South Africa loses comeback match
1991 - South Africa returned to cricket’s international stage to a huge welcoming roar from 100,000 Indian fans and declared themselves overwhelmed that the nightmare of exclusion was finally over. India cruised to a three-wicket victory in the limited overs match, but the South Africans were just delighted to be playing. “The outcome of the match is not important,” said manager Ali Bacher after his nation’s first official cricket match for 21 years. “It’s the end of a nightmare. It’s a memorable day, a dramatic day for world cricket. I am overwhelmed by a huge sense of relief and joy.” The huge crowd at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, the world’s biggest cricket stadium, greeted the start of the One-day International with firecrackers and a huge roar as Kapil Dev sent down the first delivery to Jimmy Cook.
November 10
1766 - The Rutgers University is established in New Jersey.
1775 - The Continental Congress approves resolution to establish two battalions of US Marines.
1928 - Hirohito is enthroned as Emperor of Japan.
1937 - President Getulio Vargas of Brazil cancels elections and decrees a dictatorship.
1960 - America’s first commercial nuclear power plant goes online at Rowe, Massachusetts.
1962 - Kuwait adopts a constitution.
1976 - Syrian troops and tanks enter Beirut without resistance under agreement for multinational Arab peacekeeping force.
1982 - Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at the age of 75.
1984 - The first Breeders’ Cup thoroughbred horse race takes place at Hollywood Park Racetrack, California.
1988 - Iran and Britain restore full diplomatic ties.
1989 - Todor Zhivkov resigns after 35 years as Communist Party leader of Bulgaria.
1990 - Chandrashekhar is sworn in as India’s eighth prime minister.
1994 - Chandrika Kumaratunga wins presidential election in Sri Lanka.
1995 - A Nigerian playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa is hanged in Nigeria despite worldwide objections.
1999 - Dubai Press Club is inaugurated.
2001 - Australian Prime Minister John Howard sweeps back to power for a historic third term.
2002 - A series of pulverising tornadoes hits Alabama, Tennessee and Ohio, killing more than 35 people.
2005 - Istithmar, the UAE investment holding company, buys 230 Park Avenue in New York in a $705 million deal.
2008 - Railway and mass transit workers in Italy stage a strike.
2011 - At least 20 workers are killed and another 23 are trapped underground after a blast at a mine in China.
2012 - A Turkish military helicopter crashes due to bad weather, killing all 17 troops on-board.
