10th November anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1759
  • "Birth of Friedrich von Schiller, German poet, dramatist and literary theorist"
• event
  • 1674
  • Treaty of Westminster – Netherlands cedes New Netherlands (on the eastern coast of North America) to Britain
  • 1871
  • Henry Morton Stanley finds Dr David Livingstone in Africa (in Ujiji near Lake Tanganyika)
  • 1928
  • Hirohito was crowned Emperor of Japan .
  • 1958
  • The Hope Diamond was donated to the Smithsonian Institution by American diamond merchant Harry Winston.
  • 1958
  • Donald Campbell breaks water speed record
  • 1969
  • The childrens TV show Sesame Street made its debut in the USA
  • 1983
  • Microsoft announced its forthcoming new graphical operating system Windows 1.0 (Note: due to delays it didn’t go on sale until 2 years later).
  • 1997
  • Great Britain
  • British nanny Louise Woodward was freed from jail in the USA after her conviction for murdering a baby was reduced to involuntary manslaughter more
• Death
  • 1808
  • "Death of Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, Irish-born British soldier, twice Governor of Quebec."
  • 1909
  • "Death of Renée Vivien, British-born French poet"
  • 1982
  • Russian Federation
  • "Death of Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader"