istanbul at age 57.
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- 1954 - Iwo Jima Memorial dedicated
- The U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, depicting the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, is dedicated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Arlington, Virginia.
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- 1970: The Great Wall of China
- The Great Wall of China, built across the historical northern borders of China to protect the Chinese states and empires against the raids and invasions of the various nomadic groups was opened for tourism.
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- 1975 - UN General Assembly Resolution 3379
- The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution equating Zionism with racism . The world body repealed the resolution in Dec. 1991.
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- 1979: Freight train
- A 106-car freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario derailed in Mississauga, Canada.
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- 1982: Leonid Brezhnev died
- Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev died at age 75.
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- 1982: Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- The newly finished Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to its first visitors in Washington, D.C., three days before its dedication.
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- 1995: Nigerian military executed Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others
- Nigeria’s military rulers ordered the execution of playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop).
