Historical Events -  November 10

1659 : Shivaji Maharaj assassinated Afzal Khan at Pratapgad.

1698 : East India Company bought Calcutta port from the local king.

1801 : In order to defray the debt, Nawab Saadat Ali Khan surrendered Rohilkhand to the East India Company by the treaty of 10 November 1801.

1885 : Gottlieb Daimler introduced the world’s first motorcycle.

1950 : American writer William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

1958 : Oil was discovered in an experimental well at Vedsar near Baroda in Gujarat.

1990 : Chandrasekhar became the 8th Prime Minister of India.

1983 : Bill Gates released Windows 1.0.

2001 : Appointment of Dr. R. Chidambaram as the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Central Government.

2006 : Assassination of Tamil Nadu MP Nadaraja Raviraj in Colombo.

2001 : Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee addressed the United Nations, General Assembly.

 

Famous Birthdays   – November 10  

1483: Martin Luther, a German professor of theology, composer, priest, Augustinian monk, and a seminal figure in the Reformation.

1810: George Jennings, inventor of the flush toilet.

1848: Surendranath Banerjee, one of the founders of the Indian National Congress.

1851: Francis Balfour, a British naturalist who did basic research on animal taxonomy.

1904: Kusumavati Deshpande, the great Marathi short story writer, and critic.

1919: Mikhail Kalashnikov, invented the AK-47 rifle.

1920: Dattopant Thengadi, founder of Swadeshi Jagran Manch, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh and Bharatiya Kamgar Sangh.

1925: Richard Burton, Welsh actor.

1930: Riazuddin, a Pakistani theoretical physicist, specializing in high-energy physics and nuclear physics.

1944: Askar Akayev, the first president of Kyrgyzstan.

1952: Sunanda Balaraman, a well-known author from India.

1960: Neil Gaiman, an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, nonfiction, audio theatre, and films.

1964: Ashutosh Rana, Indian-Hindi film actor.

1974: Ganesh Hegde, an Indian video director, and Bollywood choreographer.

 

Death Anniversaries   – November 10

1891: Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud, a French poet.

1938: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkey’s first president.

1982: Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Russia.

1996: Manik Verma, Indian singer.

2003: Canaan Banana, Zimbabwe’s first president,.

2007: Norman Mailer, an American novelist, journalist.

2013: Vijaydan Detha, Indian writer.