Historical timeline for November 10

Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a ceasefire agreement, ending the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, and prompting protests in Armenia.

President of Bolivia Evo Morales and several of his government resign after 19 days of civil protests and a recommendation from the military.

Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.

Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.

Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.

The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush, who announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor.

Veteran's Day Weekend Tornado Outbreak: A tornado outbreak stretching from Northern Ohio to the Gulf Coast, one of the largest outbreaks recorded in November.

World Anti-Doping Agency is formed in Lausanne.

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

In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.

Germans begin to tear down the Berlin Wall.

Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.

A Dassault Falcon 50 and a Piper PA-28 Cherokee collide in mid-air over Fairview, New Jersey, killing six people and injuring eight.

Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.

A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is a form of racism.

The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.

Treaty of Osimo between Yugoslavia and Italy

Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama 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.

In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.