November 10 in history — What Happened Today in History

A Dassault Falcon 50 and a Piper PA-28 Cherokee collide in mid-air over Fairview, New Jersey, killing six people and injuring eight.

Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.

A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario.

The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.

Treaty of Osimo between Yugoslavia and Italy

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is a form of racism.

Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.

In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.

A Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount crashes into the Indian Ocean near Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, killing all 69 people on board.

Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.

Luna 17: uncrewed space mission launched by the Soviet Union.

National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street.

The Nauru Independence Act 1967 passed the Parliament of Australia, giving independence to the UN Trust Territory of Nauru with effect from 31 January 1968.

The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia.

With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Peruvian Andes mountains kills at least 1,400 people.

Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).

The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.

World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.

The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 more.

Finnish author F. E. Sillanpää is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.

The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.

White supremacists seized power and massacred black Americans during the Wilmington massacre, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.

Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes.

The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.

Kiernan Shipka, American actress

Claudine Co, Filipino singer and influencer

Karen Villanueva, Mexican rhythmic gymnast

Federico Dimarco, Italian footballer

Marios Georgiou, Cypriot gymnast

Maurice Gomis, Italian-Senegalese footballer

Daniel James, Welsh footballer

Joost Klein, Dutch musician

Giovanna Scoccimarro, German judoka

Yuriy Vakulko, Ukrainian footballer

Kim Hye-yoon, South Korean actress

Drew Lock, American football player

Ralfs Grīnbergs, Latvian ice hockey player

Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, American surfer and physician (born 1921)

Al Renfrew, American ice hockey player and coach (born 1924)

Vijaydan Detha, Indian author (born 1926)

John Grant, Australian neurosurgeon (born 1922)

John Matchefts, American ice hockey player and coach (born 1931)

Giorgio Orelli, Swiss poet and translator (born 1921)

John Louis Coffey, American lawyer and judge (born 1922)

Mitsuko Mori, Japanese actress (born 1920)

Piet van Zeil, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs (born 1927)

Peter J. Biondi, American soldier and politician (born 1942)

Ivan Martin Jirous, Czech poet (born 1944)

Killer Karl Kox, American professional wrestler (born 1931)

Dino De Laurentiis, Italian-American actor, producer, and production manager (born 1919)