ZEIT's Kalenderblatt for November 10, 2025, summarizes key historical dates, name days, birthdays, and death anniversaries. It highlights events from politics, war, and culture spanning centuries.
On November 10, 2025, ZEIT's Kalenderblatt recalls several notable historical moments. In 2020, Russia mediated a ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan that halted the bloody fighting in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Armenia had to vacate occupied territories, and a Russian peacekeeping force monitored the agreements. Thousands of Armenians protested.
In 2000, the Bundestag passed, with votes from the red-green majority, the law on registered life partnerships for same-sex couples. They were thereby equated to married couples in many legal areas.
In 1995, the writer and regime critic Ken Saro-Wiwa, recipient of the alternative Nobel Prize, was executed in Nigeria despite worldwide protests. In 1975, Walter Scheel made the first state visit to the Soviet Union as German Federal President. In 1775, during the American War of Independence, the US Marine Corps was founded, an elite unit of the US armed forces that has fought in nearly all US conflicts.
Birthdays include Kristina Vogel (born 1990, 35 years old), German track cyclist who won two Olympic golds and eleven world titles, paralyzed since a 2018 training accident; Michaela Gerg (born 1965, 60 years old), German skier and five-time German champion; Roland Emmerich (born 1955, 70 years old), German director of films like «Independence Day» and «The Patriot»; and Richard Burton (born 1925, died 1984), British actor.
The death anniversary is Helmut Schmidt (died 2015, born 1918), German politician (SPD) and Chancellor from 1974 to 1982.
Name days are Johannes, Justus, and Leo.