It happened today – this day in history – November 10

1483: Birth of Martin Luther in Saxony.

1683: Birth of future King George II of Gt Britain and Ireland in Germany.

1697: Birth of artist William Hogarth in London.

1730: Dramatist Oliver Goldsmith is born in Ireland.

1793: France ends the forced worship of God.

1871: Henry Morton Stanley encounters David Livingstone at Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa, with the immortal words: “Dr Livingstone, I presume.”

1880: Birth of sculptor Jacob Epstein in New York.

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

1891: French poet Arthur Rimbaud dies of bone cancer aged 37.

1911: The Chinese Imperial army recaptures Nanking amid much bloodshed.

1917: The new Bolshevik government under Lenin suspends freedom of the press.

1918: Kaiser Wilhelm II flees to The Netherlands. On the same day, the Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe stating that on November 11, 1918 all fighting will cease on land, sea and in the air.

1920: George Bernard Shaw’s “Heartbreak House” premieres in New York.

1924: Dion O’Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio’s gang, sparking a bloody gang war in Chicago.

1931: Lionel Barrymore and Marie Dressler win the major acting Oscars at the 4^th Academy Awards. The western Cimarron wins best picture.

1938: Pearl Buck wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. On the same day, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Republic of Turkey, dies of cirrhosis of the liver aged 57.

1940: Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI – his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.

1950: William Faulkner wins the Nobel Prize for Literature.

1952: Trygve Lie resigns as 1st Secretary General of the United Nations.

1960: The uncensored version of D H Lawrence’s 1928 novel “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” finally goes on sale in the UK.

1966: Jack Lynch becomes Irish Taoiseach.

1975: The ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald with crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior. On the same day, PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses the UN in New York.

1977: Red Army Faction terrorists Gert Schneider and Christof Wackernagel are arrested in Amsterdam.

1978: Larry Holmes KOs Alfredo Evangelist in Round 7 for the heavyweight boxing title.

1980: Michael Foot defeats Denis Healey to become leader of the Labour Party.

1982: Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev dies from a heart attack aged 75.

1983: Marvin Hagler retains the world middleweight boxing title with a 15-round unanimous points decision over Roberto Duran at Ceasar’s Palace, Las Vegas.

1986: Jockey Sir Gordon Richards died aged 82.

1989: Germans begin demolishing the Berlin Wall.

1995: Writer and human rights activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, is executed in Nigeria despite worldwide pleas for clemency.

1996: Death of Daily Mirror agony aunt Marjorie Proops, aged 85.

1997: British au pair Louise Woodward is freed from prison in the US after her conviction for the murder of eight-month old Matthew Eappen is reduced to manslaughter. The sentenced is reduced to time served.

2001: Author Ken Kesey dies aged 66.

2006: Actor Jack Palance (Vladimir Palahniuk), dies aged 87.

2007: Death of novelist Norman Mailer aged 84.

2008: South African singer and civil rights activist Miriam Makeba dies aged 76.

2013: Singles chart:

1. Look Right Through – Storm Queen
2. The Monster – Eminem
3. Move – Little Mix
4. Royals – Lorde
5. Story Of My Life – One Direction
6. Counting Stars – One Republic
7. Work Bitch – Britney Spears
8. Children Of The Sun – Tinie Pempah ft John Martin
9. Eat Sleep Rave Repeat – Fatboy Slim/Rivastarr/Beardyman
10. You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You – James Arthur

2014: Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan was arrested following an alleged air rage incident.

2015: Songwriter/composer, record producer, Alan Toussaint, died aged 77 while on tour in Spain. On the same day, Portugal’s minority government is toppled by left-wing opposition two weeks after coming to power.

2017: Comedian Louis C.K. Admits stories of sexual misconduct circulating about him are true.

Album chart:

1. The Thrill Of It All – Sam Smith
2. A Love So Beautiful – Roy Orbison/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
3. Together Again – Michael Ball and Alfie Boe
4. Divide – Ed Sheeran
5. Beautiful Trauma – Pink
6. Nat King Cole & Me – Gregory Porter
7. Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1 – George Michael
8. As You Were – Liam Gallagher
9. Sheridan – Sheridan Smith
10. Scream Above The Sounds – Stereophonics

BIRTHDAYS: Tim Rice, lyricist, 76; Neil Gaiman, writer, 60; Hugh Bonneville, actor, 57; Eddie Irvine, motor racer, 55; Tracy Morgan, actor/comedian, 52; Ellen Pompeo, actress, 51; Jens Lehmann, goalkeeper, 51; Jacqui Abbott, singer, 47; Miranda Lambert, country singer, 37; Taron Egerton, actor, 31.