Today in History in 1775 the United States Marine Corps is created; and in 1954 US President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery.

The On This Day In History archives at “Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia” contains over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 51 days remaining until the end of the year.

EVENTS

1444 – Battle of Varna: King Wladyslaw of Poland and Hungary is killed, after defeat to the Turks under Murad II.

1520 – King Christian II of Denmark orders the execution of dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath, after successfully invading Sweden.

1619 - René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.

1674 - The Netherlands cedes the New Netherland to England.

1775 – United States Marine Corps is created.

1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte becomes French consul.

1821 - Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de los Santos, Panama, sets into motion a revolt which will lead to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia.

1847 - Passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off Ireland, killing 92 out of the 110 people on board.

1865 - Major Henry Wirz, superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, US, is hanged.

1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates the explorer David Livingstone in Ujiji, Tanzania.

1890 - At Cabo Vilan, Spain, British ship HMS Serpent of the Royal Navy sinks in stormy seas, killing 172 people, with 3 being able to swim to safety.

1909 - The first outdoor ice rink opens in Vienna.

1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, following the declaring of a Republic in Germany, goes into exile in the Netherlands.

1928 – Coronation of Hirohito as Emperor of Japan.

1938 – The Kristallnacht ends. About 30 000 Jews are moved to concentration camps, and over 1500 synagogues are partly destroyed.

1938 - President of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Atatürk dies.

1940 - The 1940 Vrancea earthquake in Romania kills around 1,000 people.

1942 - World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French admiral Francois Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the allies in North Africa.

1944 - The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 people.

1945 - Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonists after World War II.

1946 - An earthquake in the Ancash region of Peru kills 1,400 people.

1951 - The US' first direct coast-to-coast service begins, between New Jersey and California.

1954 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery.

1958 - The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.

1969 – The television show Sesame Street airs for the first time in the United States.

1970 - For the first time in five years, a week passes without reports of US Military casualties in Vietnam.

1970 - Soviet lunar probe Lunokhod 1 is launched.

1971 - In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44 people.

1975 – The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew members on board.

1975 - The UN General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with Racism. This is repealed (removed) by 1991.

1978 - Larry Holmes wins the World Heavyweight Boxing title against Alfredo Evangelista.

1982 - Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev dies, being succeeded by Yuri Andropov, who himself dies only 15 months later, in February 1984.

1989 – Bulgaria's Communist regime under Todor Zhivkov falls.

1995 – Nine Nigerian human rights activists are executed, including the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa.

2001 – Apple Inc. starts selling the IPod.

2008 - Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission finished, after communication with the lander was lost.

2009 - Ships from the North Korean and South Korean navies clash off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.

2009 – John Allen Muhammad is executed for the Beltway sniper attacks.

2011 – Lucas Papademos is chosen to lead a caretaker government in Greece.

2012 - Four days after the United States Presidential Election, Florida is given to Barack Obama, sealing his 332-206 Electoral College win over Mitt Romney.

2013 - Marc Marquez becomes the youngest Moto GP world champion.

2014 - A suicide bomb attack at a school in northeastern Nigeria kills 48 people.

2019 - Spain holds its second general election in less than seven months, with the governing Socialist Party under Pedro Sánchez remaining the largest party but the far-right Vox Party doubling its number of seats.

2019 - Evo Morales resigns as President of Bolivia during a political crisis in the country over his disputed re-election on October 20.