Today is Thursday, Nov. 10, the 314th day of 2011. There are 51 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight:
On Nov. 10, 1961, “Catch-22” by Joseph Heller was first published by Simon &Schuster.
On this date:
In 1775, the U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress.
In 1938, Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” on her CBS radio program.
In 1975, the ore-hauling ship SS Edmund Fitzgerald and its crew of 29 mysteriously sank during a storm in Lake Superior with the loss of all on board.
In 1982, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died at age 75.
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