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November 10: Day of the Week
November 10, 2024 is the 315th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 51 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Nichiyōbi.
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Here’s the November calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
November 10 Historical Event(s)
1520
Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden.
1659
Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh. This is also recognised as the first defence of Swarajya
1775
The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
1871
Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”.
1910
The date of Thomas A. Davis’ opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
1944
The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
1972
Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
1975
The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
1979
A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada just west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
1984
The first Breeders’ Cup takes place at Hollywood Park Racetrack.
Who were born on November 10?
1341
Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman and former Lord Marshall (d. 1408)
1480
Bridget of York, English princess and nun (d. 1517)
1620
Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtesan and writer (d. 1705)
1801
Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872)
1850
Arthur Goring Thomas, English composer (d. 1892)
1912
Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (d. 1999)
1924
Bobby Limb, Australian entertainer (d. 1999)
1939
Allan Moffat, Canadian-Australian race car driver
1950
Jack Scalia, American actor
1955
Jack Clark, American baseball player
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