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Nov. 10, 1864 – Confederate officer and future University of
Alabama president Josiah Gorgas was promoted to brigadier general.
Nov. 10, 1865 – Major Henry Wirz, the commandant of
Andersonville Prison (Camp Sumter), was executed by hanging for the brutality
and the mistreatment committed under his command. He was one of only three
American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes.
Nov. 10, 1871 - Explorer Henry Stanley found the missing
Scottish missionary David Livingstone in central Africa, and issued his famous
greeting: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
Nov. 10, 1928 - Knute Rockne made his famous "Win one
for the Gipper" pep talk during halftime of a tied game between Notre Dame
and Army.
Nov. 10, 1940 - The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia
Eagles played a penalty free NFL game.
Nov. 10, 1953 – The Virginia Cavalier Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution placed a historical marker at Fort Morgan
in memory of Welsh explorer Prince Madoc, who supposedly landed in Mobile Bay
in 1170.
Nov. 10, 1957 - 102,368 people attended the San Francisco
49ers and Los Angeles Rams game. The crowd was the largest regular-season crowd
in NFL history.
Nov. 10, 1960 – Writer Neil
Gaiman was born in Portchester, England.
Nov. 10, 1963 - Don Meredith of the Dallas Cowboys passed
for 460 yards and three touchdowns in a 31-24 loss to the San Francisco 49ers.
Nov. 10, 1964 - The Atlanta Braves signed a 25-year lease to
play in the new Atlanta stadium.
Nov. 10, 1972 - Southern Airways Flight 49
was hijacked on a flight from Birmingham to Montgomery. Three armed
men wanted by Detroit police demanded a $10 million ransom while diverting the
plane from one airport to another in the United States, Canada, and Cuba, where
the ordeal ended thirty hours after it began. At one point, the hijakers
threatened to crash the plane into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory. After two days, the plane landed in Havana, Cuba, where
the hijakers were jailed by Fidel Castro. The hijacking resulted in heightened
security measures at American airports, including required use of metal
detectors.
Nov. 10, 1975 - The 729-foot freighter SS Edmund
Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling ship, and its crew of 29 sank and vanished during
a storm in Lake Superior.
Nov. 10, 1975 - The Kansas City Royals released Harmon
Killebrew. He ended his 22-year career with 573 home runs.
Nov. 10, 1984 - The University of Maryland’s backup
quarterback Frank Reich threw six touchdown passes against the University of
Miami in the second half of the Orange Bowl. The Terrapins, who had been losing
31-0 at the half, ended up winning the game 42-40.
Nov. 10, 1986 – Three days after the death of Conecuh County
Commission Chairman David L. Burt, the commission voted unanimously to appoint
his widow, Katie Sue Burt, to fill the rest of his unexpired term in office.
Nov. 10, 1991 - Bernie Kosar ended his NFL record streak of
308 passes without an interception.
Nov. 10, 1996 - Dan Marino of the Miami Dolphins became the
first quarterback in NFL history to pass for more than 50,000 yards.
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