Today in History
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1969 Sesame Street premieres
Sesame Street, the long-running American children's television series, premiered on TV stations.
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1951 North American Numbering Plan begins
The plan standardized distance calling and gave phone numbers in cities a fixed 3 digit prefix, also
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1903 Windshield wiper patented
The US patent office granted inventor Mary Anderson a patent for automatic windshield wipers - a dev
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1898 Wilmington riots begin
Thought to be one of the only incidents of insurrection against a local government in the United Sta
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1775 US Marine Corps is created
The elite military force capable of operating on land, sea and air was founded in Philadelphia durin
Births On This Day,
November, 10
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1968 Tracy Morgan
American comedian, actor
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1960 Neil Gaiman
English author, illustrator, screenwriter
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1928 Ennio Morricone
Italian composer, conductor
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1759 Friedrich Schiller
German poet, playwright, historian
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1483 Martin Luther
German monk, priest, leader of the Protestant Reformation
Deaths On This Day,
November, 10
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2015 Helmut Schmidt
German politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany
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2007 Norman Mailer
American author, journalist
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1982 Leonid Brezhnev
Soviet politician
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1938 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Turkish army officer, politician, 1st President of Turkey
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1917 Harry Trott
Australian cricketer
