November 10, 2023
QUOTE
God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
--Martin Luther
BIRTHDAYS
1483 – Martin Luther, German monk and priest, leader of the Protestant Reformation
1871 – Winston Churchill, American author and painter
1932 – Roy Scheider, Actor
1968 – Tracy Morgan, Comedian and actor
IN MEMORY
1982 – Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian general and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union
1992 – Chuck Connors, Actor
2006 – Jack Palance, Boxer and actor
2007 – Norman Mailer, Novelist and essayist
IN ON THIS DAY
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?”.
1898 – Beginning of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
1944 – The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia.
1969 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street.
1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.