Happy Birthday, Sesame Street! Today is Friday, November 10, 2017, the 314th day of the year with 51 days remaining.
- Sunrise: 6:44am
- Sunset: 5:01pm
...giving us 11 hours and 12 minutes of daylight. 62% of the waning gibbous moon will be visible, rising at 11:54pm
Tides at the Golden Gate
- High: 5:27am/4:20pm
- Low: 10:40am/11:01pm
Special international celebrations today…
- Anniversary of 1st Call for Independence in Los Santos - Panama
- Independence (Cry of) - Palau
- Maputo City Day (Maputo only) - Mozambique
- Militsiya (Police) Day - Russia
- Potosi Local Festival - Bolivia
It’s also…
- Area Code Day
- NET Cancer Awareness Day
- Marine Corps Birthday
- Sesame Street Day
- Veteran's Day
- Windows Day (Microsoft)
- World Science Day for Peace and Development
- Forget Me Not Day
- Vanilla Cupcake Day
On this day in…
1775 - TheU.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress. The Marines
went out of existence after the end of the Revolutionary War in April of 1783. The Marine Corps were formally re-established on July 11, 1798. This day is observed as the birth date of the United States Marine Corps.
1801 - TheU.S. state ofTennessee outlawed the practice of dueling.
1871 - Henry M. Stanley, journalist and explorer, found David Livingstone. Livingston was a missing Scottish missionary in central Africa. Stanley delivered his famous greeting: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1879 - Western Union and the National Bell Telephone Company reached a settlement over various telephone patents.
1917 - 41 suffragists were arrested in front of the White House.
1919 - The American Legion held its first national convention, in Minneapolis,MN.
1928 - Michinomiya Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of Japan.
1951 - Direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service began when Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood,NJ, called his counterpart in Alameda,CA.
1954 - The Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated in Arlington,VA.
1957 - 102,368 people attended the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams game. The crowd was the largest regular-season crowd in NFL history.
1969 - "Sesame Street" made its debut on PBS.
1970 - The Great Wall of China opened for tourism.
1975 - The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution that equated Zionism with racism. The resolution was repealed in December of 1991.
1975 - The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling ship, and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake Superior.
1976 - TheUtah Supreme Court gave approval for Gary Gilmore to be executed, according to his wishes. The convicted murderer was put to death the following January.
1977 - The Major Indoor Soccer League was officially organized in New York City. (New York)
1980 - CBS News anchor Dan Rather claimed he had been kidnapped in a cab. It turned out that Rather had refused to pay the cab fare.
1982 - Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev died of a heart attack at age 75. He was succeeded by Yuri V. Andropov.
1982 - In Washington,DC, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to visitors.
1984 - TheU.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1986 - Camille Sontag and Marcel Coudari, two Frenchmen were released by the captors that held them in Lebanon.
1988 - TheU.S. Department of Energy announced thatTexas would be the home of the atom-smashing super-collider. The project was cancelled by a vote of theU.S. Congress in Oct. 1993.
1990 - Chandra Shekhar was sworn in as India's new prime minister.
1991 - Robert Maxwell was buried in Israel, five days after his body was recovered off the Canary Islands.
1993 - John Wayne Bobbitt was acquitted on the charge of marital sexual assault against his wife who sexually mutilated him. Lorena Bobbitt was later acquitted of malicious wounding her husband.
1993 - TheU.S. House of Representatives passed the Brady Bill, which called for a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases.
1994 -U.S. officials announced that it planned to stop enforcing the arms embargo against the Bosnian government the following week. The U.N. Security Council was opposed to lifting the ban.
1994 - Iraq recognized Kuwait's borders in the hope that the action would end trade sanctions.
1995 - Nigeria's military rulers hanged playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa along with several other anti-government activists.
1995 - In Katmandu, Nepal, searchers rescued 549 hikers after a massive avalanche struck the Himalayan foothills. The disaster left 24 tourists and 32 Nepalese dead.
1996 - Dan Marino (Miami Dolphins) became the first quarterback inNFL history to pass for more than 50,000 yards. (Florida)
1997 - WorldCom Inc. acquired MCI Communication Corporation. It was the largest merger inU.S. history valued at $37 billion.
1997 - A jury inVirginia convicted Mir Aimal Kasi of the murder of two CIA employees in 1993.
1997 - A judge in Cambridge,MA, reduced Louise Woodward's murder conviction to manslaughter and sentenced the English au pair to time served. She had served 279 days in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen.
1998 - At the White House, "The Virtual Wall" website (www.thevirtualwall.org) was unveiled. The site allows visitors to experience The Wall through the Internet.
1999 - Ted Danson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2001 - The World Trade Organization approved China's membership.
2001 - The musical "Lady Diana - A Smile Charms the World" opened in Germany.
2004 - Yusuf Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens) was awarded the "Man for Peace" prize in Rome at the opening of a meeting of Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
Today’s birthday celebrants include (or included)...
- Martin Luther 1483 - German friar, Catholic priest, leader of the Protestant Reformation
- Oliver Goldsmith 1728 - Novelist, playwright, poet
- Jared Kirtland 1793 - Naturalist, malacologist, politician
- Jane Froman 1907 - Singer, actress
- William E. "Billy" May 1916 - Composer, arranger, trumpeter
- George Fenneman 1919 - Radio and television announcer
- Russell Johnson 1924 - Actor ("Gilligan's Island")
- Richard Burton 1925 - Actor
- Ennio Morricone 1928 - Composer, orchestrator, conductor
- Paul Bley 1932 - Pianist
- Bobby Rush 1934 - Singer
- Roy Scheider 1932 - Actor ("Jaws")
- Albert Hall 1937 - Actor
- Russell Means 1939 - Oglala Lakota activist, actor
- Tim Rice 1944 - Lyricist
- Alaina Reed-Hall 1946 - Actress
- David Allen "Dave" Loggins 1947 - Singer, songwriter, musician
- Greg Lake 1948 - Musician, singer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
- Donna Fargo 1949 - Singer, songwriter
- Ann Reinking 1949 - Actress, dancer
- Bram Tchaikovsky 1949 - Singer, guitarist (The Motors)
- Ronnie Hammond (Atlanta Rhythm Section) 1950
- Jack Scalia 1950 - Actor
- Roland Emmerich 1955 - Director
- Sinbad 1956 - Actor, comedian
- Matt Craven 1956 - Actor
- MacKenzie Phillips 1959 - Actress ("One Day at a Time")
- Hugh Bonneville 1963 - Actor ("Downton Abbey")
- Michael Jai White 1964 - Actor
- Chris Gage 1968 - Singer
- Tracy Morgan 1968 - Actor ("30 Rock," "Saturday Night Live")
- Ellen Pompeo 1969 - Actress ("Grey's Anatomy")
