October 10
October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). There are 82 days remaining.
Events:
- 680 - Battle of Kerbela[?]
- 732 - Battle of Tours
- 1845 - U.S. Naval Academy opens
- 1911 - Wuchang Uprising which led to the founding of the Republic of China
- 1939 - Germany annexes Western Poland
- 1964 - Olympics Games open in Tokyo, Japan
- 1970 -
- Fiji becomes independent
- Montreal, Quebec: National crisis in Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
- 1973 - Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns
- 1979 - Panama assumes sovereignty over the Panama Canal
- 1994 - Doom II: Hell on Earth is released.
Births:
- 1684 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (+ 1721)
- 1780 - John Abercrombie, Scottish physician and philosopher
- 1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (+ 1901)
- 1861 - Fridtjof Nansen, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Arctic explorer (+ 1930)
- 1900 - Helen Hayes, actress (+ 1993)
- 1901 - Alberto Giacometti, Italian sculptor (+ 1966)
- 1917 - Thelonious Monk, jazz pianist (+ 1982)
- 1919 - Jean Vander Pyl[?], cartoon voice-over actress
- 1924 - Ed Wood, American filmmaker (+ 1978)
- 1924 - James Clavell, author (+ 1994)
- 1926 - Richard Jaeckel[?], actor (+ 1997)
- 1930 - Harold Pinter, British playwright
- 1937 - Bobby Charlton, English football player
- 1942 - Peter Coyote[?], actor
- 1946 - John Prine[?], singer
- 1946 - Ben Vereen, actor, dancer
- 1953 - Midge Ure[?], musician
- 1955 - David Lee Roth[?], singer
- 1956 - Martina Navratilova, tennis champion
- 1958 - Tanya Tucker[?], country music singer
- 1963 - Daniel Pearl, journalist
- 1963 - Rebecca Pidgeon[?], actress
- 1966 - Tony Adams, English football player
- 1969 - Brett Favre, American football player
- 1973 - Mario Lopez[?], actor
- 1974 - Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCAR racer
Deaths:
- 1459 - Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist, classicist
- 1827 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer
- 1914 - Charles I of Romania
- 1940 - Berton Churchill, pioneer Hollywood actor
- 1964 - Eddie Cantor, singer, vaudeville performer
- 1971 - John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian
- 1978 - Ralph Metcalfe[?], track and field athlete
- 1979 - Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist
- 1983 - Ralph Richardson, actor
- 1985 - Yul Brynner, actor
- 1985 - Orson Welles, American director, actor
- 1998 - Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense
Holidays:
- Republic of China (on Taiwan) - Double Tenth Day (National Day)
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
October 9 - October 11 - September 10 - November 10 - more historical anniversaries
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