10 November in history
5 events that happened on 10 November, from 1202 to 1975.
✦ Anniversary of the day
1202 CE 824 years ago
The Fourth Crusade lays siege to the Christian city of Zara
Crusaders unable to pay the Venetians for their fleet arrived at Zara on the Dalmatian coast and besieged it for Venice. The city fell within two weeks, and Pope Innocent III excommunicated the crusaders.
1775 CE 251 years ago
The Continental Congress creates the Continental Marines
The Continental Congress resolved to raise two battalions of Marines. The date is celebrated as the birthday of the United States Marine Corps.
1871 CE 155 years ago
Henry Morton Stanley finds David Livingstone at Ujiji
The journalist Henry Morton Stanley located the missionary-explorer David Livingstone at Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika, by Stanley's own dating. His reported greeting, 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?', became famous.
1938 CE 88 years ago
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk dies in Istanbul
Atatürk, founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey, died at Dolmabahçe Palace. Turks still pause at 9.05 in the morning on this day to mark the moment of his death.
1975 CE 51 years ago
The freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior
The ore carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a violent storm on Lake Superior with the loss of all 29 crew. It is the largest ship lost on the Great Lakes.
