November 10
Today in America's Present Past
1674 | The Dutch formally cede New Netherland (New York) to the English.
1766 | Queens College, now Rutgers, was formed.
1775 | Congress: The Second Continental Congress formed the Continental Marines, precursor to the United States Marine Corps.
1777 | Shawnee Chief Cornstalk died.
1779 | Founder Joseph Hewes died.
1793 | Physician Jared Kirtland was born.
1801 | Abolitionist Samuel Gridley Howe was born.
1819 | Entrepreneur Cyrus West Field was born.
1843 | Painter John Trumbull died.
1871 | Author Winston Churchill was born.
1891 | The first Women’s Christian Temperance Union meeting was held.
1893 | Author John P. Marquand was born.
1898 | Civil Rights: Wilmington, North Carolina, Democrats violently overthrow the ruling biracial Democrats.
1908 | The first Gideon Bible was placed in hotels.
1917 | Civil Rights: 41 suffragists were arrested in front of White House.
1919 | The American Legion’s first national convention was held.
1930 | Activist Clarence M. Pendleton Jr. was born.
1938 | Pearl Buck won the Nobel for literature.
1939 | Activist Russell Means was born.
1940 | Cold War: Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the FBI on Hollywood subversives.
1942 | Economist Robert Engle was born.
1950 | William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize for literature.
1954 | The “Marine Corps War Memorial” unveiled in Arlington County, Virginia.
1956 | Comedian Sinbad was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
1956 | Entrepreneur Henry Ford Sinclair died.
1966 | Pro Wrestler Bill DeMott was born.
1966 | Tennis Pro Evelyn Sears died.
1969 | TV: ”Sesame Street” debuted.
1971 | Writer Walter Van Tilburg Clark died.
1975 | The iron ore freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in a storm on Lake Superior, Michigan.
1983 | Actress Mirada Lambert was born.
1990 | Film: “Home Alone” debuted.
1991 | Pro Wrestler Dick the Bruiser died.
1992 | Actor and author Chuck Connors died.
1994 | Physicist William Higinbotham died.
2001 | Author Ken Kesey died.
2007 | Author Norman Mailer died.
2014 | Film: “The Hunger Games” debuted.