November 10: Facts & Historical Events On This Day

Colombia began a campaign to sterilize Pablo Escobar’s wild hippos.

Infamous cartel leader Pablo Escobar smuggled four hippos into the country back in the 1980s. Following his demise in 1993, the hippos were left to nature. Without any natural predators, their population grew to as many as 170, and they became an invasive species.

Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev established November 10th as Victory Day.

Victory Day celebrates the taking of Nagorno-Karabakh, a region Azerbaijan and Armenia have long disputed. Azerbaijan claimed the territory after a bloody 45-day conflict. A ceasefire was only agreed upon with the assistance of Russian peacekeeping forces.

Iran claimed to have found over 50 billion barrels of oil in the country’s Khuzestan province.

According to President Hassan Rouhani, the area covered 1,490 square miles and was 262 feet deep.

Bruno Mars released his “Uptown Funk” single.

It won the Billboard 2015 and Grammy 2016 Song of the Year, along with the Grammy 2016 Record Of The Year.

Seventeen soldiers lost their lives in a helicopter crash during bad weather in Turkey.

The disaster happened in the Pervari District, where the helicopter became surrounded by thick fog and crashed into a mountain.

NASA declared the conclusion of the Phoenix mission after contact was lost with the Phoenix lander.

The uncrewed space probe landed on Mars on May 25, 2008, with a mission to study the history of water on Mars and determine the planet's overall habitability. Despite being concluded so soon after commencing, the $420 million mission was declared a success, as the lander managed to complete all its planned projects by August.

The musical comedy “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” was first performed at the Minskoff Theatre, New York City, US.

American Christmas comedy “Home Alone” with Macaulay Culkin premiered in Chicago, US.

The movie is an all-time classic and reached $476.7 million at the box office! The franchise continued in 1992 with "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York."

The US Federal Government shut down for three days.

This was because president Ronald Reagan and the Democratic party had disagreements on funding more education and less on defense and foreign aid.

The International Money Fund loaned Mexico $3.8 billion to prevent its insolvency.

The Soviet Union’s Luna 17 uncrewed space mission launched.

Luna 17 landed on the moon's surface on November 15 and deployed Lunokhod 1, the first robotic rover to explore the Moon.

41 Suffragists were arrested at the White House, Washington, D.C.

Brave women from across the United States left the National Woman's Party's headquarters at Cameron House, Washington, D.C, and headed to the White House to protest for the right to vote. Forty-one women were arrested and given prison sentences as a consequence.

German engineer Gottlieb Daimler unveiled the world’s first motorcycle, referred to as the Daimler Reitwagen.

The Festival of Reason was held at Notre Dame, Paris.

The Festival of Reason was part of France's dechristianization, an attempt to banish Christianity. The Festival of Reason ordered that all Christian Churches be transformed into Temples of Reason. On this day across the country, altars were dismantled, and the churches were transformed. This was a new religious concept drawn up by the French government called the Cult of Reason, and this was a catalyst for the French revolution, as Christians had their religious beliefs and places of worship taken from them.

The United States Marine Corps was founded when two battalions of Continental Marines came together in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.