11-09-2011, 09:34 PM
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November 10th
1775 ~ The Continental Congress passed a resolution creating the Continental Marines, later renamed the United States Marine Corps.
1871 ~ Henry Morton Stanley located missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1919 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Kalashnikov, Soviet inventor, AK-47.
1925 ~ Birthday of Richard Burton, Actor.
1951 ~ Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service began in the United States.
1975 ~ The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a song about the tragedy.
1982 ~ The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. opened to public.
1983 ~ Birthday of Sammie Rhodes, Porn Actress.
1995 ~ Execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and human rights activist.
2007 ~ Death of Norman Mailer, American author.
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