A birthday on the globe
10 November on the globe: what happened in the world on this day, and who was born
For 10 November, the English Wikipedia lists 57 events and 294 births. 37 of the events stand at their places as rays of light; seven more are dashed circles, where the sentence links only to a country or a sea. The taller the ray, the longer ago it happened. The people born that day come further down, as blue points.
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The Earth on 10 November
The picture on the globe was assembled by NASA from satellite photographs taken in November 2004: the snow, the ice and the green are those of the month.
On 10 November the Sun passes straight overhead at noon along the parallel of 17.1° south. In London, the day lasts about 9 hours 10 minutes.
Beyond 73° south the Sun no longer sets; beyond 73° north it no longer rises.
The line between day and night is tilted on the globe exactly as on this day of the year. On the dark side you can see the lights of towns.
Europe · Armistice of 11 November 1918
1918
The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
On the map: the coordinates Wikidata gives for the article “Armistice of 11 November 1918”.
Europe · Osimo
1975
Treaty of Osimo between Yugoslavia and Italy
On the map: Osimo.
Europe · Fall of the Berlin Wall
1989
Germans begin to tear down the Berlin Wall.
On the map: the coordinates Wikidata gives for the article “Fall of the Berlin Wall”.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish.
Latin America · Santiago
2007
At the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, King Juan Carlos I of Spain asked Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez "Why don't you shut up?" after Chávez repeatedly interrupted a speech by Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
On the map: Santiago.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish.
North America · Philadelphia
1775
The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
On the map: Philadelphia.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Chinese.
North America · World Anti-Doping Agency
1999
World Anti-Doping Agency is formed in Lausanne.
On the map: World Anti-Doping Agency.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish.
North America · National Museum of the Marine Corps
2006
The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush, who announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor.
On the map: National Museum of the Marine Corps.
10 November
What the other Wikipedias remember#
For these years the English list has nothing on this day. The events below come from the same day’s lists on Wikipedia in Spanish and Chinese and were translated for this page.
From Wikipedia in Spanish · Saint Petersburg
1862
In Saint Petersburg (Russia), Giuseppe Verdi's opera La forza del destino premieres.
On the map: Saint Petersburg.
Translated from the list on Wikipedia in Spanish.
From Wikipedia in Chinese · Kyoto
1928
After the death of the Taisho Emperor of Japan, the 124th emperor, the Showa Emperor, holds his enthronement ceremony at the Kyoto Imperial Palace in Kyoto.
On the map: Kyoto.
Translated from the list on Wikipedia in Chinese.
From Wikipedia in Chinese · Jakarta
1963
At the initiative of Indonesian president Sukarno, Indonesia and the People's Republic of China hold the Games of the New Emerging Forces in Jakarta.
On the map: Jakarta.
Translated from the list on Wikipedia in Chinese.
10 November
Born on 10 November#
The English Wikipedia lists 294 births for this day. The blue points are the birthplaces of 60 of these people: those written about in the most Wikipedia editions, where Wikidata gives a place of birth.
Born on 10 November
1759
Friedrich Schiller, German poet and playwright (died 1805)
Place of birth: Marbach am Neckar.
Born on 10 November
1928
Ennio Morricone, Italian trumpet player, composer, and conductor (died 2020)
Place of birth: Rome.
Born on 10 November
1925
Richard Burton, Welsh actor and singer (died 1984)
Place of birth: Pontrhydyfen.
Born on 10 November
1697
William Hogarth, English painter, illustrator, and critic (died 1764)
Place of birth: London.
Born on 10 November
1728
Oliver Goldsmith, Irish-English author, poet, and playwright (died 1774)
Place of birth: Elphin.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1960
Neil Gaiman, English author, illustrator, and screenwriter
Place of birth: Portchester.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1989
Taron Egerton, Welsh actor
Place of birth: Birkenhead.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1879
Patrick Pearse, Irish lawyer, poet, teacher, and insurrectionist; executed for his role in the Easter Rising (died 1916)
Place of birth: Dublin.
10 November
Number one in the charts that week
At the cinema
An animal recorded that day
The record can be seen in GBIF, which brings together wildlife records from around the world.
All your birthdays
The weather that day
Data: Met Office Hadley Centre (HadCET); NOAA (GHCN-Daily, Mauna Loa).
Above the Earth
Sources: Jonathan McDowell, GCAT (launches); GFZ Potsdam (Kp index). Days are counted in Universal Time.
Football that day
International matches played that day:
Source: the “International football results” dataset kept by Mart Jürisoo (CC0).
Also that day
The earthquake’s page at the USGS
Source: the USGS catalogue. The day is counted in Universal Time (UTC).
In those days
Make a link for someone
Type the name, pick the day and the year of birth. The link opens straight on their day, with their name in the greeting.
The link carries the name, date and place typed here; anyone who gets it can see them.
Put another birthday beside it
Your mother’s, your child’s, a friend’s: the two days appear side by side.
Below: 10 November through the years.
The whole globe of the day
Drag the globe to turn it. Touch a ray or a point to read what happened there.
Everything Wikipedia lists for 10 November
The list is the English Wikipedia’s, in its own wording, as it stood in October 2026. 13 events have no place on the map: the sentence links to no place with coordinates, only to places too wide to mark, or to several countries.
- 474
Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
Asia · Byzantine EmpireWikipedia: Leo II - 937
Ten Kingdoms: Li Bian usurps the throne and deposes Emperor Yang Pu. The Wu State is replaced by Li (now called "Xu Zhigao"), who becomes the first ruler of Southern Tang.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period - 1202
Fourth Crusade: Despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia).
Europe · Siege of ZaraWikipedia: Fourth Crusade - 1293
Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking the throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Majapahit - 1444
Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Władysław III of Poland (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Władysław III of Varna) are defeated by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Władysław is killed.
Europe · Battle of VarnaWikipedia: Battle of Varna - 1599
Åbo Bloodbath: Fourteen noblemen who opposed Duke Charles are decapitated in the Old Great Square of Turku (Swedish: Åbo) for their involvement in the War against Sigismund.
Europe · Åbo BloodbathWikipedia: Åbo Bloodbath - 1659
Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh.
Asia · PratapgadWikipedia: Battle of Pratapgarh - 1674
Third Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherland to England.
Britain & Ireland · City of WestminsterWikipedia: Treaty of Westminster - 1702
English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War.
North America · Siege of St. AugustineWikipedia: Queen Anne's War - 1766
The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
North America · New JerseyWikipedia: New Jersey - 1775
The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
North America · PhiladelphiaWikipedia: United States Marine Corps - 1793
A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Cult of Reason - 1821
Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which led to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia.
Latin America · Los Santos DistrictWikipedia: Rufina Alfaro - 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 of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
Britain & Ireland · Stephen WhitneyWikipedia: Stephen Whitney - 1865
Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes.
North America · Andersonville, GeorgiaWikipedia: American Civil War - 1871
Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
Africa · UjijiWikipedia: Henry Morton Stanley - 1898
White supremacists seized power and massacred black Americans during the Wilmington massacre, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
North America · Wilmington massacreWikipedia: Wilmington massacre - 1910
The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
North America · Army and Navy AcademyWikipedia: Thomas A. Davis - 1918
The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
Europe · Armistice of 11 November 1918Wikipedia: Armistice of 11 November 1918 - 1937
Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas led a coup against his own constitutional government, establishing the dictatorial Estado Novo regime.
Latin America · Rio de JaneiroWikipedia: 1937 Brazilian coup d'état - 1939
Finnish author F. E. Sillanpää is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Nobel Prize in Literature - 1940
The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 more.
Europe · 1940 Vrancea earthquakeWikipedia: 1940 Vrancea earthquake - 1942
World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
Europe · Nazi GermanyWikipedia: Nazi Germany - 1944
The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
Oceania · Manus IslandWikipedia: USS Mount Hood - 1945
Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
Asia · Battle of SurabayaWikipedia: Battle of Surabaya - 1946
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Peruvian Andes mountains kills at least 1,400 people.
Latin America · 1946 Ancash earthquakeWikipedia: 1946 Ancash earthquake - 1951
With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
no place on the mapWikipedia: North American Numbering Plan - 1954
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia.
North America · Marine Corps War MemorialWikipedia: Marine Corps War Memorial - 1958
The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Hope Diamond - 1967
The Nauru Independence Act 1967 passed the Parliament of Australia, giving independence to the UN Trust Territory of Nauru with effect from 31 January 1968.
Oceania · NauruWikipedia: Nauru Independence Act 1967 - 1969
National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street.
no place on the mapWikipedia: National Educational Television - 1970
Luna 17: uncrewed space mission launched by the Soviet Union.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Luna 17 - 1970
Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Vietnam War - 1971
A Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount crashes into the Indian Ocean near Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, killing all 69 people on board.
- 1971
In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.
Asia · Phnom PenhWikipedia: Cambodia - 1972
Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
North America · Southern Airways Flight 49Wikipedia: Southern Airways Flight 49 - 1975
In Angola, the MPLA decisively defeated the FNLA in the Battle of Quifangondo, while Portugal simultaneously withdrew all its colonial and military personnel from Luanda.
Africa · Battle of QuifangondoWikipedia: Battle of Quifangondo - 1975
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is a form of racism.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Israeli–Palestinian conflict - 1975
The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
North America · SS Edmund FitzgeraldWikipedia: SS Edmund Fitzgerald - 1975
Treaty of Osimo between Yugoslavia and Italy
Europe · OsimoWikipedia: Treaty of Osimo - 1979
A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario.
North America · Windsor, OntarioWikipedia: 1979 Mississauga train derailment - 1983
Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Bill Gates - 1985
A Dassault Falcon 50 and a Piper PA-28 Cherokee collide in mid-air over Fairview, New Jersey, killing six people and injuring eight.
North America · 1985 Teterboro mid-air collisionWikipedia: 1985 Teterboro mid-air collision - 1989
Germans begin to tear down the Berlin Wall.
Europe · Fall of the Berlin WallWikipedia: Fall of the Berlin Wall - 1989
Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.
Europe · People's Republic of BulgariaWikipedia: People's Republic of Bulgaria - 1995
In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.
Africa · NigeriaWikipedia: Nigeria - 1997
WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
no place on the mapWikipedia: WorldCom - 1999
World Anti-Doping Agency is formed in Lausanne.
North America · World Anti-Doping AgencyWikipedia: World Anti-Doping Agency - 2002
Veteran's Day Weekend Tornado Outbreak: A tornado outbreak stretching from Northern Ohio to the Gulf Coast, one of the largest outbreaks recorded in November.
North America · OhioWikipedia: 2002 Veterans Day weekend tornado outbreak - 2006
Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.
Asia · ColomboWikipedia: Sri Lankan Tamils - 2006
The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush, who announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor.
North America · National Museum of the Marine CorpsWikipedia: National Museum of the Marine Corps - 2007
At the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, King Juan Carlos I of Spain asked Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez "Why don't you shut up?" after Chávez repeatedly interrupted a speech by Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
Latin America · SantiagoWikipedia: Ibero-American Summit - 2008
Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Mars - 2009
Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.
Asia · Daecheong incidentWikipedia: Daecheong incident - 2019
President of Bolivia Evo Morales and several of his government resign after 19 days of civil protests and a recommendation from the military.
Latin America · SucreWikipedia: 2019 Bolivian political crisis - 2020
Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a ceasefire agreement, ending the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, and prompting protests in Armenia.
Asia · 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreementWikipedia: 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement - 2020
The British government announced that it had removed the last land mine from the Falkland Islands, laid by Argentine forces during the 1982 Falklands War.
Latin America · Falklands WarWikipedia: Falklands War
What the other Wikipedias remember
For these years the English list has nothing on this day. The events below come from the same day’s lists on Wikipedia in Spanish and Chinese and were translated for this page.
- 1862
In Saint Petersburg (Russia), Giuseppe Verdi's opera La forza del destino premieres.
- 1928
After the death of the Taisho Emperor of Japan, the 124th emperor, the Showa Emperor, holds his enthronement ceremony at the Kyoto Imperial Palace in Kyoto.
- 1963
At the initiative of Indonesian president Sukarno, Indonesia and the People's Republic of China hold the Games of the New Emerging Forces in Jakarta.
Who was born on 10 November
In order of how many Wikipedia editions have an article about each. The first 60 of 294 are shown.
- 1483
Martin Luther, German monk and priest, leader of the Protestant Reformation (died 1546)
EislebenWikipedia: Martin Luther - 1759
Friedrich Schiller, German poet and playwright (died 1805)
Marbach am NeckarWikipedia: Friedrich Schiller - 1919
Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian general and engineer, designed the AK-47 (died 2013)
- 1928
Ennio Morricone, Italian trumpet player, composer, and conductor (died 2020)
- 1925
Richard Burton, Welsh actor and singer (died 1984)
PontrhydyfenWikipedia: Richard Burton - 1697
William Hogarth, English painter, illustrator, and critic (died 1764)
- 1728
Oliver Goldsmith, Irish-English author, poet, and playwright (died 1774)
- 1960
Neil Gaiman, English author, illustrator, and screenwriter
PortchesterWikipedia: Neil Gaiman - 1989
Taron Egerton, Welsh actor
BirkenheadWikipedia: Taron Egerton - 1977
Brittany Murphy, American actress and singer (died 2009)
AtlantaWikipedia: Brittany Murphy - 1969
Jens Lehmann, German footballer and actor
- 1433
Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (died 1477)
- 1955
Roland Emmerich, German director, producer, and screenwriter
StuttgartWikipedia: Roland Emmerich - 1999
João Félix, Portuguese footballer
- 1801
Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer and author (died 1872)
LuhanskWikipedia: Vladimir Dal - 1918
Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2007)
- 2002
Eduardo Camavinga, French footballer
CabindaWikipedia: Eduardo Camavinga - 1668
François Couperin, French organist and composer (died 1733)
- 1620
Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtier and author (died 1705)
- 1888
Andrei Tupolev, Russian engineer and designer, founded the Tupolev Design Bureau (died 1972)
Kimrsky DistrictWikipedia: Andrei Tupolev - 1944
Askar Akayev, Kyrgyzstani economist and politician, 1st President of Kyrgyzstan
KyzylbayrakWikipedia: Askar Akayev - 1985
Aleksandar Kolarov, Serbian footballer
- 1932
Roy Scheider, American actor (died 2008)
OrangeWikipedia: Roy Scheider - 1969
Ellen Pompeo, American actress
EverettWikipedia: Ellen Pompeo - 1868
Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist and educator, founded Shotokan (died 1957)
- 1999
Armand Duplantis, Swedish-American pole vaulter
LafayetteWikipedia: Armand Duplantis - 1879
Patrick Pearse, Irish lawyer, poet, teacher, and insurrectionist; executed for his role in the Easter Rising (died 1916)
- 1942
Robert F. Engle, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
SyracuseWikipedia: Robert F. Engle - 745
Musa al-Kadhim the seventh Shia Imam (died 799)
Al-AbwaWikipedia: Musa al-Kazim - 1965
Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish race car driver
NewtownardsWikipedia: Eddie Irvine - 1889
Claude Rains, English-American actor (died 1967)
ClaphamWikipedia: Claude Rains - 2000
Mackenzie Foy, American actress and model
Los AngelesWikipedia: Mackenzie Foy - 1992
Wilfried Zaha, Ivorian footballer
AbidjanWikipedia: Wilfried Zaha - 1887
Arnold Zweig, German author and activist (died 1968)
GłogówWikipedia: Arnold Zweig - 1994
Zoey Deutch, American actress
Los AngelesWikipedia: Zoey Deutch - 1999
Kiernan Shipka, American actress
ChicagoWikipedia: Kiernan Shipka - 1979
Anthony Réveillère, French footballer
Doué-la-FontaineWikipedia: Anthony Réveillère - 1992
Mattia Perin, Italian footballer
LatinaWikipedia: Mattia Perin - 1963
Hugh Bonneville, English actor
PaddingtonWikipedia: Hugh Bonneville - 1963
Mike Powell, American long jumper
PhiladelphiaWikipedia: Mike Powell - 1997
Federico Dimarco, Italian footballer
- 1919
Moise Tshombe, Congolese accountant and politician, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (died 1969)
MusumbaWikipedia: Moïse Tshombe - 1942
Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss lawyer and politician, 92nd President of the Swiss Confederation
HerisauWikipedia: Hans-Rudolf Merz - 1971
Walton Goggins, American actor and producer
BirminghamWikipedia: Walton Goggins - 1944
Tim Rice, English lyricist and author
St AlbansWikipedia: Tim Rice - 1969
Faustino Asprilla, Colombian footballer and coach
- 1983
Miranda Lambert, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
LongviewWikipedia: Miranda Lambert - 1884
Zofia Nałkowska, Polish author and playwright (died 1954)
- 1947
Greg Lake, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2016)
PooleWikipedia: Greg Lake - 1986
Samuel Wanjiru, Kenyan runner (died 2011)
NyahururuWikipedia: Samuel Wanjiru - 1994
Andre De Grasse, Canadian sprinter
ScarboroughWikipedia: Andre De Grasse - 1834
José Hernández, Argentinian journalist, poet, and politician (died 1886)
San Andrés de GilesWikipedia: José Hernández - 1933
Ronald Evans, American captain, engineer, and astronaut (died 1990)
St. FrancisWikipedia: Ronald Evans - 1947
Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese President and commander (died 1982)
AshrafiehWikipedia: Bachir Gemayel - 1971
Big Pun, American rapper (died 2000)
The BronxWikipedia: Big Pun - 1973
Patrik Berger, Czech footballer
PragueWikipedia: Patrik Berger - 1978
Diplo, American DJ, songwriter, and producer
TupeloWikipedia: Diplo - 1997
Daniel James, Welsh footballer
Kingston upon HullWikipedia: Daniel James - 1845
John Sparrow David Thompson, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1894)
- 1968
Tracy Morgan, American comedian and actor
The BronxWikipedia: Tracy Morgan
What is celebrated on 10 November
- Christian feast day: Adelin of Séez
- Christian feast day: Áed mac Bricc
- Christian feast day: Andrew Avellino
- Christian feast day: Baudolino
- Christian feast day: Elaeth
- Christian feast day: Grellan
- Christian feast day: Justus
- Christian feast day: Lübeck martyrs
- Christian feast day: Pope Leo I
- Christian feast day: Monitor
- Christian feast day: Theoctiste
- Christian feast day: Tryphena of Rome
- Christian feast day: November 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Cry of Independence Day (Panama)
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How the globe is made
Where the events come from
Each edition of this page uses the day’s list from Wikipedia in its own language: Romanian, English, Spanish, Chinese. The lists are written by volunteers and differ from one edition to the next; the text of each event is Wikipedia’s, with a link to the article. A row that appears twice in a list is shown once. The lists have not been checked event by event: they are Wikipedia’s, mistakes included.
For events before 1582, and for countries that moved to the Gregorian calendar later (Britain in 1752, Russia in 1918), the same day may be counted Old Style in one list and New Style in another.
The chapter “What the other Wikipedias remember” adds up to five events a day from the lists of the other three editions, only for years in which the English list has nothing on that day. They were translated for this page, passed the same filters as the tour, and are not counted among the events of the English list.
How an event gets onto the map
The place comes from Wikidata. If the sentence links to the article about the event itself (a battle, an opening, an earthquake), dated to the same year, the ray stands on its coordinates or on those of its location. Otherwise it stands on the first place the sentence links to: a town, a building, a mountain, an island. This second step can be wrong: sometimes the sentence only mentions the place. That is why the page says, under each event, which place the ray stands on.
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What the height means
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Where the tour stops
In each region the tour stops at up to three events (five in Britain and Ireland), chosen mainly by three things: whether Wikipedia’s editors put the event in the “On this day” box of their main page (the English, Spanish and Chinese editions), how many Wikipedia editions have an article about it, and how many of the four lists include it. Events whose sentence or article is about a war, an attack, a crime or a disaster are left out of the tour; they stay in the whole list, in Wikipedia’s wording. The filter is a list of words and a list of Wikidata types, so it can miss some.
The tour of births names the people with articles in the most editions and leaves aside those whom the list or Wikidata describes as rulers, politicians, commanders, leaders of movements or criminals; they stay in the list.
The Earth and the Sun
The daytime images are NASA’s Blue Marble Next Generation mosaics, one for each month of 2004; the night side is Black Marble 2016. The tilt of the line between day and night is computed for the day; the hour is chosen so that the place being read is in daylight. The latitude where the Sun stands overhead is the average of the four years of the leap cycle; in a given year it can differ by up to 0.4°.
The day you were born
The number ones come from the weekly lists on Wikipedia: Billboard for the United States (from 1940; the Hot 100 from August 1958), the UK Singles Chart (from November 1952), Los 40 Principales for Spain (from July 1966) and, for Romania, the Romanian Top 100 and Airplay 100 (2001–2021, with missing weeks). The page shows the chart of the week in which the day of birth falls, with its date; Billboard and the UK chart are dated at the end of their week. For Romania before 2001 and for China these sources have no weekly chart.
The films are those that reached cinemas in the United States up to ten days before or three days after that day (some of them in a few cinemas at first), from the English Wikipedia’s yearly lists (from 1968), in order of how many editions have an article about them. The events “in those days” are the ones on the neighbouring days’ lists that carry the year of birth, passed through the same filter as the tour.
The day of birth, year included
The Moon, the star sign and the constellation are worked out by the page itself, for noon Universal Time on the day. The lit part of the Moon is rounded and can differ by a few per cent from that at the hour of birth. The sign follows the usual zodiac of twelve equal parts starting at the March equinox; the constellation is the one the Sun actually stood in front of, by the borders set by the International Astronomical Union, and within a day of a border the page does not name it. When the Sun changes sign while it is that day anywhere on Earth, the page gives the moment of crossing, rounded to ten minutes and accurate to within about a quarter of an hour, and the clock time in a few cities, with the time zone and summer time of that year.
The year in the Chinese calendar is the one your device’s own calendar gives for the date, checked against the Hong Kong Observatory’s tables. “All your birthdays” uses the same sources as the rest of the chapter for the same day in every year since the birth: the temperature, well-known launches that took place on that very day, matches of the teams the edition follows, snow deeper than 10 cm and strong geomagnetic storms. The three things at the top and the four on the picture are chosen in a fixed order (the song, the animal, a full Moon, a well-known launch before an ordinary earthquake); on the picture you can change them.
When the link carries a year of birth, the page adds a few things about that exact day. The weather is the Met Office’s Central England temperature record and the readings from New York’s Central Park; the “usual high” is the average of the daily highs of 1961–1990 for that date, with two days either side. The carbon dioxide figure is the monthly mean at the Mauna Loa observatory, where measurements begin in March 1958.
The earthquake is the one with the largest magnitude in the USGS catalogue for that day, counted in Universal Time. Before the 1960s the catalogue has gaps even above magnitude 5.5, so in the older years many days have no earthquake. The page gives only the magnitude and the place: the country the epicentre falls in or, when the epicentre is at sea within 300 km of a coast, the nearest country; farther out, only the ocean.
The launches are those that reached orbit or left for the Moon and the planets, from Jonathan McDowell’s GCAT catalogue. If nothing left that day, the page shows the nearest launch within three days before or after, and says how many days away it was. The geomagnetic storm appears only when the Kp index reached at least 5 in one of the day’s eight three-hour intervals.
The animal comes from GBIF: an observation made by a person (the animal seen or heard, or its tracks), dated to that exact day, with coordinates and a CC0 or CC BY licence. Only a few hundred well-known species are searched (mammals, birds, turtles, butterflies); of those noted that day, mammals and species with articles in many Wikipedia editions come first; birds noted almost every day, and species used recently, wait their turn. Observations dated 1 January are left out, because records without a day are often filed there. An observation shows that the animal was recorded there, not how many animals there were.
The matches are those between national teams. Only matches of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, Canada and Australia are shown, along with those at the big final tournaments. The picture to send is drawn in the page from the day’s globe and the facts above, and stays on your device until you send it.
Sources
- Events, births and holidays: the day’s page on Wikipedia, text under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates, places of birth and the number of editions: Wikidata (CC0).
- The Earth by day: NASA Blue Marble Next Generation. The Earth by night: NASA Black Marble 2016.
- Borders and regions: Natural Earth.
- World population and births per year: UN World Population Prospects 2024.
- Charts and films: Wikipedia’s lists for Billboard, the UK Singles Chart, Los 40 Principales, Romanian Top 100, Airplay 100 and American films by year (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Weather: Met Office Hadley Centre, HadCET (Open Government Licence) and NOAA GHCN-Daily, New York Central Park. Carbon dioxide: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Mauna Loa.
- Earthquakes: the USGS catalogue. Launches: Jonathan McDowell, GCAT (CC BY). Kp index: GFZ Potsdam (CC BY 4.0). Matches: International football results, Mart Jürisoo (CC0).
- Animal observations: GBIF, with a link to each record; species names come from Wikidata.