November 10

Today in History
• 1674 - Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (New York) to the English
• 1775 - Congress forms U.S. Marine Corps
• 1793 - France ends forced worship of God
• 1801 - Kentucky outlaws duelling
• 1871 - Henry Morton Stanley encounters David Livingstone at Ujiji
• 1885 - German engineer Gottlieb Daimler unveils the world's first motorcycle
• 1891 - 1st Women's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
• 1908 - 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Area Code Day
• Day of the “Primer Grito de Independencia”
• Forget Me Not Day
• International Accounting Day
• Marine Corps Birthday
• National Vanilla Cupcake Day
• World Immunisation Day
• World Science Day for Peace and Development

Birthdays
• 1483 - Martin Luther, German theologian and key figure in the Protestant Reformation
• 1683 - George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland (1727-60)
• 1793 - Jared Kirtland, U.S., physician/naturalist/reformed penitentiaries
• 1810 - George Jennings, English sanitary engineer (invented first public flush toilets)
• 1868 - Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo
• 1919 - Moise Tshombe, President of Katanga, then premier of the Congo, Zaire
• 1930 - Clarence M Pendleton, Jr., chairman of U.S. comm on Civil Rights, 1981-88
• 1947 - Bechir Gemayel, President Lebanon, 8/23-9/14, 1982