Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Today is Nov. 10. It was on this date in 1775 that the United States Marine Corps was formed by order of the Continental Congress. Advertisement Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev died on this day in 1982 after 18 years in power. He was 75. Brezhnev was succeeded by former KGB chief Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. Having begun his search eight months earlier for Scottish missionary David Livingstone, missing for 2 years at that point, journalist Henry Stanley found him in a small African village on this date in 1871. Stanley's remark -- "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" -- has since become one of history's favorite phrases. It was on this date in 1917 that 41 women from 15 states were arrested outside the White House for suffragette demonstrations. American women won the right to vote three years later. The ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald broke in two and sank during a storm on Lake Superior on this date in 1975, killing all 29 crew members aboard. It was the worst Great Lakes ship disaster of the decade. A year later, Gordon Lightfoot had a hit single with "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." Advertisement And the long-running children's show "Sesame Street" premiered on PBS on this date in 1969. The show, which features human cast members and Jim Henson puppets, educates children while having fun. We now return you to the present, already in progress.
