Today is Thursday, November 10, the 315th day of 2016. There are 51 days left in the year.
1674 — Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English
1775 — U.S. Marine Corps established by Congress
1801 — Kentucky outlaws dueling
1808 — Osage Treaty signed
1836 — Louis Napoleon banished to America
1864 — Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico
1871 — Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa
1891 — First Woman’s Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
1898 — Race riot in Wilmington NC (8 blacks killed)
1917 — 41 suffragists are arrested in front of the White House
1918 — Independence of Poland proclaimed by Jozef Pilsudski
1919 — First observance of National Book Week
1919 — American Legion’s 1st national convention (Minneapolis)
1926 —Vincent Massey becomes first Canadian minister to U.S.
1928 — Hirohito enthroned as Emperor of Japan