Daily Calendar for Tuesday, November 10, 2026
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Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Born
- Martin Luther (founder of the Lutheran church) –
- William Hogarth (painter) –
- Samuel Gridley Howe (physician) –
- Donald Baxter Macmillan (arctic explorer) –
- Claude Rains (actor) –
- Karl Jay Shapiro (poet) –
- Richard Burton (actor) –
- Roy Scheider (actor) –
- Norm Cash (baseball player) –
- Sinbad (actor) –
- MacKenzie Phillips (actress) –
- Ellen Pompeo (actress) –
- Brittany Murphy (actress) –
- Miranda Lambert (country singer) –
- Giovonnie Samuels (actress) –
- Josh Peck (actor) –
Died
- Leonid Brezhnev (Russian Premier) –
- Jack Palance (actor) –
- Norman Mailer (author) –
- Miriam Makeba (singer, referred to as Mama Africa) –
Events
- The American Continental Congress established a full-time national Marine Corps, the Continental Marines –
- Journalist Henry Morton Stanley located missing Scottish missionary, David Livingstone, in Central Africa, and delivered his famous greeting, Dr. Livingstone, I presume. –
- Statue of Our Lady of Prompt Succor first in the United States to be canonically crowned, New Orleans, Louisiana –
- National Book Week was first observed in the United States –
- Jeweler Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. –
- Gene Autry received a gold record for the single, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, 20 years after its release –
- Sesame Street made its television debut –
- Luna 17 spacecraft launched –
- The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore boat with 29 crewmen aboard, sank during a storm on Lake Superior –
Weather
- A tornado hit Great Bend, Kansas, killing 11 people and causing $1 million in damages –
- A storm in Minnesota produced record-breaking low pressure –
- More than seventy tornadoes churned across the eastern United States –
- 71 degrees F, East Milford, New Hampshire –