October 10

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October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). There are 82 days remaining.

Contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays
5 External links

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, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, 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.
1860 - The original cornerstone of the University of the South was laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.
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 Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.
1911 - The KCR East Rail commenced service between Kowloon and Canton.
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.
1935 - A tornado destroyed the 160 metre tall wooden radio tower in Langenberg. As a result of this catastrophe, few wooden towers were constructed after this date.
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.
1963 - France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
1964 - The 1964 Summer Olympics open in Tokyo, Japan
1966 - Simon and Garfunkel release the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
1967 - The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, enters into force.
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 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 - The NHL's Carolina Hurricanes win their first-ever regular season game by defeating the New Jersey Devils 2-1 in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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 - Angela Merkel is announced to be the new chancellor of Germany.

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 (d. 1844)
1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (d. 1901)
1819 - Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger, German theologian (d. 1883)
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, United States 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)
1895 - Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja, religious Guru from India (d. 1988)
1895 - Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal d. 1945)
1898 - Lilly Daché, French-born milliner (d. 1989)
1900 - Helen Hayes, American actress (d. 1993)
1901 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)
1906 - Paul Creston, American composer (d. 1985)
1906 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
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 - James Clavell, Australian author (d. 1994)
1924 - Ed Wood, American filmmaker (d. 1978)
1926 - Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997)
1930 - Yves Chauvin, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1930 - Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 - [[Harry Smith (footballer)|Harry Smith], English footballer
1933 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (d. 1969)
1938 - Moriyama Daido, Japanese photographer
1942 - Peter Coyote, American actor
1946 - Charles Dance, English actor
1946 - Naoto Kan, Japanese politician
1946 - John Prine, American singer
1946 - Chris Tarrant, British television host
1946 - Ben Vereen, American actor and dancer
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
1956 - Amanda Burton, Northern Irish actress
1957 - Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese artist
1958 - Tanya Tucker, American singer
1959 - Bradley Whitford, American actor
1959 - Kirsty MacColl, British singer and songwriter (d. 2000)
1960 - Eric Martin, American singer
1961 - Jodi Benson, American voice actress and singer
1963 - Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003)
1963 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002)
1963 - Rebecca Pidgeon, American actress, singer, and songwriter
1963 - Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer
1963 - Vegard Ulvang, Norwegian cross-country skier
1965 - Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006)
1965 - Toshi, Japanese singer (X Japan)
1966 - Tony Adams, English footballer
1968 - Bart Brentjens, Dutch mountain biker
1969 - Brett Favre, American football player
1970 - Dean Kiely, Irish footballer
1970 - Corinna May, German singer
1970 - Sir Matthew Pinsent, English rower
1970 - Maja Tatic, Serbian singer
1971 - Ian Bennett, English footballer
1972 - Alexei Zhitnik, Russian ice hockey player
1973 - Mario López, United States actor
1974 - Dale Earnhardt Jr., United States race car driver
1974 - Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentinian footballer
1976 - Bob Burnquist, Brazilian-born skateboarder
1976 - Pat Burrell, baseball player
1978 - Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, United States actress
1979 - Mya, United States singer
1979 - Nicolás Massú, Chilean tennis player
1980 - Tim Maurer, United States singer (Suburban Legends)
1980 - Elvis Hammond, Ghanaian footballer
1983 - Vusimuzi Sibanda, Zimbabwean cricketer
1982 - Amon Buchanan, Australian footballer
1984 - Stephanie Cheng, Hong Kong singer
1984 - Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress
1985 - Layke Anderson, British actor

Deaths

19 - Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)
732 - Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, 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
1759 - Granville Elliott, British military officer (b. 1713)
1765 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
1795 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
1806 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (b. 1772)
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)
1876 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
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)
1930 - Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
1939 - Eleanor Rigby
1940 - Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
1964 - Eddie Cantor, American singer and vaudeville performer (b. 1892)
1964 - Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (b. 1888)
1970 - Édouard Daladier, French politician (b. 1884)
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)
1979 - Paul Paray, French conductor (b. 1886)
1983 - Ralph Richardson, English actor (b. 1902)
1985 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (b. 1915)
1985 - Orson Welles, American director and actor (b. 1915)
1986 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
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)
Republic of China (on Taiwan) - National Day (Double Tenth Day 雙十國慶)
Fiji - Fiji Day (National Day)
Japan - National Health-Sports Day
[United States] - [Bonza Bottler Day].
World Mental Health Day
Old Michelmas - Celtic holiday
French Republican Calendar - Tournesol (Sunflower) Day, nineteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

External links

[BBC: On This Day]

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