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On This Day (November 10): Your quick daily trip back in time.
Fatih Taskiran
November 10, 2025
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🌟 Editor's Note
Good morning — it’s Monday, November 10. Today, we’re exploring the Birth of the US Marine Corps, the world’s first motorcycle, and Sesame Street's debut, and much more — quick, sharp, and ready to ignite your curiosity!
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🚀 Time Machine
-1619 | René Descartes had a dream that inspired him to write "Meditations on First Philosophy." |
-1674 | The Dutch officially ceded New Netherland (New York) to the English. |
-1775 | During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress decided to create "two battalions of Marines" for the Continental Navy. |
-1885 | German engineer Gottlieb Daimler debuts the world's first motorcycle. |
-1903 | Mary Anderson of Alabama patented the windshield wiper. |
-1928 | Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" first appeared in the Vossische Zeitung. |
-1960 | D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" was released uncensored in the UK after Penguin Books was acquitted in an obscenity trial. |
-1969 | “Sesame Street,” the hit TV show that taught generations of kids how to count and read, premieres on PBS. |
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📸 Snapshot
Two men watch the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge from a high catwalk, 1883
🗨️ Final Words
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