10 November - In the past

1792 - The White House: Construction begins by placing of the cornerstone.
President Washington traveled to the site of the new federal city on July 16, 1792 to make his judgment. His review is recorded as being brief and he quickly selected the submission of James Hoban, an Irishman living in Charlestown, South Carolina.

1970 - Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 launched.
Lunokhod 1 (moon walker in Russian) was the first of two unmanned lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of its Lunokhod program. The spacecraft which carried Lunokhod 1 was named Luna 17. Lunokhod was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world.

1972 - Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham is hijacked and
At one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.

1997 - WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).

Births
1947 - Glen Buxton, American musician (Alice Cooper) (d. 1997)
1970 - Warren G, American rapper