TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: NOVEMBER 10
1647 All Dutch-held areas of New York are returned to English control by the treaty of Westminster.
1775 The U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress. The Marines went out of existence after the end of the Revolutionary War in April of 1783. The Marine Corps were formally re-established on July 11, 1798. This day is observed as the birth date of the United States Marine Corps.
1782 In the last battle of the American Revolution, George Rogers Clark attacks Indians and Loyalists at Chillicothe, in Ohio Territory.
1871 Journalist and explorer Henry Stanley found the missing David Livingstone in Central Africa and made his famous comment, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
1885 German engineer Gottlieb Daimler unveils the world’s first motorcycle
1917 Forty-one US suffragettes are arrested protesting outside the White House.
1938 Fascist Italy enacts anti-Semitic legislation.
1952 U.S. Supreme Court upholds the decision barring segregation on interstate railways.
1964 Australia begins a draft to fulfill its commitment in Vietnam.
1969 “Sesame Street” premieres on PBS TV
1970 13,000 miles / The Great Wall of China opened to the world for tourism.
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.
1973 Newspapers in North Dakota report that over 35 copies of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse Five” are burned. Many residents felt that the book was too pessimistic and it was not appropriate for school-aged children.
1975 The Edmund Fitzgerald carrying Iron Ore sinks in Lake Superior in storm with winds up to 75 miles an hour, all 23 crew members are feared lost.
1988 The U.S. Department of Energy announced that Texas would be the home of the atom-smashing super-collider. The project was cancelled by a vote of the U.S. Congress in Oct. 1993.
1993 The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Brady Bill, which called for a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases.
2006 Princeton has reported a 64% increase in applications from students in the UK
2009 Nearly 100 million are left without power including everyone in Paraquay and 60 million people in Brazil
2011 The FBI arrested six Estonians who were part of a cyber crime ring that made millions of dollars off of fraudulent advertising.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
