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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2007

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  • Published Nov 9, 2007 4:24 pm KST
  • Updated Nov 9, 2007 4:24 pm KST

Today is Saturday, November 10, the 314th day of 2007. There are 51 days left in the year.

461 _ St. Leo I ends his reign as Catholic pope

1544 _ Antwerps painter John Matsys banished

1836 _ Louis Napoleon banished to America

1918 _ German Emperor Wilhelm II flees to the Netherlands

1928 _ Hirohito ascended throne as emperor of Japan

1945 _ Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by U.S.

1950 _ Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner

1975 _ The U.N. General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism

1980 _ Poland acknowledges the Solidarity union

1982 _ IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankruptcy

1989 _ Germans begins demolishing the Berlin Wall