On this day: November 10

November 10: Diwali (Hinduism, Sikhism and Jainism, 2015); Remembrance of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (09:05 EET/07:05 UTC, Turkey)

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

• 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.
• 1775 – The United States Marine Corps was founded as the Continental Marines by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War.
• 1940 – A magnitude 7.7 M_L earthquake struck the Vrancea region of Romania, the country's strongest earthquake in the 20th century.
• 1945 – Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of the British officer Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby a few weeks prior, British forces began their retaliation by attacking Surabaya, Indonesia.
• 1975 – The SS Edmund Fitzgerald (pictured), the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, sank in Lake Superior with the loss of 29 lives.

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