What happened on 10 November?

8 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1928 Born: Ennio Morricone Italian composer; soundtracks to Sergio Leone westerns and over 400 other films.
2. 1938 Death of Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and first president of the Turkish Republic, dies; İsmet İnönü succeeds him.
3. 1444 Battle of Varna Polish-Hungarian crusade against the Ottomans destroyed at Varna; King Władysław III killed; effectively ends crusader land campaigns into the Balkans.
4. 1659 Battle of Pratapgarh Meeting the Bijapuri general Afzal Khan for a parley below Pratapgarh fort, Shivaji kills him with tiger claws and his hidden troops rout the Bijapur army.
5. 1793 Notre-Dame hosts the Festival of Reason At the height of revolutionary dechristianisation, Notre-Dame de Paris is rededicated as a Temple of Reason, an actress enthroned as Liberty where the altar stood. Churches across
6. 1236 Razia Sultana accedes to the throne of Delhi Named heir over her brothers by her father, Razia rules for less than four years — the only woman to sit on the Delhi throne.
7. 1950 Russell wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Honoured for writings 'in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought'.
8. 1950 Faulkner wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded the deferred 1949 prize, Faulkner tells Stockholm 'I decline to accept the end of man' — a Cold War-era speech still quoted as a credo for writers.