November 10 Holidays

Marine Corps Birthday marks November 10, 1775, when the Continental Congress resolved to raise two battalions of marines — establishing the United States Marine Corps at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia and beginning a tradition that makes the Marine Corps the oldest continuously active service in the American military. National Vanilla Cupcake Day celebrates the vanilla version of the miniature cake first documented by Hannah Cooley in 1796 — the format that New York City’s Magnolia Bakery popularized in the early 2000s and that generated a nationwide cupcake bakery boom worth an estimated $700 million annually. Sesame Street Day marks November 10, 1969, when Sesame Street premiered on NET (now PBS) — the children’s educational television program created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett that has aired in more than 150 countries and helped prepare generations of children for school. International Accounting Day marks November 10, 1494, when Fra Luca Pacioli published his Summa de Arithmetica — the book that introduced double-entry bookkeeping to the Western world and earned him the title “Father of Accounting.”