📜 This Day in History

November 10

• 1202Fourth Crusade: The Siege of Zara, the first attack on a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders, began in present-day Zadar, Croatia.
• 1871Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley located missing missionary and explorer David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania.
• 1940An earthquake registering 7.7 Mw struck the Vrancea region of Romania.
• 1975In Angola, the MPLA decisively defeated the FNLA in the Battle of Quifangondo, while Portugal simultaneously withdrew all its colonial and military personnel from Luanda.
• 2006Nadarajah Raviraj, a prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer, was assassinated in Colombo.
• 2020The British government announced that it had removed the last land mine from the Falkland Islands, laid by Argentine forces during the 1982 Falklands War.

Born on this day

• 1483Martin Luther, German monk and priest, leader of the Protestant Reformation (died 1546)
• 1759Friedrich Schiller, German poet and playwright (died 1805)
• 1919Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian general and engineer, designed the AK-47 (died 2013)
• 1928Ennio Morricone, Italian trumpet player, composer, and conductor (died 2020)