October 10
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October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). There are 82 days remaining.
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Events
- 680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Shi'a Muslims as Aashurah.
- 732 - Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, leader of the Franks Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba, Abd-ar-Rahman, is killed during the battle.
- 1471 - Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm: Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark.
- 1575 - Battle of Dormans: Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeated the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
- 1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1631 - A Saxon army takes over Prague.
- 1780 - The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean.
- 1845 - In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors.
- 1868 - Carlos Céspedes issued the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba's independence.
- 1877 - Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer is given a funeral with full military honors.
- 1908 - Baseball Writers Association forms.
- 1910 - Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity is established at Columbia University.
- 1911 - Wuchang Uprising which led to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last emperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.
- 1913 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
- 1920 - The Carinthian Plebiscite determined that the larger part of Carinthia became part of Austria.
- 1933 - A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage while en route from Cleveland, Ohio to Chicago, Illinois, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
- 1938 - The Blue Water Bridge opens, connecting Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario
- 1938 - World War II: The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Germany.
- 1944 - Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are systematically murdered at Auschwitz death camp.
- 1954 - The Communist Party of Honduras is founded.
- 1957 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he was refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
- 1964 - The 1964 Summer Olympics open in Tokyo, Japan
- 1966 - Simon and Garfunkel release the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
- 1970 - Fiji becomes independent.
- 1970 - In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
- 1971 - Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, the London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
- 1973 - Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
- 1978 - US President Jimmy Carter signs a bill into law that authorizes the minting of the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
- 1979 - The Pac-Man arcade game is released to the Japanese market by Namco.
- 1985 - United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijackers and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested.
- 1986 - An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
- 1987 - Fiji becomes a republic.
- 1997 - An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
- 2001 - US President George W. Bush presents a list of 22 most wanted terrorists.
- 2005 - Channel 4's new 'adult' entertainment channel More4 starts broadcasting on ntl, Sky Digital and Freeview in the UK.
- 2005 - Angela Merkel is announced to be the new chancellor of Germany.
- 2005- Most Aardman Animations props are melted in a warehouse fire.Props from Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit were destroyed.
Births
- 1678 - John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (d. 1743)
- 1684 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (d. 1721)
- 1700 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)
- 1731 - Henry Cavendish, British scientist (d. 1810)
- 1780 - John Abercrombie, Scottish physician and philosopher (b. 1844)
- 1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (d. 1901)
- 1825 - Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic (d. 1904)
- 1830 - Queen Isabella II of Spain (d. 1904)
- 1834 - Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author (d. 1872)
- 1837 - Robert Gould Shaw, U.S. Army officer (d. 1863)
- 1861 - Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1930)
- 1870 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
- 1885 - Walter Anderson, German folklorist (d. 1962)
- 1898 - Lilly Daché, French-born milliner (d. 1989)
- 1900 - Helen Hayes, American actress (d. 1993)
- 1901 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)
- 1906 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
- 1906 - Paul Creston, American composer (d. 1985)
- 1913 - Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
- 1914 - Tommy Fine, baseball player (d. 2005)
- 1917 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (d. 1982)
- 1924 - Ed Wood, American filmmaker (d. 1978)
- 1924 - James Clavell, Australian author (d. 1994)
- 1926 - Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997)
- 1930 - Yves Chauvin, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1930 - Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1933 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist
- 1938 - Moriyama Daido, Japanese photographer
- 1942 - Peter Coyote, American actor
- 1946 - Charles Dance, English actor
- 1946 - John Prine, American singer
- 1946 - Ben Vereen, American actor and dancer
- 1946 - Chris Tarrant, British television host
- 1946 - Naoto Kan, Japanese politician
- 1948 - Séverine, French singer
- 1951 - Ratu Epeli Ganilau, Fiji soldier and statesman
- 1953 - Midge Ure, Scottish musician
- 1953 - Gus Williams, American basketball player
- 1954 - David Lee Roth, American singer
- 1957 - Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese artist
- 1958 - Tanya Tucker, American singer
- 1959 - Kirsty MacColl, British singer and songwriter (d. 2000)
- 1960 - Eric Martin, American singer
- 1961 - Jodi Benson, American voice actress and singer
- 1963 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002)
- 1963 - Rebecca Pidgeon, American actress, singer, and songwriter
- 1963 - Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer
- 1963 - Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003)
- 1966 - Tony Adams, English footballer
- 1968 - Bart Brentjens, Dutch mountain biker
- 1969 - Brett Favre, American football player
- 1970 - Maja Tatic, Serbian singer
- 1970 - Corinna May, German singer
- 1970 - Sir Matthew Pinsent, English rower
- 1973 - Mario López, American actor
- 1974 - Dale Earnhardt Jr., American race car driver
- 1976 - Bob Burnquist, Brazilian-born skateboarder
- 1976 - Pat Burrell, baseball player
- 1978 - Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, American actress
- 1979 - Mya, American singer
- 1980 - Tim Maurer, American singer (Suburban Legends)
- 1984 - Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress
- 1984 - Stephanie Cheng, Hong Kong singer
Deaths
- 19 - Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)
- 732 - Abd ar-Rahman, Moorish Governor of Andalusia
- 833 - al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786)
- 1359 - King Hugh IV of Cyprus
- 1459 - Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist and classicist (b. 1380)
- 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss reformer (killed in battle) (b. 1484)
- 1659 - Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (b. 1603)
- 1674 - Thomas Traherne, English poet
- 1691 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)
- 1708 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (b. 1659)
- 1714 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (b. 1646)
- 1720 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)
- 1723 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England
- 1725 - Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France
- 1747 - John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1765 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
- 1827 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer (b. 1778)
- 1837 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (b. 1772)
- 1872 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
- 1875 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
- 1893 - Lip Pike, baseball player (b. 1845)
- 1901 - Lorenzo Snow, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
- 1913 - Katsura Taro, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1848)
- 1914 - Charles I of Romania (b. 1839)
- 1927 - Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
- 1940 - Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
- 1964 - Eddie Cantor, American singer and vaudeville performer (b. 1892)
- 1971 - John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
- 1978 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (b. 1910)
- 1979 - Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
- 1983 - Ralph Richardson, English actor (b. 1902)
- 1985 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (b. 1915)
- 1985 - Orson Welles, American director and actor (b. 1915)
- 1998 - Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
- 2000 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
- 2002 - Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
- 2003 - Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
- 2004 - Ken Caminiti, baseball player (heart attack) (b. 1963)
- 2004 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
- 2004 - Arthur H. Robinson, American cartographer (b. 1915)
- 2004 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (b. 1932)
- 2005 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (b. 1921)
- 2005 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
Holidays
- RC Saints - Saint Thomas of Villanueva? ; Saint Paulinus of York (in England)
- Also see October 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Canada - Thanksgiving Day of 2005 (second Monday of October)
- Republic of China (on Taiwan) - National Day (Double Tenth Day 雙十國慶)
- Fiji - Fiji Day (National Day)
- United States - Columbus Day of 2005 (second Monday of October)
- Japan - National Health-Sports Day
- World Mental Health Day
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