Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 10
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- 1865 - Henry Wirz, the superintendent of the Andersonville Prison, was hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
- 1871 - "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" – Henry Morton Stanley located missing missionary and explorer, David Livingstone (pictured) in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania.
- 1969 - Sesame Street debuted on the National Educational Television network in the United States.
- 1995 - Playwright 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 government.
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