Nov. 10 (UPI) -- On this date in history:
In 1775, the United States Marine Corps, then known as the Continental Marines, was formed by order of the Second Continental Congress. President Gerald Ford marked the 200th birthday of the military branch by laying a wreath at the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Va.
In 1871, journalist Henry Stanley found Scottish missionary David Livingstone in a small African village. His famous comment: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
In 1898, a mob of more than 2,000 people, angry over the election of a Fusionist white mayor and a biracial city council, went on a rampage throughout the city of Wilmington, N.C., targeting and killing African Americans.
In 1918, a Western Union Cable Office in Nova Scotia received a top-secret message stating that all fighting related the Great War (World War I) would cease on Nov. 11, 1918.
