Today in History, 11/10

1775: The United States Marine Corps is founded.
1847: The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.1865: Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
1871: Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1889: Claude Rains is born.

1891: Carl Stalling is born. He did a lot of the iconic music for the classic Warner Brothers cartoons.

1924: Russell Johnson is born. He is best known as the Professor on Gilligan's Island.1925: Richard Burton is born.1924: Dion O'Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio's gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.
1928: Playing against Army at Yankee Stadium, Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne gives what is considered the greatest locker room speeches of all time by saying "Win one for the Gipper." The Fighting Irish would win the game 12-6.
1932: Roy Scheider is born.

1938: Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on network radio.

1940: Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.
1948: Vincent Schiavelli is born.1951: Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, N.J., calls his counterpart in Alameda, Calif.
1954: President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery.1958: The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.1958: George Lowe is born. He provided the voice of Space Ghost on Space Ghost: Coast to Coast.

1969: Sesame Street debuts on PBS.

1975: The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.

1982: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens in Washington, DC.Today in History elements mostly cribbed from The History Channel, Wikipedia, The New York Times, The Jewish World Review, The Writer's Almanac and anything else I can dig up.