Today in History for 10th November 2016:
Historical Events
1567 – Battle at St-Denis: French government army vs Huguenots
1847 – The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
1975 – Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald and crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior
1977 – Amsterdam: Red Army Faction terrorists Gert Schneider/Christof Wackernagel arrested
1981 – “Oh, Brother!” opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 3 performances
2012 – 20 Syrian troops are killed by suicide bombings in Daara
Famous Birthdays
1810 – George Jennings English sanitary engineer (d. 1882)
1893 – John P. Marquand, American writer (d. 1960)
1933 – Mack Rice, musician and songwriter (Mustang Sally), born in Clarksdale, Mississippi (d. 2016)
1971 – Heather Williams, Miss USA-Oregon (1997)
1982 – Clayton Fortune, English footballer
1984 – Kendrick Perkins, American basketball player
Famous Deaths
1848 – Christian VIII of Denmark, King of Denmark (b. 1786)
1968 – Gerald Mohr, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54
1972 – Charlie Hallows, English cricketer who scored 1000 runs in a single month in May 1928, dies at 77
1990 – Lisa Kirk, US Broadway-singer, dies
1995 – Boty Goodwin, British artist, dies at 29
2006 – Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)