On This Day, November 10: The Marine Corps Is Founded in 1775, Sesame Street Premieres in 1969, and the Edmund Fitzgerald Sinks in 1975
On November 10, 1775, the forerunner of the United States Marine Corps was founded in Philadelphia, when the Continental Congress passed a resolution raising two battalions of Marines; Tun Tavern is regarded as the Corps' birthplace, and November 10 is celebrated each year as the Marine Corps birthday.
On November 10, 1969, the children's educational program Sesame Street premiered on the NET network in the United States; its mix of puppets and animation teaching letters and numbers became a global benchmark for children's television.
On November 10, 1871, journalist-explorer Henry Morton Stanley found the long-missing missionary-explorer David Livingstone at Ujiji in present-day Tanzania, greeting him with the famous words: Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
On November 10, 1975, the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a violent storm on Lake Superior, and all 29 crew members were lost. It remains one of the most famous shipwrecks in Great Lakes shipping history.
(Source: Historical records)
Source: Historical records
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