Today is Monday, Nov. 10, the 315th day of 2008. There are 51 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History

On Nov. 10, 1775, the U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress.

On this date

In 1871, journalist-explorer Henry Stanley found Scottish missionary David Livingstone, who had not been heard from for years, near Lake Tanganyika in central Africa.

In 1917, 41 suffragists were arrested for picketing in front of the White House.

In 1938, Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” on her CBS radio program, which aired on Thursdays.

In 1954, the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, depicting the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, was dedicated by President Eisenhower in Arlington, Va.

In 1969, the children’s educational program “Sesame Street” made its debut on National Educational Television (later PBS).

In 1975, the ore-hauling ship SS Edmund Fitzgerald and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake Superior.

In 1982, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died at age 75.

Ten years ago

The Pentagon stepped up the movement of warships to the Persian Gulf as the Clinton administration swept aside the idea of negotiations with Iraq over U.N. weapons inspections rejected by the Iraqis.

One year ago

Six U.S. troops died in an insurgent ambush, making 2007 the deadliest year for American forces in Afghanistan since 2001. A stagehands strike shut down most Broadway shows, with curtains rising again 19 days later. Author Norman Mailer died in New York at age 84. The mother of rapper Kanye West, Donda West, died at a Los Angeles-area hospital at age 58 a day after undergoing plastic surgery.

Today’s Birthdays

Country singer Donna Fargo is 67. Rock singer-musician Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake and Palmer) is 61. Actor Jack Scalia is 57. Actor-comedian Sinbad is 52. Actress Mackenzie Phillips is 49. Actress Ellen Pompeo (“Grey’s Anatomy”) is 39. Rock singer-musician Jim Adkins (Jimmy Eat World) is 33. Actress Brittany Murphy is 31. Rapper Eve is 30.