Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 10

November 10:

Emperor Hirohito

• 1865: Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of Camp Sumter, was hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
• 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 (pictured) was crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan.
• 1969: Sesame Street debuted on the National Educational Television network in the United States.
• 1975: The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior with the loss of 29 lives.
• 1995: Playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People were executed by the Nigerian military government.

Recent days: November 9 – November 8 – November 7

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• October 31
• November 1
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