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Today is Tuesday, Nov. 10, the 314th day of 2015. There are 51 days left in the year.

On this date:

In 1775, the U.S. 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.

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In 1925, actor Richard Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in Pontrhydyfen, Wales.

In 1938, Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” on her CBS radio program. Turkish statesman Mustafa Kemal Ataturk died in Istanbul at age 57.

In 1942, Winston Churchill delivered a speech in London in which he said, “I have not become the King’s First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.”

In 1990, the movie comedy “Home Alone,” starring Macaulay Culkin, premiered in Chicago.


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