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Sunday, 9 November 2014
On this day... November 10:
On this day...
November 10
:
Remembrance of
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
(09:05
EET
/07:05
UTC
, Turkey)
1202
– The first major action of the
Fourth Crusade
and the first attack against a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders, the
Siege of Zara
, began in
Zadar
, Croatia.
1871
– Journalist and explorer
Henry Morton Stanley
located missing missionary and explorer
David Livingstone
in
Ujiji
, near
Lake Tanganyika
in present-day Tanzania.
1940
– A magnitude
7.7
M
L
earthquake
struck
the
Vrancea
region of Romania, the country's strongest earthquake in the 20th century.
1958
– Merchant
Harry Winston
donated the
Hope Diamond
(pictured)
, the "most famous diamond in the world", to the
Smithsonian Institution
.
2006
– Prominent
Sri Lankan Tamil
politician and human rights lawyer
Nadarajah Raviraj
was assassinated in
Colombo
.
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