This day in history

Today is Friday, Nov. 10, the 314th day of 2023. There are 51 days left in the year.

Birthdays: Blues singer Bobby Rush is 89. Actor Albert Hall is 86. Country singer Donna Fargo is 82. Former senator Saxby Chambliss, a Republican from Georgia, is 80. Lyricist Tim Rice is 79. Movie director Roland Emmerich is 68. Actor Matt Craven is 67. Actor-comedian Sinbad is

67. Actor Mackenzie Phillips is

64. Author Neil Gaiman is 63. Actor-comedian Tommy Davidson is 60. Actor-comedian Tracy Morgan is 55. Actor Ellen Pompeo is 54. Rapper-producer Warren G is 53. Actor Walton Goggins is 52. Comedian-actor Chris Lilley is 49. Rapper Eve is

45. Actor Heather Matarazzo is

41. Country singer Miranda Lambert is 40. Actor Josh Peck is

37. Actor Zoey Deutch is 29. Actor Kiernan Shipka is 24.

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

►In 1871, journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley found Scottish missionary David Livingstone, who had not been heard from for years, near Lake Tanganyika in central Africa.

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

►In 1944, during World War II, the ammunition ship USS Mount Hood exploded while moored at the Manus Naval Base in the Admiralty Islands in the South Pacific, leaving 45 confirmed dead and 327 missing and presumed dead.

►In 1951, customer-dialed long-distance telephone service began as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, N.J., called Mayor Frank Osborne of Alameda, Calif., without operator help.

►In 1969, the children’s educational program “Sesame Street” made its debut on National Educational Television (later PBS).

►In 1975, the UN General Assembly approved a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the world body repealed the resolution in December 1991).

►In 1982, the newly finished Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to its first visitors in Washington, D.C., three days before its dedication.

►In 1997, Judge Hiller Zobel in Cambridge reduced Louise Woodward’s murder conviction to involuntary manslaughter and sentenced the English au pair to the 279 days she’d already served in the death of 8month-old Matthew Eappen.

►In 2017, facing allegations of sexual misconduct, comedian Louis C.K. said the harassment claims by five women that were detailed in a New York Times report were true, and he expressed remorse.