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The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was a 729-foot (222 m) Great Lakes freighter that made headlines after sinking in Lake Superior in a massive storm on November 10, 1975, with near hurricane-force winds and 35-foot (11 m) waves. The Fitzgerald suddenly sank approximately 17 miles (27 km) from the entrance to Whitefish Bay, at a depth of 530 feet (160 m). Her crew of 29 perished without sending any distress signals, and no bodies were recovered; she is the largest boat to have sunk in the Great Lakes. The Fitzgerald carried taconite from mines near Duluth, Minnesota, to iron works in Detroit, Toledo and other ports. Many theories, books, studies and expeditions have examined the cause of the sinking. Her sinking is one of the most well-known disasters in the history of Great Lakes shipping and is the subject of Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 hit song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". (more...) Recently featured: Edward VII – Governor of Kentucky – Battle of Tippecanoe Archive – By email – More featured articles...
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Graham Spanier Pennsylvania State University president Graham Spanier (pictured) and head football coach Joe Paterno are fired in response to a child sexual abuse scandal. Russian Phobos sample return mission Fobos-Grunt and Chinese Mars orbiter Yinghuo-1 are launched from Baikonur. American boxer Joe Frazier dies at the age of 67. Russia commences commercial natural gas deliveries to Western Europe via the Nord Stream, the world's longest submerged pipeline. More than one hundred people are killed by floods and landslides in Colombia. Kenyan runner Geoffrey Mutai wins the New York City Marathon with a course record time. Wikinews – Recent deaths – More current events...
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November 10: Heroes' Day in Indonesia (1945) 1865 – Henry Wirz, the superintendent of the Confederacy's Andersonville Prison, was hanged after a controversial conviction, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes. 1945 – Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of the British officer Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby a few weeks prior, British forces began their retaliation by attacking Surabaya, Indonesia. 1958 – Merchant Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond (pictured), the "most famous diamond in the world", to the Smithsonian Institution. 2006 – Prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer Nadarajah Raviraj was assassinated in Colombo. 2007 – At the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, King Juan Carlos I of Spain asked President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez "¿Por qué no te callas?" after Chávez repeatedly interrupted a speech by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. More anniversaries: November 9 – November 10 – November 11 Archive – By email – List of historical anniversaries It is now November 10, 2011 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. He and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe were influential in the period known as Weimar Classicism. Together, they helped lead to a renaissance of drama in Germany and the Weimar Theater, which they co-founded, became the country's leading theater. This lithograph portrait is captioned "Friedrich von Schiller", in recognition of his 1802 elevation to the nobility by the Duke of Weimar (as indicated by the addition of the nobiliary particle "von" to his name).

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