November 10 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for November 10
In the headlines today:

1997	Guitar wizard Tommy Tedesco (Monkees, Partridge Family, 5th Dimension) dies of cancer in Los Angeles at age 67.
1992	Actor Chuck Connors dies of lung cancer in Los Angeles at age 71.
1982	Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75.
1982	The Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens to visitors in Washington, DC.
1975	The ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald and her crew of 29 disappears without a trace on Lake Superior during a storm. Singer Gordon Lightfoot would later memorialize the incident in song.
1969	The children's TV show Sesame Street debuts on PBS.
1951	Direct-dial coast-to-coast long distance telephone service begins in the US.
1928	Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan.
1919	The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, MN.
1871	Explorer and journalist Sir Henry Morton Stanley locates missing Scottish missionary Dr. David Livingstone in central Africa: "Doctor Livingstone, I presume?"
1834	US president Franklin Pierce marries Jane Appleton.
1775	The United States Marines Corps is organized.