November 10 in History

• 1775

  November 10, 1775:

  The United States Marine Corps is established.

• 1898

  November 10, 1898:

  White supremacists undertake what would become known as the Wilmington coup and massacre, resulting in the death of 60 Black Americans.

• 1928

  November 10, 1928:

  The World War I novel, “All Quiet on the Western Front” is published in Vossische Zeitung, a German newspaper.

• 1958

  November 10, 1958:

  Washington D.C.’s Smithsonian Institution receives a blue diamond, known as the Hope diamond as a donation.

• 1969

  November 10, 1969:

  “Sesame Street” makes its debut on the National Educational Television channel.

• 1975

  November 10, 1975:

  The Edmund Fitzgerald, an American cargo ship, sinks in Lake Superior during a storm.

• 1990

  November 10, 1990:

  Popular American comedy movie, “Home Alone” is premiered in Chicago.

• 1995

  November 10, 1995:

  Nigerian writer and environment activist Ken Saro-Wiwa is executed by hanging with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People for the alleged murder of four traditional leaders.

• 2001

  November 10, 2001:

  The World Trade Organization finally approves the membership of China.

• 2019

  November 10, 2019:

  The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales resigns after he was accused of winning the elections as a result of electoral irregularities.