TODAY IN HISTORY

On Nov. 10, 1766, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, had its beginnings as William Franklin, the Royal Governor of New Jersey, signed a charter establishing Queen’s College in New Brunswick.

In 1775, the U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress.

In 1919, the American Legion opened its first national convention in Minneapolis.

In 1928, Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of Japan.

In 1938, Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin’s “God

Bless America” on her CBS radio program.

In 1944, during World War II, the ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded while moored at the Man us Naval Base in the Admiralty Islands in the South Pacific, leaving 45 confirmed dead and 327missing and presumed dead.

In 1951, customer-dialed long-distance telephone service began as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, New Jersey, called Alameda, California, Mayor Frank Osborne without operator assistance.

In 1975, the U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution equating Zionism with racism.

In1982, the newly finished Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to its first visitors in Washington, D.C.

In 2009, President Barack Obama visited Fort Hood, Texas, where he saluted the 13 Americans killed in a shooting rampage.

In 2017, facing allegations of sexual misconduct, comedian Louis C.K. said the harassment claims by five women thatwere detailed in a New York Times report “are true,” and he expressed remorse for using his influence “irresponsibly.”

In 2018, President Donald Trump, in France to commemorate the 100 th anniversary of the end of World War I, canceled a visit to a cemetery east of Paris where Americans killed in that war are buried; rainy weather had grounded the presidential helicopter. Also: Authorities in Northern California said 14 additional bodies had been found in the ruins from a fire that virtually destroyed the town of Paradise.