November 10Caroll Spinney with his Oscar the Grouch puppet1599 At the culmination of a Swedish civil war, supporters of the deposed King SigismundIII Vasa were publicly executed in the bo Bloodbath.1969 The children's television series Sesame Street (puppeteer pictured) premiered in the United States.1972 Three men hijacked Southern Airways Flight49 and threatened to crash it into Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the U.S. state of Tennessee.2006 Nadarajah Raviraj, a prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer, was assassinated in Colombo.2009 A skirmish occurred between South Korean and North Korean naval ships off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.Afzal Khan (d.1659)Scipione Piattoli (b.1749)Andrs Manuel del Ro (b.1764)Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu (b.1887)More anniversaries: November 9November 10November 11ArchiveBy emailList of days of the yearAbout