november 10 in history: what happened that day

Journalist Henry Stanley in 1871 found lost in Central Africa, Scottish explorer David Livingstone.

In 1885, German engineers Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach installed their internal combustion engine on a wooden bicycle that made its first trip a few hours later.

On this day, but in 1939, at the auto show in Chicago for the first time was shown the car with air conditioning – Packard Twelve

In 1961, Stalingrad was renamed Volgograd.

On November 10, the English astronomer Robert Thorburn Innes (1861) was born, who established that Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun; the Anglo-Irish military, hunter and writer John Henry Patterson (1867); the Soviet scientist, aircraft designer Andrei Tupolev (1888); the scientist-designer, academician, one of the founders of Soviet cosmonautics Mikhail Reshetnev (1924).