^B{^#!16!10 November^N! Feast day of St Leo the Great, St Justus of Canterbury, St Aedh MacBrice, St Theoctista, and St Andrew Avellino.
^B{1775^B} The Continental Congress authorized the creation of the 'Continental Marines', now known as the US Marines. ^B{1862^B} The first performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera ^I{La Forza del Destino^I} was held in St Petersburg. ^B{1871^B} Henry Morton Stanley, who had been sent to track down missing explorer David Livingstone, met him at Ujiji, on Lake Taganyika. ^B{1938^B} Kristallnacht, or 'night of (broken) glass', took place when Nazis burned 267 synagogues and destroyed thousands of Jewish homes and businesses in Germany. ^B{1928^B} Hirohito was crowned Emperor of Japan, at the age of 27. ^B{1989^B} Bulldozers began demolishing the 28-year-old Berlin Wall, following the government's announcement that it would allow free travel between East and West Germany.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Martin Luther, German Protestant reformer, ^B{1483^B}; Franτois Couperin, French composer, ^B{1668^B}; William Hogarth, English painter and engraver, ^B{1697^B}; Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, German poet and dramatist, ^B{1759^B}; Jacob Epstein, British sculptor, ^B{1880^B}; Richard Burton, Welsh actor, ^B{1925^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Pope Leo I (the Great), 461^B}; Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, ^B{1891^B}; Mustapha Kemal Atatⁿrk, Turkish statesman, ^B{1938^B}; Dennis Wheatley, English novelist, ^B{1979^B}; Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet political leader, ^B{1982^B}; Gordon Richards, ^B{1986^B}.
