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Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

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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, 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: Roman 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.

★ 1889 - Barnard College was founded.

★ 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.

★ 1919 - Richard Strauss' opera Die Frau ohne Schatten receives its debut performance in Vienna.

★ 1920 - The Carinthian Plebiscite determined that the larger part of Carinthia became part of Austria.

★ 1933 - United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, 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.

★ 1967 - The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, enters into force.

★ 1969 - King Crimson releases their debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King, which is considered the first progressive rock album by many people.

★ 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.

★ 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.

★ 1995 - South African President Nelson Mandela attends Genadendal.

★ 1997 - An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.

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 (d. 1844)

★ 1794 - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (d. 1871)

★ 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)

★ 1828 - Samuel J. Randall, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1890)

★ 1830 - Queen Isabella II of Spain (d. 1904)

★ 1834 - Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author (d. 1872)

★ 1837 - Robert Gould Shaw, American Army officer (d. 1863)

★ 1861 - Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, Nobel laureate (d. 1930)

★ 1863 - Louis Cyr, French Canadian strongman (d. 1912)

★ 1863 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (d. 1933)

★ 1864 - T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman from New Jersey (d. 1924)

★ 1870 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1953)

★ 1885 - Walter Anderson, German folklorist (d. 1962)

★ 1895 - Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (d. 1935)

★ 1895 - Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja, Indian guru (d. 1988)

★ 1895 - Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945)

★ 1898 - Lilly Daché, French-born milliner (d. 1989)

★ 1899 - Padma Bhushan Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Indian-born Eminent Sanskrit Scholor (d. 1999)

★ 1900 - Helen Hayes, American actress (d. 1993)

★ 1901 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)

★ 1903 - Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter (d. 1969)

★ 1903 - Prince Charles of Belgium, Prince Regent of Belgium (d. 1983)

★ 1906 - Paul Creston, American composer (d. 1985)

★ 1906 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)

★ 1908 - Johnny Green, American songwriter, arranger and conductor (d. 1989)

★ 1908 - Mercè Rodoreda, Catalan novelist (d. 1983)

★ 1913 - Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)

★ 1914 - Tommy Fine, American baseball player (d. 2005)

★ 1914 - Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer (d. 1974)

★ 1917 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (d. 1982)

★ 1923 - Nicholas Parsons, English actor

★ 1924 - James Clavell, Australian author (d. 1994)

★ 1924 - Ed Wood, American filmmaker (d. 1978)

★ 1924 - Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballet dancer and actress (d. 2004)

★ 1926 - Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997)

★ 1927 - Dana Elcar, American actor (d. 2005)

★ 1930 - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (d. 1970)

★ 1930 - Yves Chauvin, French chemist, Nobel laureate

★ 1930 - Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel laureate

★ 1932 - Harry Smith, English footballer

★ 1933 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)

★ 1938 - Moriyama Daido, Japanese photographer

★ 1941 - Peter Coyote, American actor

★ 1942 - Radu Vasile, Romanian Prime Minister, 17 April 1998- 13 December 1999

★ 1946 - Charles Dance, English actor

★ 1946 - Naoto Kan, Japanese politician

★ 1946 - John Prine, American singer

★ 1946 - Chris Tarrant, English TV presenter

★ 1946 - Ben Vereen, American actor

★ 1946 - Peter Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1947 - Martin Ruane, English professional wrestler (d. 1998)

★ 1948 - Séverine, French singer

★ 1948 - Ed Volker, American musician

★ 1951 - Epeli Ganilau, Fijian statesman

★ 1953 - Midge Ure, Scottish musician

★ 1953 - Gus Williams, American basketball player

★ 1954 - Rekha, Bollywood actress

★ 1955 - David Lee Roth, American singer

★ 1956 - Amanda Burton, Northern Irish actress

★ 1957 - Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese artist

★ 1958 - Tanya Tucker, American singer

★ 1959 - Kirsty MacColl, English singer (d. 2000)

★ 1959 - Bradley Whitford, American actor

★ 1960 - Eric Martin, American singer (Mr. Big)

★ 1961 - Jodi Benson, American voice actress

★ 1961 - Henrik Jørgensen, Danish marathon runner

★ 1961 - Julia Sweeney, American actress and comedian

★ 1963 - Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003)

★ 1963 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002)

★ 1963 - Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer

★ 1963 - Vegard Ulvang, Norwegian cross-country skier.

★ 1965 - Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006)

★ 1965 - Clive Jones, British engineer

★ 1965 - Rebecca Pidgeon, American actress

★ 1965 - Toshi, Japanese singer (X Japan)

★ 1966 - Tony Adams, English footballer

★ 1968 - Bart Brentjens, Dutch mountain biker

★ 1969 - Brett Favre, American football player

★ 1969 - Wendi McLendon-Covey, American actress

★ 1970 - Dean Kiely, Irish footballer

★ 1970 - Bai Ling, Chinese American actress

★ 1970 - Corinna May, German singer

★ 1970 - Sir Matthew Pinsent, English rower

★ 1971 - Ian Bennett, English footballer

★ 1971 - Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist

★ 1972 - Alexei Zhitnik, Russian ice hockey player

★ 1973 - Mario López, American actor

★ 1973 - Semmy Schilt, Dutch kickboxer

★ 1974 - Dale Earnhardt Jr., American race car driver

★ 1974 - Assi Cohen, Israeli comedian and actor

★ 1974 - Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentinian footballer

★ 1974 - Chris Pronger, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1975 - Plácido Polanco, Dominican baseball player

★ 1976 - Bob Burnquist, Brazilian-born skateboarder

★ 1976 - Pat Burrell, American baseball player

★ 1978 - Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, American actress

★ 1979 - Mya Harrison, American singer

★ 1979 - Nicolás Massú, Chilean tennis player

★ 1979 - Ahn Chil Hyun (Kangta), lead singer of the former South Korean group H.O.T.

★ 1980 - Tim Maurer, American singer (Suburban Legends)

★ 1980 - Elvis Hammond, Ghanaian footballer

★ 1982 - Amon Buchanan, Australian rules footballer

★ 1983 - Vusimuzi Sibanda, Zimbabwean cricketer

★ 1984 - Stephanie Cheng, Hong Kong singer

★ 1984 - Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress

★ 1984 - Paul Posluszny, American football player

★ 1985 - Layke Anderson, British actor

★ 1985 - Dominique Cornu, Belgian professional cyclist

★ 1989 - Aimee Teegarden, Julie Taylor on Friday Night Lights

★ 1990 - Mike Healy, Manchester United Youth Team Player

Deaths

★ 19 - Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)

★ 680 - Husayn ibn Ali, Shi'a imam, Mahomet's grandson (b. 626)

★ 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 (b. 1295)

★ 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 (b. 1665)

★ 1725 - Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France (b. 1643)

★ 1747 - John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1674)

★ 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, American baseball player (b. 1845)

★ 1901 - Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)

★ 1913 - Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)

★ 1914 - King Carol I of Romania (b. 1839)

★ 1927 - Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)

★ 1930 - Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)

★ 1939 - Eleanor Rigby, a real person whose name may have suggested the title to The Beatles song (b. 1895)

★ 1940 - Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)

★ 1957 - Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (b. 1885)

★ 1963 - Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (b. 1893)

★ 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)

★ 1971 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)

★ 1976 - Silvana Armenulic, Yugoslavian folk singer (b. 1939)

★ 1978 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (b. 1910)

★ 1979 - Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)

★ 1979 - Paul Paray, French conductor (b. 1886)

★ 1982 - Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)

★ 1983 - Ralph Richardson, English actor (b. 1902)

★ 1985 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (b. 1920)

★ 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)

★ 2001 - Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)

★ 2001 - Vasily Mishin, Soviet rocket designer (b. 1917)

★ 2002 - Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)

★ 2003 - Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)

★ 2004 - Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (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)

★ 2006 - Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)

★ 2006 - Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)

Holidays and observances

★ Occasionally (once every five or six years, when it falls on a Monday), October 10th is when Columbus Day and Canadian Thanksgiving are observed. Far less frequently, October 10th is coincidental with Yom Kippur.

★ RC Saints - Saint Thomas of Villanueva? ; Saint Paulinus of York (in England); Viktor of Xanten; Saint Cerbonius

★ Republic of China (Taiwan) - National Day (Double Tenth Day 雙十國慶)

★ Fiji - Fiji Day (National Day)

★ Japan - National Health-Sports Day

★ World Mental Health Day

★ Old Michelmas - Celtic holiday

★ French Republican Calendar - Tournesol (Sunflower) Day, nineteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

★ North Korea - Party Foundation Party (celebration the founding of the Workers Party of Korea)

★ Finland - The Day of Finnish literature

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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