November 10 ...

In 1483 Martin Luther was born in Eisleben, Germany. In 1775 the US Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress. In 1871 journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley found missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone in central Africa, uttering the famous line, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" In 1928 Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of Japan. In 1942 Winston Churchill delivered a speech in London in which he said, "I have not become the King's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." In 1954 the Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated by President Eisenhower in Arlington, VA. In 1969 the children's educational program Sesame Street made its debut on PBS. In 1975 the UN General Assembly approved a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the world body repealed the outrageous resolution in December 1991); also on this day, the ore-hauling ship Edmund Fitzgerald and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake Superior. In 1982 Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev died at age 75 and was suceeded by Yuri Andropov; also on this day, the newly finished Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to its first visitors in Washington, DC. In 2004 Yasser Arafat died at age 75 (because of the time difference, it was the early hours of November 11 in Paris, where Arafat died).