Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 10

November 10:

From A Celebration of Me, Grover, showing much of the main cast of Sesame Street. Left to right, a penguin, Elmo, Zoe, Big Bird, Grover, Bert, Ernie, Cookie Monster

• 1871 - "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?", Henry Morton Stanley located missing missionary and explorer, David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania.
• 1928 - Hirohito was crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan.
• 1969 - Sesame Street debuted on National Educational Television.
• 1975 - The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 3379, which equated Zionism with racism.
• 1995 - Playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, was executed by the Nigerian military government.

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