Year 1659
Shivaji Maharaj assassinated Afzal Khan at Pratapgad.
NOVEMBER 10
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10 November: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 10 November.
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Year 1698
East India Company bought Calcutta port from the local king. It was not more than a village at that time.
Year 1801
In order to defray the debt, Nawab Saadat Ali Khan surrendered Rohilkhand to the East India Company by the treaty of 10 November 1801.
Year 1848
Surendranath Banerji, popularly known as Rashtraguru, was born at Taltala, Calcutta. He passed his final ICS Examination in 1869 and joined in 1871, He was President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
Year 1885
Gottlieb Daimler introduced the world’s first motorcycle.
Year 1901
Formal inauguration of the new North-West Frontier Province created out of the Punjab.
Year 1909
Gandhiji replies to Tolstoy, sends his biography by Doke.
Year 1950
American writer William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Year 1958
Oil was discovered in an experimental well at Vedsar near Baroda in Gujarat.
Year 1960
First Nagpur session of Maharashtra State.
Year 1983
Bill Gates released Windows 1.0.
Year 1989
Foundation stone laid for the Ram Janambhoomi temple at Ayodhya.
Year 1990
Chandra Shekhar Singh sworn in as 8th Prime Minister of India. He remained in this office till June 21, 1991 Devilal was sworn in as the Dy. Prime Minister.
Year 1991
South Africa's first cricket One-day international since 1970 vs India.
Year 2000
R.M. Shankara and Rashmi Kumari lift men's and women's title in the World carrom championship in New Delhi.
Year 2001
Appointment of Dr. R. Chidambaram as the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Central Government.
Year 2006
Assassination of Tamil Nadu MP Nadaraja Raviraj in Colombo.
Year 2001
Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee addressed the United Nations, General Assembly.
Born 1483
Martin Luther, a German professor of theology, composer, priest, Augustinian monk, and a seminal figure in the Reformation.
Born 1810
George Jennings, inventor of the flush toilet.
Born 1848
Surendranath Banerjee, Indian academic and politician (d. 1925). He was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress. He passed his final ICS Examination in 1869 and joined in 1871, He was President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
Born 1851
Francis Balfour, a British naturalist who did basic research on animal taxonomy.
Born 1904
Kusumavati Deshpande, the great Marathi short story writer, and critic.
Born 1919
Mikhail Kalashnikov, invented the AK-47 rifle.
Born 1920
Dattopant Thengadi, founder of Swadeshi Jagran Manch, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh and Bharatiya Kamgar Sangh.
Born 1922
S. K. Raghunath Rao, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1960-67, was born in Karnataka.
Born 1925
Richard Burton, Welsh actor.
Born 1930
Riazuddin, a Pakistani theoretical physicist, specializing in high-energy physics and nuclear physics.
Born 1944
Askar Akayev, the first president of Kyrgyzstan.
Born 1952
Sunanda Balaraman, a well-known author from India.
Born 1960
Neil Gaiman, an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, nonfiction, audio theatre, and films.
Born 1964
Ashutosh Rana, Indian-Hindi film actor.
Born 1974
Ganesh Hegde, an Indian video director, and Bollywood choreographer.
Born 1997
Dhruv Pratap Singh, Indian cricketer
Died 1891
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud, a French poet.
Died 1938
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkey’s first president. He passed away at Istanbul.
Died 1968
Tukdoji Maharaj, modern social reformer, saint and poet, died in his ashram at Mozri in district Amravati.
Died 1982
Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Russia.
Died 1994
Dr. K. V. Putappa "Kuvempu", first Gyanpeet Awardee for literature and Kannad author, died at the age of 90 years.
Died 1996
Manik Verma, Indian singer.
Died 2003
Canaan Banana, Zimbabwe’s first president,.
Died 2007
Norman Mailer, an American novelist, journalist.
Died 2013
Vijaydan Detha, Indian author (b. 1926)