Ephemeris, 10 November

It happened one 10 November

1942 : Germany invaded the South of France On November 10, 1942, following the Allied landings in North Africa, German forces invaded the part of France still led by the Vichy government in order to have full access to the ports of the Mediterranean.
1964 : The U.S. defense secretary announced that the U.S. will not send troops to Vietnam On November 10, 1964, the Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara said that the U.S. has no intention of sending troops to Vietnam. In 1969, 500,000 American soldiers were stationed in Vietnam.
1995 : Ken Saro-Wiwa is executed On November 10, 1995, Nigerian writer and activist for human rights Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed by the military government of his country, despite an international campaign to support him.
2007 : Why don't you just shut up? On November 10, 2007, during the Spanish-American summit in Santiago, Chile, while the speech of Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero was constantly interrupted by Hugo Chavez, King Juan Carlos told Venezuelan President a phrase that became cult in the Hispanic countries but caused some problems in relations between Spain and some Latin American countries: ¿Por que no te callas? (Why don't you just shut up?).

Arthur Rimbaud
I dread the winter because it's the season of comfort!

Martin Luther, German theologist (1483)
Ninon de l'Enclos, French writer (1620)
François Couperin, French composer (1668)
Friedrich Schiller, German writer (1759)
Andrei Tupolev, Soviet aviation pioneer (1888)
Claude Rains, English actor (1889)
Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (1918)
François Périer, French actor (1919)
Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian inventor (AK-47) (1919)
Jennifer Holt, American actress (1920)
Maurice Clavel, French writer (1920)
Richard Burton, Welsh actor (1925)
Ennio Morricone, Italian composer (1928)
Roy Scheider, American actor (1932)
Ronald Evans, American astronaut (1933)
Claude Serre, French cartoonist (1938)
Tim Rice, English lyricist (1944)
Bachir Gemayel, Libanese politician (1947)
Jack Scalia, American actor (1950)
Bruno Peyron, French navigator (1955)
Roland Emmerich, German director (1955)
Vanessa Angel, English actress (1966)
Ellen Pompeo, American actress (1969)
Warren G, American rapper (1970)
Brittany Murphy, American actress (1977)
Drew McConnell, Irish musician (Babyshambles) (1978)
Ilias Iliadis, Greek judoka (1986)
Josh Peck, American actor (1986)

Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (1891)
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkish politician (1938)
Abel Gance, French director (1981)
Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1982)
Chuck Connors, American actor (1992)
Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician (2000)
Jack Palance, American actor (2006)
Laraine Day, American actress (2007)
Dino De Laurentiis, Italian producer (2010)