Notable Historical Events on October 10th
October 10th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
680 |
Al-Hussein (Al-Ḥusayn ibn) and his followers killed at Karbala by army of Yazid, the Umayyad caliph, on the way to Kufa |
1375 |
Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands |
1471 |
Battle of Brunkeberg, Stockholm (Sten Sture beats Christian I) |
1549 |
Duke of Somerset fired as Lord Protector & imprisoned |
1575 |
Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeated the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others. |
1578 |
Count Johan Casimir occupies Ghent with 500 horsemen |
1631 |
Saxon army occupies Prague |
1695 |
King Willem III escapes South Netherlands, back to England |
1720 |
French government proclaims strike on banknotes |
1733 |
France declares war on emperor Charles VI |
1760 |
Suriname Colonial Regime signs treaty with Aukaners (ex-slaves) |
1780 |
Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean |
1787 |
Amsterdam surrenders to Prussian invasion army |
1799 |
Convention of Alkmaar: British/Russian invasion army departs |
1802 |
1st non-Indian settlement in Oklahoma |
1839 |
British troops under Gen Charles Napier occupy Beirut |
1845 |
Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis |
1846 |
Alexis de Tocqueville writes about "Algerian problem" |
1846 |
Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell |
1854 |
US Assay Office in NY City, NY opens |
1857 |
American Chess Association formed (NYC) |
1863 |
Skirmish at Blue Springs, Tennessee (166 casualties) |
1865 |
John Hyatts patents billard ball |
1868 |
1st written account of a Canadian football game |
1868 |
Cuba revolts for independence against Spain |
1874 |
Fiji becomes a British possession |
1886 |
1st dinner jacket (tuxedo) worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY |
1888 |
Teatotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa) |
1889 |
Barnard College is founded. |
1892 |
Entire Hong Kong national cricket team dies in shipwreck off Taiwan |
1899 |
IR Johnson patents bicycle frame |
1900 |
Foreign ministers in Peking begin their first serious negotiations over what conditions their nations will impose on the Chinese after putting down the Boxer uprising |
1900 |
In Manchuria, Russia captures the major city of Mukden, part of their own plan to take over the whole province |
1902 |
South Africa's president Paul Kruger visits Utrecht |
1902 |
American outlaw Tom Horn's murder trial begins, and he is eventually found guilty and sentenced to death |
1903 |
The Women's Social and Political Union was formed by Emmeline Pankhurst to fight for women's rights in Britain. |
1904 |
Liberty Theater opens at 234 W 42nd St NYC |
1904 |
Yanks 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader 41 game winner Chesbro loses 1st game & chance at pennant |
1904 |
Boston pitchers achieve 148 complete games-an AL record, also record for total complete games AL 1,098, NL 1,089 |
1911 |
Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan Natl Day) |
1911 |
The KCR East Rail commences service between Kowloon and Canton. |
1911 |
Robert Borden becomes the 8th Prime Minister of Canada |
1913 |
British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 killed) |
1913 |
Gamboa Dam in Panama blown up; Atlantic & Pacific waters mix |
1913 |
Yuan Shikai installed as 1st president of China |
1914 |
German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I) |
1916 |
In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise the price of World Series grandstand seats to $5-up from $3 |
1917 |
Giants Rube Benton is 1st lefty to pitch a World Series no hitter |
1917 |
Plymouth Theater opens at 236 W 45th St NYC |
1918 |
Baden's Geisz forms government |
1919 |
Richard Strauss & Hugo van Hofmannsthals premieres in Vienna |
1920 |
1st Grandslam in WS (Smith) & 1st unassisted triple play (Wambsganss) |
1920 |
Italy annexes South Tirol (Alto Adige) |
1920 |
Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play 1st NFL game, a 0-0 tie |
1920 |
Indian Bill Wambsganns makes 1st unassisted World Series triple play |
1920 |
Indian's Elmer Smith hits baseball's 1st World Series grand slam |
1921 |
NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10 |
1923 |
Saxony gets Social Democratic & Communist coalition government |
1923 |
NY Giants & NY Yankees become 1st teams to play each other for 3 consecutive World Series, also 1st played at Yankee Stadium |
1924 |
Ibn Saud of Nedzhed captures Mecca |
1924 |
Washington Senators win their 1st World Series beat Giants in 7 |
1926 |
St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 23rd World Series |
1930 |
AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP & BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP |
1930 |
Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years |
1931 |
A J Bennett hits H Garbarino for 1st scoring pass in Canada's Big 4 |
1931 |
St Louis Cards beat Phila A's, 4 games to 3 in 28th World Series |
1931 |
William Waltons "Belshazzar's Feast" premieres in Leeds |
1932 |
"Betty & Bob" premieres on radio |
1932 |
Dnjepr Dam in USSR put into operation (world's biggest) |
1933 |
1st synthetic detergent, "Dreft" by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale |
1935 |
Coup under Gen Giorgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy |
1935 |
George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway NY |
1935 |
League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia |
1936 |
Bradman scores 212 in 202 mins in a cricket testimonial game |
1937 |
NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 1 in 34th World Series |
1938 |
Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland |
1938 |
Premier of Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st String Quartet |
1941 |
German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney |
1941 |
RAF bombs Piraeus to prevent German heavy armor advancement |
1942 |
1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt concentration camp |
1943 |
Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China |
1943 |
US bombers accidentally strike Enschede Neth, causing 151 deaths |
1944 |
Admiral Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die |
1944 |
US takes Okinawa |
1945 |
Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series |
1946 |
Max Frisch' "Die Chinesische Mauer" premieres in Zurich |
1947 |
Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical "Allegro" premieres at Majestic Theater NYC for 318 performances |
1948 |
Then record 86,288 see game 5 of World Series in Cleveland |
1949 |
3rd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Toronto |
1951 |
Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in World Series, DiMaggio's final game |
1954 |
Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after withdrawal of French troops |
1956 |
Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match v Aus, Karachi |
1956 |
On Skowron's grand slammer NY Yanks beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7 |
1957 |
Braves' Lew Burdette beats Yankees for 3rd time in 1 World Series |
1957 |
Milwaukee Braves beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 54th World Series |
1957 |
US President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware |
1957 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1957 |
A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, UK becomes the world's first major nuclear accident. |
1958 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1958 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1959 |
"Happy Town" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 5 performances |
1959 |
Lee Harvey Oswald signs guestbook in hotel Helsinki |
1959 |
Pan Am begins regular flights around the world |
1960 |
"Laughs & Other Events" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 8 perfs |
1960 |
16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo |
1960 |
Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die |
1960 |
Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards |
1960 |
WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1961 |
"Milk & Honey" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 543 performances |
1961 |
Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros & NY Mets |
1961 |
Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court |
1961 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1962 |
Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack |
1963 |
Dam bursts in Italy, 3,000+ die |
1963 |
Netherland population hits 12,000,000 |
1963 |
France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia. |
1964 |
18th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-2 at Toronto |
1964 |
18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo |
1965 |
"Drat! - The Cat!" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 8 performances |
1965 |
The Supremes appear on Ed Sullivan Show |
1965 |
"Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the first known map of America, drawn about 1440 by Norse explorer Lief Eriksson |
1967 |
Brendan Behan's "Borstal Boy" premieres in Dublin |
1968 |
Detroit Tigers beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 65th World Series |
1968 |
George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd |
1968 |
Lee Evans of US sets 400 metre record at 43.86 |
1968 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1970 |
Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1971 |
First game played at Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium, Phils win 4-1 |
1971 |
5th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Pride wins |
1971 |
Fenholt & Webber's musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" premieres in NYC |
1971 |
Rain washes out Game 2, 1st World Series postponement since 1962 |
1972 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open |
1972 |
3 members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature explosion in a house in Balkan Street, Lower Falls, Belfast |
1973 |
NY Mets beat Cin Reds in Game 5 of the NLCS |
1973 |
US Vice President Spiro T Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns |
1974 |
A's Mike Andrews files $25 million lawsuit against Charlie Finley |
1974 |
Canadian John Hathaway begins 2-yr ride of 50,600 miles |
1974 |
Labour Party wins British parliamentary election |
1974 |
US Gen George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in US over his treatment during the 1973 World Series |
1974 |
The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) and its political wing the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP)founded at the Spa Hotel in the village of Lucan near Dublin |
1975 |
Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt |
1976 |
Beijing reports arrest of Mao Zedong's widow |
1976 |
NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens |
1976 |
Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33 |
1977 |
11th Country Music Association Award: Ronnie Milsap wins |
1978 |
Aerosmith's Steve Tyler & Joe Perry injured by a cherry bomb |
1978 |
British pop music magazine "Smash Hits" first published |
1978 |
US Congress approves Dollar coin honoring women's suffrage campaigner Susan B. Anthony |
1978 |
Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Kenyatta as president of Kenya |
1978 |
Steve Perry joins Journey |
1978 |
Yanks & Dodgers play in World Series # 75 |
1979 |
Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood |
1979 |
Nordiques' Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in 1st game |
1979 |
Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone) |
1979 |
Recorded trace of snow in Central Park NYC |
1980 |
4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria |
1980 |
Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated |
1980 |
Yanks lose 4-2 & are swept by Royals in AL Championship series |
1981 |
Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo |
1982 |
Brewers beat Angels in ALCS |
1982 |
Hernan Siles Zuazo installed as president of Bolivia |
1982 |
Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint |
1982 |
US imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union |
1983 |
17th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins |
1983 |
Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM |
1983 |
Tom Monaghan becomes CEO of Detroit Tigers |
1985 |
Sudan adopts interim constitution |
1985 |
US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody |
1986 |
7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador |
1986 |
Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns |
1987 |
Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love" |
1987 |
Garfield Park Nature Center opens, latest in Cleveland Metroparks |
1987 |
Giant's Jeffrey Leonard hits playoff record HR in his 4th cons game |
1988 |
22nd Country Music Association Award: Highway 101, K T Oslin win |
1988 |
Royals announce that Dick Howser, who underwent surgery for a brain tumor in July, will return to manage the club in 1989 |
1990 |
Oakland A's sweep Red Sox in 4 games to win ALCS |
1990 |
US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space |
1990 |
American Petroleum Institute (API) reports crude inventories dropped by more than 4 MMB in the last week |
1991 |
Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers |
1991 |
Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy |
1991 |
US cuts all foreign aid to Haiti |
1992 |
Floriade (Flower Show) closes at Hague, Netherlands |
1993 |
Browns Najee Mustafaa sets club rec for longest interception (97 yds) |
1993 |
Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed |
1994 |
Lt-general Raoul Cedras resigns as dictator of Haiti |
1994 |
MPAA chief Jack Valenti holds meeting to determine new movie ratings |
1994 |
NY Giants retire Lawrence Taylor's #56 |
1994 |
Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred Gilman & Martin Rodbell |
1994 |
Value of Russian ruble decreases, 3081 rubles per dollar |
1995 |
"Garden District" opens at Circle in the Sq Theater NYC |
1995 |
Israel begins W Bank pullback, frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners |
1995 |
Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits |
1995 |
Robert E Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics |
1996 |
"Sex & Longing" opens at Cort Theater NYC |
1996 |
Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum in NYC |
1997 |
An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74. |
2005 |
Negotiations between the CDU/CSU and SPD in Germany had concluded that both parties would form a grand coaltion with Angela Merkel of the CDU as chancellor after both parties lost seats in the 2005 German federal election. She was subsequently elected in the Bundestag as chancellor on November 22 of the same year. |
2008 |
Singapore becomes the first Asian country to slip into a recession since the credit crisis began: growth has faltered as a result of less demand for exports, a reduction in tourism, and the end of the real-estate boom |
2009 |
After having closed borders for about two hundred years, Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders. |
2010 |
The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved. |
2012 |
Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on G protein-coupled receptors |
2013 |
Alice Munro is awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for literature |
2014 |
Malala Yousafzai & Kailash Satyarthi win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize |
2016 |
Donald Trump Acknowledges Not Paying Federal Income Taxes for Years |
2016 |
3 deaths in South Carolina blamed on Hurricane Matthew |
2017 |
Rizzo comes through in 8th as Cubs edge Nationals |
2017 |
At least 10 killed by wildfires in California wine country |
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