CHICKEN BUCKETS: TODAY IN HISTORY

Saturday, November 10, 2012

AP Highlight in History:
On Nov. 10, 1975, the ore-hauling ship Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm in Lake Superior. All 29 crew members died.

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On this date in:
1483	Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation, was born in Eisleben, Germany.
1775	The U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress.
1871	Journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley found missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone in central Africa and delivered his famous greeting: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1928	Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of Japan.
1938	Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on network radio.
1942	British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, discussing the recent victory over Rommel at El Alamein, Egypt, said "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
1951	Direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service began with a call between the mayors of Englewood, N.J., and Alameda, Calif.
1954	The U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, depicting the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, was dedicated in Arlington, Va.
1961	The satirical anti-war novel "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller was published.
1969	"Sesame Street" debuted on PBS.
1975	The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution equating Zionism with racism.
1982	Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died at age 75.
1997	A judge in Cambridge, Mass., reduced Louise Woodward's murder conviction to manslaughter and sentenced the English au pair to time served in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen.
1997	WorldCom Inc. and MCI Communications Corp. agreed to a $37 billion merger.
2001	The World Trade Organization approved China's membership.
2007	Author Norman Mailer died at age 84.
2009	John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks that killed 10 in the Washington, D.C. region, was executed.