On This Day November 10th

 OTD

November 10th is the 314th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 55 days remain until the end of the year.

 

Events

1702 – English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War.

1775 – Samuel Nicholas founded the United States Marine Corps at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia.

1847 – The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster resulted in the construction of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.

1865 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes.

1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".

1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land and sea and in the air.

1951 – With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service began in the United States.

1958 – New York diamond merchant Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institution.

1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.

 

Birthdays

1483 – Martin Luther, German monk and priest, leader of the Protestant Reformation (d. 1546)

1735 – Granville Sharp, the English activist and scholar, co-founded the Sierra Leone Company (d. 1813)

1810 – George Jennings, the English plumber and engineer, invented the flush toilet (d. 1882)

1886 – Edward Joseph Collins, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1951)

1909 – Johnny Marks, American composer and songwriter (d. 1985)

1919 – Michael Strank, American sergeant and flag raiser at the Battle of Iwo Jima (d. 1945)

1929 – W. E. B. Griffin, American soldier and author (d. 2019)

1944 – Tim Rice, English lyricist and author

1959 – Mackenzie Phillips, American actress

1968 – Tracy Morgan, American comedian and actor

1992 – Teddy Bridgewater, American football player

 

Holiday Spotlight

Forget-Me-Not-Day

  Forget-me-nots are the tiny blue meadow flowers that are incredibly symbolic. From losing loved ones to missing a childhood friend, the flowers have become synonymous with feelings of missing and longing. In New Zealand, Forget Me Not Day is dedicated to those afflicted with or who have lost loved ones due to cognitive degenerative Alzheimer’s disease. While some versions of Forget Me Not Day celebrate this sort of loss or reconnecting with long-lost loved ones, this Forget Me Not Day focuses on something different but also meaningful.

 Forget Me Not Day as we know it was established following World War I, when Judge Robert S. Marx, himself a WWI veteran, declared the holiday in honor of veterans who had suffered physical losses in the line of battle — those who had lost limbs, blood, and other integral body parts. Along with the holiday, Marx inaugurated the tradition of selling the popular forget-me-not flowers, repurposing them to raise money for wounded veterans.

 Whatever reason you choose to recognize Forget Me Not Day, don’t forget the pretty blue flowers! Your contributions in buying those will surely go to one of a laundry list of good causes that receive support from flower sales each year.

 

Other Include

American Frog Day

Area Code Day

Day of the “Primer Grito de Independencia”

Domino Day

International Accounting Day

National Vanilla Cupcake Day

Sesame Street Day

US Marine Corps Birthday (USMC)

Veteran's Day

Windows Day (Microsoft)

World Keratoconus Day

World Science Day for Peace and Development

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