Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 10

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 * 1202 – Fourth Crusade: The Siege of Zara (present-day Zadar, Croatia), the first attack on a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders, began.
 * 1940 – An earthquake registering 7.7 Mw struck the Vrancea region of Romania.
 * 1969 – The children's television series Sesame Street premiered in the United States.
 * 1972 – Three men hijacked Southern Airways Flight 49 and threatened to crash it into Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the U.S. state of Tennessee.
 * 1975 – SS Edmund Fitzgerald (pictured) sank in Lake Superior with the loss of 29 lives.
 * 1995 – Writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People were executed by the Nigerian military government.
 * 2006 – Prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer Nadarajah Raviraj was assassinated in Colombo.
 * 2007 – At the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, King Juan Carlos I of Spain asked Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez "Why don't you shut up?" after Chávez repeatedly interrupted a speech by Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
 * 2009 – Ships of the South Korean and North Korean navies skirmished off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.
 * 2020 – The British government announced that it had removed the last land mine from the Falkland Islands, laid by Argentine forces during the 1982 Falklands War.
 * Born/died: | Guðrøðr Óláfsson |d|1187| Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg |b|1547| Afzal Khan |d|1659| Andrés Manuel del Río |b|1764| St. George Tucker |d|1827| Maria Jane Williams |d|1873| Louis Lingg |d|1887|Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu |b|1887|  Arthur Rimbaud |d|1891| Neil Gaiman |b|1960| Leona Woods |d|1986| Mary Millar |d|1998|Ken Kesey |d|2001| Canaan Banana |d|2003

November 10


 * 1599 – At the culmination of a Swedish civil war, supporters of the deposed Sigismund III Vasa were publicly executed in what came to be known as the Åbo Bloodbath.
 * 1865 – Henry Wirz, the Confederate superintendent of Andersonville Prison, was hanged after a controversial conviction, becoming the only American Civil War officer executed for war crimes.
 * 1871 – Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley (pictured) located missing missionary and explorer David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania.
 * 1937 – Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas led a coup against his own constitutional government, establishing the dictatorial Estado Novo regime.
 * 1945 – Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby on 30 October, British forces retaliated by attacking Surabaya.