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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_10" title="November 10">November 10</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1599" title="1599">1599</a> – At the culmination of a Swedish civil war, supporters of the deposed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_III_Vasa" title="Sigismund III Vasa">Sigismund III Vasa</a> were publicly executed in what came to be known as the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85bo_Bloodbath" title="Åbo Bloodbath">Åbo Bloodbath</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1865" title="1865">1865</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wirz" title="Henry Wirz">Henry Wirz</a></b>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate</a> superintendent of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andersonville_Prison" title="Andersonville Prison">Andersonville Prison</a>, was hanged after a controversial conviction, becoming the only <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a> officer executed for war crimes.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1871" title="1871">1871</a> – Journalist and explorer <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morton_Stanley" title="Henry Morton Stanley">Henry Morton Stanley</a></b> located missing missionary and explorer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Livingstone" title="David Livingstone">David Livingstone</a> near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Tanganyika" title="Lake Tanganyika">Lake Tanganyika</a> in present-day Tanzania.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937" title="1937">1937</a> – Brazilian president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get%C3%BAlio_Vargas" title="Getúlio Vargas">Getúlio Vargas</a> led <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Brazilian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1937 Brazilian coup d'état">a coup</a></b> against his own constitutional government, establishing the dictatorial <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estado_Novo_(Brazil)" title="Estado Novo (Brazil)">Estado Novo</a> regime.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_National_Revolution" title="Indonesian National Revolution">Indonesian National Revolution</a>: Following the killing of Brigadier <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubertin_Walter_Sothern_Mallaby" title="Aubertin Walter Sothern Mallaby">A. W. S. Mallaby</a> on 30 October, British forces retaliated by <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Surabaya" title="Battle of Surabaya">attacking</a></b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surabaya" title="Surabaya">Surabaya</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_de_Forz,_8th_Countess_of_Devon" title="Isabel de Forz, 8th Countess of Devon">Isabel de Forz, 8th Countess of Devon</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1293); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scipione_Piattoli" title="Scipione Piattoli">Scipione Piattoli</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1749); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka%CA%BBimina%CA%BBauao" title="Kaʻiminaʻauao">Kaʻiminaʻauao</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1848); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricki-Lee_Coulter" title="Ricki-Lee Coulter">Ricki-Lee Coulter</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1985)</p>