Film composer Ennio Morricone is 81.

American Indian activist Russell Means is 70.

Country singer Donna Fargo is 68.

Actress-dancer Ann Reinking is 60.

Actor-comedian Sinbad is 53.

Actor Michael Jai White is 45.

Actress Ellen Pompeo ("Grey's Anatomy") is 40.

Actress Brittany Murphy is 32.

Rapper Eve is 31.

Rock musician Chris Jannou (Silverchair) is 30.

Actor Bryan Neal is 29.

Country singer Miranda Lambert is 26.

Actor Josh Peck is 23.

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

In 1871, journalist-explorer Henry M. 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.

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

In 1975, the ore-hauling ship SS Edmund Fitzgerald and its crew of 29 mysteriously sank during a storm in Lake Superior with the loss of all on board.

"Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chiefly."

-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (1806-1861)