10 November 1787

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.

A skirmish occurred between South Korean and North Korean naval ships off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.

Nadarajah Raviraj, a prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer, was assassinated in Colombo.

Writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People were executed by the Nigerian military regime led by Sani Abacha.

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.

SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, claiming all 29 of her crew's lives.

The children's television series Sesame Street premiered in the United States.

Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby on 30 October, British forces retaliated by attacking Surabaya (present-day logo depicted).

Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas led a coup against his own constitutional government, establishing the dictatorial Estado Novo regime.

Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley (pictured) located missing missionary and explorer David Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania.

Henry Wirz, the Confederate superintendent of Andersonville Prison, was hanged after a controversial conviction, becoming the only American Civil War officer executed for war crimes.

At the culmination of a Swedish civil war, supporters of the deposed King Sigismund III Vasa were publicly executed in the Åbo Bloodbath.

Fourth Crusade: The Siege of Zara, the first attack on a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders, began in present-day Zadar, Croatia.

Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a ceasefire agreement, ending the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, and prompting protests in Armenia.

President of Bolivia Evo Morales and several of his government resign after 19 days of civil protests and a recommendation from the military.

Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.

Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.

Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.

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.

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.

World Anti-Doping Agency is formed in Lausanne.

WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).

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.

Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.