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History on the 10th of November

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10 Nov 1766 RELIGIOUS In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Queen's College was chartered under the Dutch Reformed Church, to provide education "...especially in divinity, preparing [youth] for the ministry and other good offices." The present name of the school, Rutgers University, was adopted in 1924.
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10 Nov 1770 RELIGIOUS French philosopher Fran_'__ois Voltaire, 75, uttered his famous remark: 'If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.'
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10 Nov 1871 RELIGIOUS Following seven months of searching, foreign correspondent to the "New York Herald" Henry M. Stanley succeeded at last in locating Scottish missionary David Livingstone in Ujiji, Central Africa. Stanley prefaced his encounter with these words: 'Dr. Livingstone, I presume.'
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10 Nov 1915 WW1 Begin of Fourth Battle of the Isonzo
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10 Nov 1918 WW2 Douglas MacArthur was appointed the commander of the US 42nd Division at the rank of temporary major general. 
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10 Nov 1918 WW2 Andrew McNaughton was promoted to the rank of brevet brigadier-general. 
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10 Nov 1918 WW2 Captain Kosaburo Uchida was named the commanding officer of Settsu. 
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10 Nov 1921 WW2 Hiroaki Abe was transferred out of Japanese Navy 3rd Fleet. 
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10 Nov 1921 WW2 Lorraine began a period of refitting. 
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10 Nov 1922 WW2 Kinu was commissioned into service. 
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10 Nov 1922 WW2 Captain Morio Matsudaira was named the commanding officer of both battlesihp Settsu and battlecruiser Ibuki. 
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10 Nov 1922 WW2 Rear Admiral Chikateru Takasaki was named the chief of staff of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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10 Nov 1923 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was name an instructor at the Japanese naval war college. 
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10 Nov 1927 WW2 Chiang Kaishek arrived in Shanghai, China from Japan. 
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10 Nov 1927 WW2 HMS Rodney was commissioned into service. 
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10 Nov 1928 WW2 Emperor Showa was officially crowned the Emperor of Japan, even though he had been the head of state since his father Emperor Taisho's passing on 25 Dec 1926. 
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10 Nov 1930 WW2 Amagiri was commissioned into service. 
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10 Nov 1932 WW2 British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in a speech said: "The bomber will always get through. The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children than the enemy if you want to save yourselves." 
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10 Nov 1932 WW2 The final design for HMS Phaeton was approved. 
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10 Nov 1936 WW2 Captain Kanji Ugaki was named the commanding officer of Tenryu. 
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10 Nov 1937 WW2 A document sent from the German Foreign Office to Adolf Hitler revealed that German should test British sentiments toward Germany by demanding territory concessions. 
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10 Nov 1937 WW2 The Hossbach Memorandum was completed, which outlined Adolf Hitler's plans for German autarchy and future expansion. 
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10 Nov 1938 WW2 Hungary completed the occupation of territory ceded by Czechoslovakia per the First Vienna Award. 
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10 Nov 1938 WW2 Erwin Rommel became the commanding officer of the military academy at Wiener Neustadt in southern Germany. 
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10 Nov 1938 WW2 Georg von Bismarck became the commanding officer of the 7th Infantry Regiment in Gera, Germany. 
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10 Nov 1938 WW2 The defensive garrison at Changsha, Hunan Province, China organized special teams around the city, who task was to set designated buildings ablaze once given the signal. The goal of it was to deprive the Japanese the use of the city should it fall to the imminent Japanese attack. 
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10 Nov 1939 WW2 The Dutch Army canceled leave and reinforced border defenses. 
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10 Nov 1939 WW2 British Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs Anthony Eden met with French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier and Commander-in-Chief General Maurice Gamelin in Paris, France, joined by representatives from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and India. 
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10 Nov 1940 WW2 British anti-submarine trawler HMS Kingston Alalite hit a mine and sank off Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, killing 6. 
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10 Nov 1940 WW2 In northern Greece, Greek troops continued to push Italian troops back toward the Albanian border both in the coastal region as well as in the Pindus Mountains. 
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10 Nov 1940 WW2 British monitor HMS Terror departed Malta for Suda Bay, Crete, Greece to serve as a guard ship. 
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10 Nov 1940 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis, disguised as British auxiliary cruiser HMS Antenor in the darkness before dawn, closed in on Norwegian tanker Ole Jacob in the Bay of Bengal. After a tense stand-off, the Norwegian captain decided to surrender, fearing that a gunfight might ignite the cargo of 11,000 barrels of high-octane aviation fuel. Ole Jacob was captured as a prize ship and sent first to Japan and then to France, carrying a cargo of aviation fuel and the captured prisoners from Ole Jacob and Teddy. Ole Jacob's distress signal would resulted in the dispatching of Australian cruisers Canberra, Capetown, and Durban, but they would fail to catch Atlantis. 
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10 Nov 1940 WW2 British gunboat HMS Aphis shelled Italian positions at Sidi Barrani, Egypt overnight. 
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10 Nov 1940 WW2 The Director of the US Marine Corps Reserve formally integrated his organization into the regular US Marine Corps. 
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10 Nov 1940 WW2 The first Avro Manchester Mk. 1 bomber to be delivered went to No. 207 Squadron RAF (Squadron Leader Noel Challis Hyde) based at RAF Waddington in the county of Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. 
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10 Nov 1941 WW2 American warships including carrier USS Ranger began to escort a troop convoy with more than 20,000 soldiers from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for Britain; the troop ships were US Navy ships as well. 
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10 Nov 1941 WW2 American destroyer Ericsson, escorting convoy HX 157, depth charged sound contact. 
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10 Nov 1941 WW2 US Navy Asiatic Fleet issued orders to withdraw Yangtze River river gunboats and US Marines from China. 
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10 Nov 1941 WW2 Operation Flipper was launched, with submarines HMS Torbay and HMS Talisman, with commandos aboard, to be delivered behind enemy lines in Libya. 
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10 Nov 1941 WW2 Walther von Brauchitsch suffered a heart attack. 
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10 Nov 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Proteus sank German ship Ithaka off the island of Milos, Greece. 
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10 Nov 1941 WW2 Greek submarine Glaukos damaged German ship Norburg north of Crete, Greece. 
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10 Nov 1941 WW2 The Operation Perpetual convoy, escorted by battleship HMS Malaya, cruiser HMS Hermione, and seven destroyers, departed from Gibraltar. At the center of the convoy, British carriers HMS Ark Royal and HMS Argus were tasked with delivering 37 Hurricane fighters for Malta. 
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10 Nov 1941 WW2 The Italian "San Marco" naval infantry regiment formed a 3rd battalion by drawing three companies from the two existing battalions. 
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10 Nov 1941 WW2 German General Erich von Manstein launched a major assault against Sevastopol, Russia with 50th Infantry Division, followed by the 132nd Infantry Division on the next day. On the Soviet side, Vice Admiral F. S. Oktyabrsky (with Major General I. A. Petrov as his deputy) mobilized 52,000 men, of whom 21,000 were sailors, together with 170 guns (some were in modern steel and concrete emplacements), for the defence of Sevastopol. 
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10 Nov 1941 WW2 The keel of submarine Tunny was laid down at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States. 
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10 Nov 1941 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt ordered protection for dams, power plants, and other important infrastructure sites. In the evening, he had dinner with Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd. 
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10 Nov 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Buin, Bougainville. 
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10 Nov 1942 WW2 French submarine Le Tonnant attacked USS Ranger off French Morocco at 1000 hours; all four torpedoes missed, and the American counterattack was equally ineffective. On land, American troops captured the French fort of Kasbah, which led to the fall of Port Lyautey. At Casablanca, American ships sortied to respond to an attack by French sloops only to be surprised by an operational Jean Bart; aircraft from USS Ranger was launched to sink Jean Bart in shallow water by bombing. 
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10 Nov 1942 WW2 Allied forces in French Algeria pushed into Tunisia. In response, Axis transport aircraft were being prepared to bring in reinforcements. 
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10 Nov 1942 WW2 British Prime Minister Churchill said, in a speech, "ow this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." 
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10 Nov 1942 WW2 The US Marine Corps established the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing at Cherry Point, North Carolina, United States under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Calvin Freeman. 
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10 Nov 1942 WW2 The US 2nd Marine Regiment, US 8th Marine Regiment, and the US Army 164th Regiment attacked unsuccessfully westward from Point Cruz toward Kokumbona on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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10 Nov 1942 WW2 As Pierre Laval visited Adolf Hitler in Germany, Hitler told the French Prime Minister that Germany intended on moving its forces into Vichy France and Tunisia; Hitler did not share the timetable and gave no indication that it was to happen soon. Laval did not protest. At 2030 hours, Hitler gave the order to launch the occupation on the following day. 
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10 Nov 1942 WW2 Admiral Soemu Toyoda stepped down as the commanding officer of Kure Naval District, Japan. 
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10 Nov 1942 WW2 77th P-40F fighters of USAAF 33rd Fighter Group launched from USS Chenango and proceeded to the French airfield at Port Lyantey, French Morocco. 
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10 Nov 1942 WW2 USS Whale began a period of repair at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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10 Nov 1942 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Mail service (guard) by plane established between Kaneohe, Pearl Harbor, and Barber's Point 
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10 Nov 1942 WW2 USAAF 12th Bombardment Squadron ceased anti-submarine operations from St. Croix Airfield in the US Virgin Islands. 
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10 Nov 1943 WW2 Soviet troops broke through German lines near Gomel, Byelorussia. 
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10 Nov 1943 WW2 Joseph Stilwell's command in the China-Burma-India theater reported to the US War Department that railway experts and troops had been sent to India to assist in defense and operations. 
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10 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Grayback arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her eighth war patrol. 
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10 Nov 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki arrived at Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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10 Nov 1944 WW2 Friedrich Christiansen was named the commanding officer of the German 25th Army. 
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10 Nov 1944 WW2 Japanese troops captured the airfields at Guilin and Liuchow in China only to find that there were no B-29 facilities at either location. The American B-29 bases were actually further to the northwest at Chengdu in Sichuan Province. 
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10 Nov 1944 WW2 Roza Shanina recorded in her diary the death of her lover Misha Panarin. 
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10 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Croaker arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her second war patrol. 
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10 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Sterlet departed Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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10 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Ticonderoga reversed course and traveled for the Philippine Islands at flank speed; she was located about 800 miles east of the Philippine Islands. 
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10 Nov 1944 WW2 British government lifted the ban on reporting rocket attacks on Britain after Prime Minister Churchill announced to the Parliament that British cities had been under rocket attack "for the last few weeks"; German V-2 rocket attacks had in fact started on 8 Sep 1944, or more than two months prior to Churchill's announcement. On the same day, a V-2 rocket hit Goulson Street in Stepney, London, England United Kingdom, killing 19, seriously injuring 97, and lightly injuring 323. 
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10 Nov 1944 WW2 Hazel Lee was ordered to go to the Bell Aircraft factory at Niagara Falls, New York, United States to ferry a P-63 Kingcobra fighter to Great Falls, Montana, United States. 
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10 Nov 1945 WW2 United States Secretary of War Robert Patterson ordered all cyclotrons in Japan destroyed. 
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10 Nov 1945 WW2 Submarine R-1 was struck from the US Naval Register. 
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10 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Saint Paul arrived at Shanghai, China. 
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10 Nov 1948 WW2 Du Yuming was assigned to the Xuzhou Anti-Communist Command based in Jiangsu Province, China. 
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10 Nov 1952 RELIGIOUS English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'I believe that, in the present divided state of Christendom, those who are at the heart of each division are all closer to one another than those who are at the fringes.'
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10 Nov 1977 RELIGIOUS It was announced that Pope Paul VI had ended the automatic excommunication imposed on divorced American Catholics who remarried. (The excommunication was first imposed by the Plenary Council of American Bishops in 1884.)
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