History for November 10

History for November 10 - On-This-Day.com

Russell Means 1939 - Oglala Lakota activist, actor

• 1775 - The U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress. This day is observed as the birth date of the United States Marine Corps.
• 1871 - Henry M. Stanley, journalist and explorer, found David Livingstone. Livingstone was a missing Scottish missionary in central Africa. Stanley delivered his famous greeting: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
• 1951 - Direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service began when Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, NJ, called his counterpart in Alameda, CA.
• 1975 - The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling ship, and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake Superior.
• 1980 - CBS News anchor Dan Rather claimed he had been kidnapped in a cab. It turned out that Rather had refused to pay the cab fare.
• 1982 - In Washington, DC, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to visitors.