October 10 in History

Events

• 19 AD – Roman general Germanicus suddenly dies in Antioch under mysterious circumstances. Roman historian Tactius records that Germanicus was poisoned by Syrian Governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso under orders from Roman emperor Tiberius.
• 680 – Battle of Karbala: Hussain bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W), is decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Muslims as Aashurah.
• 732 – Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, the 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 the 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 defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
• 1580 – After a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 Papal soldiers and civilians at Dún an Óir, Ireland.
• 1582 – Because of 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 midshipman students and seven professors.
• 1860 – The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.
• 1868 – Carlos Céspedes issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba's independence
• 1871 – The Great Chicago Fire: Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8 to October 10.
• 1911 – The Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.
• 1913 – President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
• 1920 – The Carinthian Plebiscite determines that the larger part of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
• 1928 – Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
• 1933 – United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by , the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
• 1935 – A coup d'état by the royalist leadership of the Greek Armed Forces takes place in Athens. It overthrows the government of Panagis Tsaldaris and establishes a regency under Georgios Kondylis, effectively ending the Second Hellenic Republic.
• 1938 – The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
• 1942 – The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia.
• 1943 – Double Tenth Incident in Japanese-controlled Singapore
• 1944 – Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.
• 1945 – The Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in Chongqing about the future of post-war China. Later, the pact is commonly referred to as the Double-Ten Agreement.
• 1957 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
• 1957 – The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world's first major nuclear accident.
• 1963 – France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
• 1964 – The opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite.
• 1967 – The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes 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, 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.
• 1975 – Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
• 1980 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs in the Algerian town of El Asnam. 3,500 die and 300,000 are left homeless.
• 1985 – United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of 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.
• 1997 – An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
• 1998 – A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
• 2006 – The Greek city of Volos floods in one of the prefecture's worst recorded floods.
• 2008 – The 10 October 2008 Orakzai bombing kills 110 and injures 200 more.
• 2009 – Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.
• 2010 – The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.

Births

• 1344 – Mary Plantagenet, English princess (d. 1362)
• 1567 – Infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597)
• 1599 – Étienne Moulinié, French Baroque composer (d. 1676)
• 1669 – Johann Nicolaus Bach, German composer (d. 1753)
• 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)
• 1813 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (d. 1901)
• 1825 – Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic (d. 1904)
• 1828 – Samuel J. Randall, 33rd 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)
• 1861 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, Nobel laureate (d. 1930)
• 1863 – Helen Dunbar, American actress (d. 1933)
• 1870 – Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1953)
• 1870 – Louise Mack, Australian writer (d. 1935)
• 1884 – Ida Wüst, German actress (d. 1958)
• 1889 – Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter, portraitist and art forger (d. 1947)
• 1895 – Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (d. 1935)
• 1895 – Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
• 1900 – Helen Hayes, American actress (d. 1993)
• 1903 – Prince Charles of Belgium, Prince Regent of Belgium (d. 1983)
• 1903 – Bei Shizhang, Chinese biologist and educator (d. 2009)
• 1906 – R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
• 1908 – Mercè Rodoreda, Catalan novelist (d. 1983)
• 1911 – Clare Hollingworth, British journalist
• 1912 – Ram Vilas Sharma ,Indian Hindi Writer (d.2000)
• 1913 – Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
• 1919 – Willard Estey, Canadian justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d. 2002)
• 1923 – Nicholas Parsons, English actor
• 1924 – James Clavell, Australian author (d. 1994)
• 1924 – Edward D. Wood, Jr., American filmmaker (d. 1978)
• 1926 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997)
• 1926 – Oscar Brown Jr, American singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, and actor (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Dana Elcar, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1930 – Yves Chauvin, French chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1930 – Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
• 1930 – Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (d. 1970)
• 1935 – Abu Jihad, Founder of the Palestinian group Fatah (d. 1988)
• 1936 – Gerhard Ertl, German surface chemist, Nobel laureate, 2007.
• 1938 – Gloria Coates, American composer
• 1940 – Winston Spencer-Churchill, British politician (d. 2010)
• 1940 – Pouri Banai, Iranian actress
• 1942 – Radu Vasile, Romanian Prime Minister
• 1946 – Martin Ruane, English wrestler (d. 1998)
• 1950 – Nora Roberts, American novelist
• 1951 – Epeli Ganilau, Fijian statesman
• 1954 – Mohamed Mounir, Egyptian musician
• 1954 – Rekha, Indian actress
• 1954 – Patric Zimmerman, American voice actor
• 1956 – Mark Gordon, American film producer
• 1959 – Kirsty MacColl, English singer (d. 2000)
• 1959 – Julia Sweeney, American actress, comedian, and author
• 1959 – Bradley Whitford, American actor
• 1960 – Eric Martin, American singer (Mr. Big)
• 1963 – Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003)
• 1964 – Sarah Lancashire, English actress
• 1964 – Crystal Waters, U.S. singer
• 1965 – Rebecca Pidgeon, American actress
• 1966 – Tony Adams, English footballer
• 1968 – Marinos Ouzounidis, Greek footballer and football manager
• 1969 – Brett Favre, American football player
• 1969 – Wendi McLendon-Covey, American actress
• 1970 – Dean Kiely, Irish footballer
• 1971 – Ian Bennett, English footballer
• 1973 – Mario López, American actor
• 1974 – Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentinian footballer
• 1975 – Ramón Morales, Mexican footballer
• 1976 – Pat Burrell, American baseball player
• 1976 – Shane Doan, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, American actress
• 1980 – Casey FitzSimmons, American football player
• 1981 – Michael Oliver, American actor
• 1981 – Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Mexican footballer
• 1983 – Vusimuzi Sibanda, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1983 – Nikos Spyropoulos, Greek footballer
• 1984 – Troy Tulowitzki, American baseball player
• 1986 – Ezequiel Garay, Argentine footballer
• 1989 – Aimee Teegarden, American actress

Deaths

• 19 – Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)
• 680 – Husayn ibn Ali, Shi'a Imam, Muhammad (S.A.W)'s grandson (b. 626)
• 732 – Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia
• 1359 – King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
• 1659 – Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (b. 1603)
• 1674 – Thomas Traherne, English poet
• 1691 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)
• 1708 – David Gregory, Scottish mathematician (b. 1659)
• 1723 – William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England(b. 1665)
• 1725 – Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France (b. 1643)
• 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)
• 1872 – William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
• 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)
• 1930 – Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
• 1940 – Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
• 1966 – Charlotte Cooper, English tennis player (b. 1870)
• 1971 – John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
• 1977 – Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
• 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. 1920)
• 1985 – Orson Welles, American director and actor (b. 1915)
• 1991 – Mickey Hirschl, Austrian wrestler (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (b. 1957)
• 2000 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Vasily Mishin, Soviet rocket designer (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)
• 2005 – Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Stephen Gately, Irish singer (Boyzone) (b. 1976)
• 2011 – Jagjit Singh, Indian musician (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Alex Karras, American football player, wrestler, and actor (b. 1935)

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