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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_10" title="November 10">November 10</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Hossain" title="Noor Hossain">Noor Hossain Day</a></b> in Bangladesh (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987" title="1987">1987</a>)
</p><ul><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 <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vargas_Era#Third_Brazilian_Republic_(Estado_Novo)" title="Vargas Era">Estado Novo</a></i> 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> a few weeks earlier, 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>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969" title="1969">1969</a> – The children's television series <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street" title="Sesame Street">Sesame Street</a></b></i> premiered in the United States.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975" title="1975">1975</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald" title="SS Edmund Fitzgerald">SS <i>Edmund Fitzgerald</i></a></b> sank in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Superior" title="Lake Superior">Lake Superior</a> with the loss of 29 lives.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995" title="1995">1995</a> – Writer and environmental activist <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Saro-Wiwa" title="Ken Saro-Wiwa">Ken Saro-Wiwa</a></b> and eight others from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_the_Survival_of_the_Ogoni_People" title="Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People">Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People</a> were executed by the Nigerian military government.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%B0r%C3%B8%C3%B0r_%C3%93l%C3%A1fsson" title="Guðrøðr Óláfsson">Guðrøðr Óláfsson</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1187); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afzal_Khan_(general)" title="Afzal Khan (general)">Afzal Khan</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1659); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Woods" title="Leona Woods">Leona Woods</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1986)</p>