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November 10
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1775 - The Continental Congress of the American colonies, in preparation for their revolt against the British (The Revolutionary War), authorized the formation of two battalions of marines. Although this was the true birth of the U.S. Marine Corps, it wasn’t until 1798 that Congress recreated the Marine Corps as a separate military service.

1871 - Henry Stanley found the missing Scotsman, David Livingstone. Livingstone, an explorer and missionary, had been missing for two years. No white man had seen him in six years. Through a promotion sponsored by The New York Herald, Stanley and several companions set out looking for Livingstone some eight months earlier. (Stanley’s fellow explorers died before this day.) Stanley’s search for Dr. Livingstone ended at Ujiji, Africa. He greeted the doctor with, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume.” Features Spotlight

1876 - The Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia closed. The exposition had attracted millions of people for the celebration of America’s first hundred years.

1888 - Fritz Kreisler, a 13-year-old violinist from Vienna, made his American debut in New York City.

1900 - Floradora opened in New York City this day. The play was received by cheering audiences.

1911 - The Carnegie Corporation of New York was established “to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding.” It was the first of the great U.S. foundations for scholarly and charitable works.

1928 - It was on this day, after Knute Rockne delivered his ‘Win One for the Gipper’ halftime speech to the Irish players, that Notre Dame upset Army, 12-6. Rockne’s speech: “The day before he died, George Gipp asked me to wait until the situation seemed hopeless, then ask a Notre Dame team to go out and beat Army for him. This is the day, and you are the team.”

1931 - For the second year in a row, Conrad Nagel hosted the Academy Awards. This year’s gala celebration, the Academy’s fourth, was at the Sala D’Oro Room at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. The runaway winner was Cimarron (Outstanding Production - RKO Radio; Art Direction - Max Ree; Writing/Adaptation - Howard Estabrook). Best Actor honors went to Lionel Barrymore for his stellar performance in A Free Soul; ditto for Best Actress Marie Dressler in Min and Bill. The Best Directing Award for Skippy went to Norman Taurog, and Best Cinematography accolades were earned by Floyd Crosby for his work on Tabu. The Academy Award for Best Writing/Original Story was presented to John Monk Saunders for his script, The Dawn Patrol. Several Scientific and Technical Awards were also presented for the first time.

1939 - Muggsy Spanier and his band recorded Dipper Mouth Blues on Bluebird Records.

1939 - The first air-conditioned automobile went on display at the Auto Show in Chicago. The car was a Packard. The air conditioner consisted of a large evaporator, called the cooling coil, which took up the entire trunk of the car.

1942 - Winston Churchill, in a speech in London, commented on the British defeat of German Afrika Korps in Egypt (The Battle of Egypt). The Prime Minister said, “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

1950 - Monty Woolley starred as The Magnificent Montague, which debuted on NBC radio. Monty Woolley starred as Edwin ‘the Magnificent’ Montague, a former Shakespearean actor who had been forced to make his living in the radio biz.

1956 - Billie Holiday returned to the New York City stage at Carnegie Hall after a three-year absence. The concert was called a high point in jazz history.

1969 - On this day, twenty years after the first release of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Gene Autry received a gold record for the single.

1969 - “Can you tell me how to get ... how to get to Sesame Street?” The classic, Sesame Street debuted on 170 Public Broadcasting stations and 20 commercial outlets. Created by the Children’s Television Workshop, the show starred endearing characters including Gordon, Susan, Bob, Bert, Ernie, the Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch and, of course, Big Bird!

1970 - The Broadway musical Two by Two opened at the Imperial Theatre. With music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Martin Charnin, the show starred Danny Kaye, Marilyn Cooper, Joan Copeland, Harry Goz, Madeline Kahn, Michael Karm, Tricia O’Neil and Walter Willison. Two by Two ran for ten months with 351 performances, closing Sep 11, 1971.

1972 - Mickey (Arthur) McBride died on this day. McBride owned the Cleveland Browns in the 1940s and 1950s -- and also owned a taxicab company. Browns’ coach Paul Brown kept five non-roster players on a special squad. They could practice with the team in case a regular player was hurt, but the squad’s salaries were paid by McBride’s taxi company. Thus, the term, ‘taxi squad’. According to Terry Pluto, in his When All the World was Browns Town, taxi squad members never drove cars, they were just driven in practice by Paul Brown -- and supported by Mickey McBride.

1975 - The worst Great Lakes shipwreck of the time, the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, occurred this day. It was a cold and stormy Lake Superior (Native Americans knew it as Gitche Gumee) that took the lives of 29 crew members of the ore carrier.

1982 - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) lent Mexico $3.7 billion to forestall its threatened bankruptcy.

1982 - Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev died at age 75. Control of the Kremlin passed to Yuri Andropov.

1982 - The newly completed Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to its first visitors in Washington, DC.

1983- Microsoft announced the new Windows operating system. Windows featured a graphical user interface (GUI) and multitasking environment for IBM computers.

1984 - The Maryland Terrapins set an NCAA football record. They came from a 31-0 halftime deficit to defeat Miami’s Hurricanes, 42-40. The game broke the record (set on October 20, 1984) when Washington State came back from 28 points behind to defeat Stanford, 49-42.

1986 - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Live/1975-85, the long-anticipated album by ‘The Boss’, hit record stores this day. Fans made the LP a one-day sellout, buying over a million copies and generating more first-day dollars than any record in 30 years. It’s a five-disc, 40-song set.

1990 - Chandra Shekhar was sworn in as India’s prime minister.

1991 - British publishing magnate Robert Maxwell was buried in Israel, five days after his body was recovered off the Canary Islands. (He had disappeared from his luxury yacht, Lady Ghislane, Nov 5.)

1993 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Brady Bill. The bill called for a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases.

1994 - The Codex Leicester, the only Leonardo da Vinci manuscript owned in the United States and the only one in the world still in private hands, was sold at auction. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates paid $30.8 million for it. It has been since been exhibited in Venice, Milan, Rome, Paris and New York.

1995 - Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, starring Jim Carrey, with a little help from Ian McNeice, Simon Callow, Maynard Eziashi and Tommy Davidson opened. It brought in $108,360,000 in the U.S. “ALLLRIGHTY then...”

1996 - Dan Marino was first NFL quarterback to throw for 50,000 yards in his career. He reached that mark as he completed a pass to O.J. McDuffie in a game against the Indianapolis Colts this day. Marino went on to a run up a career record of 61,361 yards passing.

1997 - Judge Hiller Zobel in Cambridge, MA reduced Louise Woodward’s murder conviction to manslaughter and sentenced the English au pair to the 279 days she had already served in the death of eight-month-old Matthew Eappen.

1998 - It was reported that an estimated 18 million people in Bangladesh were slowly poisoning themselves by drinking from groundwater contaminated with trace amounts of arsenic. 85 million people (of 126 million in the country) were at risk.

1999 - Pokémon the First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back debuted in the U.S. Described variously as “weird and wacky humor”; “truly funny, goofy and stupid”; and “hilarious lowbrow humor,” the animated kiddie flick scooped up $85.7 million in the U.S, and $155.7 million worldwide. Wacky, indeed.

2000 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Little Nicky, starring Adam Sandler, Harvey Keitel and Patricia Arquette (“If your father was the devil And your mother was an angel You'd be messed up too!”); Men of Honor, with Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Charlize Theron (“History is made by those who break rules.”); and Red Planet, starring Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss and Tom Sizemore (“Not a sound. Not a warning. Not a chance. Not alone.”)

2001 - Author Ken Kesey died in Eugene, Oregon. He was 66 years old. Kesey’s books included One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) and Sometimes a Great Notion (1964).

2002 - Dozens of tornadoes sliced their way from Louisiana to Pennsylvania on this night, carving up farmland and forests and nearly erasing whole communities in Alabama, Tennessee and Ohio. In what the National Weather Service describes as one of the worst November tornado outbreaks on record, seventeen people were killed in Tennessee, twelve in Alabama, five in Ohio and one each in Mississippi and Pennsylvania.

2003 - U.S. Federal regulators ruled that customers could ‘port’ their home phone numbers to their cell phones -- if your wireless company and your (wired) telephone company have overlapping coverage in your locality.

2004 - The Polar Express opened in the U.S. The animated family adventure features the voices of Tom Hanks, Leslie Harter Zemeckis, Eddie Deezen, Nona M. Gaye, Peter Scolari, Brendan King, Andy Pellick, Josh Eli, Mark Mendonca, Rolandas Hendricks, Mark Goodman, Jon Scott Gregory Gast, Sean Scott and Gordon Hart.

2005 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf won the Liberian presidential runoff (defeating George Weah) to become the first female president on the continent of Africa.

2005 - An investigation showed metal pilings in the 17th Street Canal -- whose failure flooded much of New Orleans, Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina -- were seven feet shorter than the Corps of Engineers had said they were.

2006 - Films debuting in the U.S.: A Good Year, with Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Abbie Cornish, Marion Cotillard, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Didier Bourdon, Tom Hollander and Freddie Highmore; Harsh Times, starring Christian Bale, Freddy Rodriguez and Eva Longoria, The Return, with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kate Beahan, Peter O Brien, Adam Scott and Sam Shepard; and Stranger Than Fiction, starring Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah and Emma Thompson.

2006 - U.S. President George Bush (II) dedicated the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Virginia.

2006 - Broadway and film actor Jack Palance died in southern California at 87 years of age. Palance appeared in hundreds of film and TV roles, including: Sudden Fear, Shane, Man in the Attic, The Big Knife, Attack, Flight to Tangier, Sign of the Pagan, Requiem for a Heavyweight, and his Oscar-winning (supporting actor) performance as Curly Washburn in City Slickers.

2007 - Deaths on this day: Norman Mailer (84), writer: The Naked and the Dead (1948) and The Executioner’s Song (1979); and film actress Laraine Day (86): Dr. Kildare film series from (1938-1941) -- she was married for 13 years to baseball mgr Leo Durocher and was known as ‘The First Lady of Baseball’.

2008 - U.S. electronics retailer Circuit City filed for bankruptcy protection, but announced it would stay open for business through the holiday season.

2008 - South African folk singer -- and civil rights activist -- Miriam Makeba, known as ‘Mama Afrika’, died ((heart attack) in southern Italy. She was 75 years old, and had just performing at a concert against organized crime.

2008 - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and wife, Michelle, met with President George Bush (II) and First Lady Laura at the White House. Obama urged Bush to help the ailing U.S. auto industry.

2009 - Utah’s Mormon church announced its support for gay rights legislation, an endorsement that helped gain unanimous approval for Salt Lake city laws banning discrimination against gays in housing and employment.

2009 - Activision released its Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Within a few days, sales of the video game brought in $550 million, breaking records in several countries.

2010 - Morning Glory opened in the U.S. The comedy stars Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, 50 Cent, Patrick Wilson and Jeff Goldblum.

2010 - President Barack Obama’s deficit commission proposed an ambitious plan to rebalance the U.S. budget. The plan called for the slashing of some $4 trillion in red ink, included cuts to most federal programs, curbing increases in Social Security benefits, and wiping out over $100 billion in tax breaks.

2011 - Thousands of enraged Penn State students marched through the streets of State College, PA in protest of the firing of longtime head football coach Joe Paterno. The turmoil followed the arrest of former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, who had charged with abusing at least eight boys over 15 years. Paterno and University president Graham Spanier, who was also fired, had come under intense pressure because they were also told of at least one sexual abuse incident, but did not alert police.

2012 - President Barack Obama was declared the winner of Florida’s 29 electoral votes, ending a four-day count with a razor-thin margin, but not quite as close as the infamous margin in the 2000 U.S. presidential election. The Florida victory put the president, who had clinched reelection on Nov 6 without the state, at a final electoral vote count of 332 -- to Mitt Romney’s 206.

2013 - NATO’s anti-piracy force arrested nine pirates who tried to hijack a Danish oil and chemical carrier in the Indian Ocean. The TORM KANSAS, owned by the Danish shipping company Torm A/S, was en route from Sikka in India to Mossel Bay in South Africa when the pirates opened fire as it passed east of Tanzania.

2013 - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would do all it could to keep world powers from striking abad and dangerous” deal with Iran over its nuclear program.

2014 - India’s Supreme Court ordered the lifting of a 59-year-old union ban on women working as makeup artists in the movie industry. In its response to the 2013 petition to the court by nine women, judges said the film set ban was “constitutionally impermissible discrimination.”

2015 - U.S. and California officials said they would allow solar, wind and other renewable energy development on 400,000 acres of public lands in the California desert. The decision also set aside 5 million acres of the desert for conservation.

2016 - Newly-elected POTUS-elect Donald Trump was accorded a chilly but deferential welcome to the White House. The 90-minute meeting with President Barack Obama was a private one -- in the Oval Office. “I want to emphasize to you, Mr. President-elect, that we now are going to do everything we can to help you succeed because if you succeed, then the country succeeds,” Obama told his successor during a brief photo opportunity after the meeting.

2017 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Daddy’s Home 2, with Linda Cardellini, Mark Wahlberg and Mel Gibson; Murder on the Orient Express, starring Daisy Ridley, Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer; Bitch, with Caroline Aaron, Eric Edelstein and Kingston Foster; Lady Bird, starring Saoirse Ronan, Odeya Rush and Kathryn Newton; Roman Israel, Esq., with Denzel Washington, Colin Farrell and Carmen Ejogo; and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, starring Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell.

2017 - Actor Louis C.K. admitted to engaging in sexual misconduct as recounted by several women, three of whom said he had masturbated in front of them. This, and TV and film companies moved quickly to sever ties with the comedian. “These stories are true,” C.K. said in a statement.

2017 - Ride-hailing company Uber lost its appeal in London against a landmark court ruling that gave British drivers the right to paid holidays and the national minimum wage.

2018 - POTUS Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron insisted they were good friends after a dustup over European security. Macron, who proposed creating a European army because of what he saw as wavering U.S. support, said his idea backed up Trump’s call for more burden sharing by Europe. “We need more European capacities, more European defense,” Macron said, speaking in both French and English.

2019 - Mannford, Oklahoma police chief Lucky Miller was found dead in a Pensacola Beach, Florida hotel. Officer Michael Nealey was booked into the Escambia County Jail the next day and charged with homicide. The pair had been attending a Florida conference and got into an argument at the hotel.

2020 - An English study said high levels of so-called "T cells" that respond to the coronavirus could be sufficient to offer protection against infection, adding to the evidence of the crucial role they play in immunity to COVID-19. T cells, a type of white blood cell that makes up part of a healthy immune system, are thought to be essential to protect against infection from the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus, and could provide longer term immunity than antibodies.

2020 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he saw no distinction between Democrats and Republicans and intended to stand up for Israel’s interests in the face of the new U.S. administration.

2020 - Stock markets climbed after news that a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech was proving more effective than expected.

2021 - Prince Charles anointed Elton John as a member of the Order of the Companions of Honor. This, in an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle.

2021 - A SpaceX rocket carried four astronauts into orbit from Florida, including the 600th person to reach space in 60 years. Germany’s Matthias Maurer claimed that #600 position.

2021 - Former New Jersey gym owner Scott Fairlamb, who was the first person to plead guilty to assaulting a police officer during the attack on the Capitol Jan 6, 2021, was sentenced to 41 months in prison. It was the most severe punishment given so far to any of the more than 650 people charged in the insurrection/riot.

2022 - Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban banned women from using public parks and funfairs. They had already been banned from just about everything else.

2022 - NASA reported a 15-by-15-foot section of the space shuttle Challenger, which broke apart shortly after liftoff in 1986, had been found in the sand at the bottom of the Atlantic, off the coast of Florida. All seven on board died in the accident. Divers for a documentary film crew found the fragment. It was the first piece found since two fragments from the left wing washed ashore in 1996.

2022 - District Judge Mark Pittman blocked President Biden’s student-loan forgiveness plan. Pittman, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, said Biden overstepped his authority at the expense of Congress’ power to make laws.

2023 - Movies scheduled to open in the U.S. included: Journey to Bethlehem, with Antonio Banderas, Milo Manheim and Omid Djalili; The Marvels, starring Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson and Zawe Ashton; and The Holdovers, with Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa and Da’Vine Joy Randolph.

2023 - The largest hospital in Gaza, where up to 50,000 people were sheltering, was being bombarded, the World Health Organization reported. Palestinian officials said Israel launched airstrikes on or near four hospitals and a school, killing at least 22 people. Speaking to the BBC, French President Emmanuel Macron said, “There is no other solution than first a humanitarian pause, going to a ceasefire, which will allow to protect … all civilians having nothing to do with terrorists.”

2023 - Israel women’s groups warned of a failure to keep evidence of sexual violence in Hamas attacks. And rights groups feared the lack of investigative work means gender-based nature of some of violence had been overlooked. Tal Hochman, a government relations officer at the Israel Women’s Network, said: “Most of the women who were raped were then killed, and we will never understand the full picture, because either bodies were burned too badly or the victims were buried and the forensic evidence buried too. No samples were taken. “Women are not believed when they report sexual violence even in normal times, and now that chance for justice and dignity has been lost. There are some survivors we are working with or are being treated privately. We also have no idea about what is happening to women currently being held by Hamas in Gaza,” she said.

2023 - The Beatles single, Now and Then, hit #1 on a British Official Singles Chart -- a record 60 years after their first #1 single, From Me to You. Now and Then originated as a ballad that John Lennon wrote and recorded around 1977, but left unfinished. It was completed in 2023 by surviving bandmates Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, using old overdubs and guitar tracks by George Harrison (who died in 2001).

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Jump to Top Birthdays on This Day    November 10

1483 - Martin Luther
religious leader: founder of Protestantism: wrote 95 theses: On the Power of Indulgences, calling for reformation of the Roman Catholic Church; died Feb 18, 1546

1697 - William Hogarth
painter, engraver: Four Stages of Cruelty, A Rake’s Progress, A Harlot’s Progress; died Oct 25, 1764

1730 - Oliver Goldsmith
playwright: She Stoops to Conquer, The Vicar of Wakefield; died Apr 4, 1774

1793 - Jared P. (Potter) Kirtland
physician; naturalist: found the first Kirtland’s Warbler [now, a rare bird]; died Dec 10, 1877

1889 - Claude Rains
actor: Casablanca, The Invisible Man, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Lawrence of Arabia; died May 30, 1967

1907 - Jane Froman
singer: I Only Have Eyes for You, I’ll Walk Alone, I Believe; died Apr 22, 1980

1911 - Harry Andrews
actor: Jack the Ripper, Inside Story, The Seven Dials Mystery, S.O.S. Titanic, Superman, The Big Sleep, Sky Riders; died Mar 6, 1989

1912 - Birdie Tebbetts
baseball: catcher: Detroit Tigers [World Series: 1940/all-star: 1941, 1942], Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1948, 1949], Cleveland Indians; manager: Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians; died Mar 24, 1999

1914 - Tod Andrews
actor: The President’s Plane Is Missing, Hang ’Em High, Between Heaven and Hell, Voodoo Man, Spy Ship, Beneath the Planet of the Apes; died Nov 7, 1972

1916 - Billy May
composer, bandleader: many of Sinatra’s Capitol hits; died Jan 22, 2004

1919 - George Fenneman
announcer: radio/TV: You Bet Your Life [w/Groucho Marx]; TV host: Your Funny, Funny Films, Anybody Can Play; died May 29, 1997

1924 - Russell Johnson
actor: Gilligan’s Island, Lux Video Theatre, Black Saddle, Laramie, Lassie, Gunsmoke, Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law, The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island, With a Vengeance; died Jan 16, 2014

1925 - Richard Burton
actor: Camelot, Hamlet, Anne of the Thousand Days, Becket, The Desert Rats, The Longest Day, Look Back in Anger, The Night of the Iguana, The Robe, The Sandpiper, The Taming of the Shrew, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; TV narrator: Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years, Ellis Island; one of Elizabeth Taylor’s ex-husbands; died Aug 5, 1984

1932 - Paul Bley
pianist, composer: LP: Open to Love, Fragments, My Standard; founding member: Jazz Composers Guild; died Jan 3, 2016; more

1932 - Roy Scheider
actor: All that Jazz, Blue Thunder, Marathon Man, The French Connection, Jaws series, 2010, 52 Pickup, seaQuest DSV; died Feb 10, 2008

1935 - Pippa Scott
actress: Mr. Lucky, The Virginian, The Sound of Murder, Terror on the 40th Floor, My Sister Hank, Some Kind of a Nut, For Pete’s Sake, My Six Loves

1939 - Russell Means
civil rights leader: American Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native Americans; known for his leading role at Wounded South Dakota in 1973, when 200 Oglala Lakota occupied the town; died Oct 22, 2012

1944 - Tim Rice
lyricist: with Andrew Lloyd Weber: Jesus Christ, Superstar, Evita, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; film scores: Gumshoe, Odessa File

1945 - Donna Fargo
Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter: The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. [1972]; Funny Face

1947 - Glen Buxton
songwriter, musician: lead guitar: group: Alice Cooper: I’m Eighteen, Is It My Body, Desperado, Under My Wheels, Be My Lover, School’s Out, Elected, Hello Hooray; died Oct 19, 1997

1947 - Greg Lake
musician: bass, singer: group: Emerson, Lake and Palmer: From the Beginning, Lucky Man; solo: I Believe in Father Christmas; died Dec 7, 2016

1947 - Dave Loggins
singer: Please Come to Boston; cousin of singer Kenny Loggins

1949 - Ann Reinking
dancer, actress: Pippin, All that Jazz, Annie, Mickey and Maude

1950 - Ronnie Hammond
singer: group: Atlanta Rhythm Section: So in to You, Imaginary Lover; died Mar 14, 2011

1950 - Jack Scalia
actor: Pointman, The Devlin Connection, Dallas, High Performance, Berrenger’s, Hollywood Beat, Storybook, Shattered Image, Wolf, Tequila & Bonetti; TV host: Stuntmasters

1953 - Rusty Chambers
football: Miami Dolphins LB

1955 - Jack Clark
baseball: SF Giants [all-star: 1978, 1979], SL Cardinals [World Series: 1985/all-star: 1985, 1986], NY Yankees, SD Padres, Boston Red Sox

1956 - Sinbad
actor, comedian: A Different World, The Sinbad Show, The Redd Foxx Show, Coneheads, The Cherokee Kid, Good Burger; TV host: Showtime at the Apollo

1959 - Mackenzie Phillips
actress: One Day at a Time, American Graffiti, Eleanor & Franklin; daughter of singer John Phillips [The Mamas and The Papas]

1963 - Hugh Bonneville
actor: Downton Abbey, Twenty Twelve, Hippie Hippie Shake, The Monuments Men, The Hotel, Paddington; more

1963 - Tommy Davidson
comedian, actor, impersonator: In Living Color, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Strictly Business, Booty Call, Juwanna Mann, Black Dynamite: The Animated Series, Who Killed Soul Glow?

1963 - Mike McCarthy
football: coach: NFL: Green Bay Packers [2006–2018]: 2011 Super Bowl XLV champs

1963 - Mike Powell
track and field: long-jump world record holder: 8.95 m [29 ft 4½ in] 1991; won two gold medals at the World Championships [1991, 1993] and two silver medals at the Summer Olympics [1988, 1992]; UCLA jumps and multi-events coach

1964 - Keith Lockhart
baseball: San Diego Padres, Kansas City Royals, Atlanta Braves

1964 - Kenny Rogers
baseball [pitcher]: Texas Rangers, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, New York Mets, Minnesota Twins

1965 - Sean Hughes
comedian: youngest ever winner of the Perrirer comedy award; actor: Girl on a Cycle, Puckoon, The Greatest Store in the World, Fast Food, The Butcher Boy, Snakes and Laddders, Rocket Man II; died Oct 16, 2017

1966 - Vanessa Angel
actress: Trick or Treat, Raptor Island 2: Raptor Planet, Criminal Intent, SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2, The Perfect Score, Camouflage

1967 - Tom Papa
comedian, actor: Behind the Candleabra, The Marriage Ref, Just for Laughs; more

1967 - Michael Jai White
martial arts performer, actor: Universal Soldier film series, Cross Undisputed 2, Getting Played, Blood and Bone, Freedom Song, Exit Wounds

1968 - Tracy Morgan
comedian, actor: Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock, The Tracy Morgan Show, Why Stop Now, Death at a Funeral, Totally Awesome, 30 Years to Life

1969 - Ellen Pompeo
actress: Grey’s Anatomy, Life of the Party, Nobody’s Perfect, Old School, Daredevil, Catch Me If You Can, Eventual Wife, 8 1/2 x 11

1969 - Ed Ward
hockey [right wing]: Quebec Nordiques, Calgary Flames, Atlanta Thrashers, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, New Jersey Devils

1971 - Walt Goggins
actor: The Unicorn, The Shield, Justified, Miracle at St. Anna, Predators, The Accountant [Academy Award [Best Short Subject: 2002]

1971 - Athena Massey
actress: Poison Ivy: The New Seduction, Undercover Heat, Red Shoe Diaries, The Nutty Professor, Molly, Seinfeld, Star Trek: Voyager, Nash Bridges, Black Scorpion Returns, Termination Man, Undercover Heat

1972 - DJ Ashba
musician: guitar: groups: Guns N’ Roses, Sixx:A.M.

1972 - Isaac Bruce
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Memphis; NFL: LA/St. Louis Rams

1972 - Shawn Green
baseball [right field]: Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Dodgers, Arizona Diamondbacks, New York Mets

1973 - Mike Flanagan
football [center]: UCLA; NFL: Green Bay Packers

1973 - Darius Holland
football [defensive tackle]: Univ of Colorado; NFL: Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions, Cleveland Browns. Minnesota Vikings, Denver Broncos

1977 - Brittany Murphy
actress: Clueless, Freeway, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Girl, Interrupted, Cherry Falls, Riding in Cars with Boys; died Dec 20, 2009

1978 - Eve (Jihan Jeffers)
rapper: Gangsta Lovin’, Figure You Out, Ryde Away, Double R What, Who’s That Girl?, That’s What It Is, You Ain’t Gettin’ None

1978 - David Paetkau
actor: Final Destination 2, Whistler, Goon, Flashpoint, For Heaven’s Sake, Bang Bang You’re Dead, Just Deal

1980 - Donte’ Stallworth
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Tennessee; NFL: New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots

1982 - Heather Matarazzo
actress: Now and Again, Believe in Me, The Princess Diaries, Saved!, Sorority Boys, Scream 3, Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge

1983 - Miranda Lambert
singer: Me and Charlie Talking, Bring Me Down, Kerosene, New Strings, Famous in a Small Town, Gunpowder & Lead, More Like Her, The House That Built Me, Heart Like Mine, Baggage Claim, Over You

1984 - Kendrick Perkins
basketball [center]: Boston Celtics [2003–2011]: NBA champs [2008]; Oklahoma City Thunder [2011–2015]; Cleveland Cavaliers [2015]; New Orleans Pelicans [2015–2016]

1986 - Britney Amber
actress [2008- ]: X-rated films: Primal Fantasies – Britney Amber – Reverse Psychology, Internal Cumbustion 14, Cumcocktion, This Ain’t Intervention XXX, Barely Legal Glory Holes, Go Big or Go Home, Unplanned Orgies and Spontaneous Gangbangs 3, Pegging: A Strap on Love Story 2, Handjobs and Handcuffs 1, Real Story Of Thanksgiving, Great American Slut Off 2, Man-Eaters, This Ain't Modern Family XXX, Breast Intentions

1986 - Josh Peck
actor: Drake & Josh, The Amanda Show, Mean Creek, Drillbit Taylor, The Wackness, Red Dawn, ATM

1989 - Taron Egerton
actor: Kingsman: The Secret Service, Testament of Youth, Legend, Eddie the Eagle, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Billionaire Boys Club, Robin Hood

1990 - Zach Ertz
football [tight end]: NFL: Philadelphia Eagles [2013-2021]: 2018 Super Bowl LII champs; Arizona Cardinals [2021–2023]; Detroit Lions [2023]; Washington Commanders [2024– ]

1994 - John Rahm
golf champion: PGA: 2017 Farmers Insurance Open, 2018 CareerBuilder Challenge; 2021 U.S. Open; 2023 Masters

1999 - Kiernan Shipka
actress: Mad Men, The Legend of Korra, Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, Very Good Girls, Squeaky Clean, Carriers, Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

2000 - Mackenzie Foy
actress: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, Interstellar, The Cookie Mobster, Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, Black Beauty

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Jump to Top Hit Music on This Day    November 10

1951Because of You (facts) - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas (facts) - Tony Martin
Down Yonder (facts) - Del Wood
Slow Poke (facts) - Pee Wee King

1960Save the Last Dance for Me (facts) - The Drifters
Poetry in Motion (facts) - Johnny Tillotson
Georgia on My Mind (facts) - Ray Charles
Alabam (facts) - Cowboy Copas

1969Wedding Bell Blues (facts) - The 5th Dimension
Come Together (facts) - The Beatles
Something (facts) - The Beatles
To See My Angel Cry (facts) - Conway Twitty

1978You Needed Me (facts) - Anne Murray
MacArthur Park (facts) - Donna Summer
Reminiscing (facts) - Little River Band
Sleeping Single in a Double Bed (facts) - Barbara Mandrell

1987I Think We’re Alone Now (facts) - Tiffany
Causing a Commotion (facts) - Madonna
Mony Mony (facts) - Billy Idol
Am I Blue (facts) - George Strait

1996No Diggity (facts) - BLACKstreet (Featuring Dr. Dre)
It’s All Coming Back to Me Now (facts) - Celine Dion
Un-Break My Heart (facts) - Toni Braxton
Like the Rain (facts) - Clint Black

2005Gold Digger (facts) - Kanye West
Because of You (facts) - Kelly Clarkson
My Humps (facts) - Black Eyed Peas
Better Life (facts) - Keith Urban

2014All About That Bass (facts) - Meghan Trainor
Shake It Off (facts) - Taylor Swift
Habits (Stay High) (facts) - Tove Lo
Burnin’ It Down (facts) - Jason Aldean

and even more...
Billboard, Pop/Rock Oldies, Songfacts, Country


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