What happened on October 10? There are more than 316 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About October 10
October 10 is the 284th day of the year 2024. There are 82 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday. This day falls under the 41st week of the year 2024.
On this day in Pearl River, New York 10965 sunrise occured at 07:01 AM and sunset occured at 06:24 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Libra. The modern birthstone for this month is Opal while the mystical birthstone is Jasper.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 111 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For October 10
- 19Roman 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.
- 680Battle of Karbala: Hussain bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Muslims as Aashurah.
- 732Battle 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.
- 1471Battle 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.
- 1575Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
- 1580After a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 Irish and Papal soldiers and civilians at Dún an Óir, Ireland.
- 1582Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1631A Saxon army takes over Prague.
- 1780The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean.
- 1845In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipman students and seven professors.
- 1860The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.
- 1868Carlos Céspedes issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba’s independence
- 1911The Kowloon-Canton Railway (split into MTR East Rail Line and Guangshen Railway now) commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
- 1911The Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.
- 1913President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
- 1920The Carinthian Plebiscite determines that the larger part of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
- 1928Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
- 1933United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
- 1935A 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.
- 1938The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
- 1942The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia.
- 1943Double Tenth Incident in Japanese controlled Singapore
- 1944Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.
- 1945The 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.
- 1957The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world’s first major nuclear accident.
- 1957U.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.
- 1963France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
- 1964The opening ceremony at The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite.
- 1967The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force.
- 1970Fiji becomes independent.
- 1970In 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.
- 1971Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
- 1972The 1972 Chicago commuter rail crash, killing 48, occurs due to foggy conditions. The accident’s response pushes for changes in Chicago commuter rail, such as brightly colored ends on the cars.
- 1973Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
- 1975Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
- 1980A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs in the Algerian town of El Asnam. 3.500 die and 300,000 are left homeless.
- 1985United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijackers and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested.
- 1986An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
- 1997An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
- 1998A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
- 2006The Greek city of Volos floods in one of the prefecture’s worst recorded floods.
- 2008The 10 October 2008 Orakzai bombing kills 110 and injures 200 more.
- 2009Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.
- 2010The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.
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Who Were Born On October 10?
- 1344Mary Plantagenet, English princess (d. 1362)
- 1567Infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597)
- 1678John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (d. 1743)
- 1684Antoine Watteau, French painter (d. 1721)
- 1700Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)
- 1731Henry Cavendish, British scientist (d. 1810)
- 1780John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (d. 1844)
- 1794William Whiting Boardman, American politician (d. 1871)
- 1813Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (d. 1901)
- 1819Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger, German theologian (d. 1883)
- 1825Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic (d. 1904)
- 1828Samuel J. Randall, 33rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1890)
- 1830Queen Isabella II of Spain (d. 1904)
- 1834Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author (d. 1872)
- 1837Robert Gould Shaw, American Army officer (d. 1863)
- 1861Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, Nobel laureate (d. 1930)
- 1863Helen Dunbar, American actress (d. 1933)
- 1863Louis Cyr, French Canadian strongman (d. 1912)
- 1864T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman from New Jersey (d. 1924)
- 1870Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1953)
- 1870Louise Mack, Australian writer (d. 1935)
- 1884Ida Wüst, German actress (d. 1958)
- 1885Walter Anderson, German folklorist (d. 1962)
- 1889Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter, portraitist and art forger (d. 1947)
- 1895Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (d. 1935)
- 1895Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
- 1898Lilly Daché, French-born milliner (d. 1989)
- 1900Helen Hayes, American actress (d. 1993)
- 1901Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)
- 1903Bei Shizhang, Chinese biologist and educator (d. 2009)
- 1903Prince Charles of Belgium, Prince Regent of Belgium (d. 1983)
- 1903Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter (d. 1969)
- 1906Paul Creston, American composer (d. 1985)
- 1906R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
- 1908Johnny Green, American songwriter, arranger and conductor (d. 1989)
- 1908Mercè Rodoreda, Catalan novelist (d. 1983)
- 1909Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director (d. 2010)
- 1910Julius Shulman, American architectural photographer (d. 2009)
- 1911Clare Hollingworth, British journalist
- 1913Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
- 1914Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer (d. 1974)
- 1914Tommy Fine, American baseball player (d. 2005)
- 1915Sweets Edison, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1999)
- 1917Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (d. 1982)
- 1919Willard Estey, Canadian justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d. 2002)
- 1923Louis Gottlieb, bassist and lofty comic spokesman for The Limeliters (d. 1996)
- 1923Murray Walker, British motorsport commentator
- 1923Nicholas Parsons, English actor
- 1924Edward D. Wood, Jr., American filmmaker (d. 1978)
- 1924James Clavell, Australian author (d. 1994)
- 1924Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballet dancer and actress (d. 2004)
- 1925The Great Antonio, Croatian-Canadian strongman (d. 2001)
- 1926Oscar Brown Jr, American singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, and actor (d. 2005)
- 1926Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997)
- 1927Dana Elcar, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1927Thomas Wilson (composer), Scottish composer of classical music (d. 2001)
- 1928Sheila F. Walsh, English novelist (d. 2009)
- 1929Herb Levinson, American actor
- 1930Eugenio Castellotti, Italian race car driver (d. 1957)
- 1930Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
- 1930Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (d. 1970)
- 1930Yves Chauvin, French chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1932Harry Smith, English footballer
- 1933Jay Sebring, American hair stylist and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
- 1935Abu Jihad, Founder of the Palestinian group Fatah (d. 1988)
- 1935André Bureau, French Canadian communications executive
- 1936Gerhard Ertl, German surface chemist, Nobel laureate, 2007.
- 1938Moriyama Daido, Japanese photographer
- 1939Joseph Pitts, American politician
- 1940Winston Spencer-Churchill, British politician (d. 2010)
- 1941Peter Coyote, American actor
- 1942Radu Vasile, Romanian Prime Minister
- 1943Frederick Barthelme, American author
- 1946Ben Vereen, American actor
- 1946Charles Dance, English actor
- 1946Chris Tarrant, English TV presenter
- 1946John Prine, American singer
- 1946Martin Ruane, English professional wrestler (d. 1998)
- 1946Mildred Grieveson (aka: Anne Mather, Caroline Fleming, Cardine Fleming), English writer
- 1946Naoto Kan, Japanese politician
- 1946Peter Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1947Gary Beach, American actor
- 1948Ed Volker, American musician
- 1948Séverine, French singer
- 1949Ioannis Glavakis, Greek politician
- 1950Nora Roberts, American novelist
- 1951Epeli Ganilau, Fijian statesman
- 1953Gus Williams, American basketball player
- 1953Midge Ure, Scottish musician
- 1954David Lee Roth, American singer (Van Halen)
- 1954Mohamed Mounir, Egyptian musician
- 1954Patric Zimmerman, American voice actor
- 1954Rekha, Bollywood actress
- 1956Amanda Burton, Northern Irish actress
- 1956Mark Gordon, American film producer
- 1957Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese artist
- 1958Tanya Tucker, American singer
- 1959Bradley Whitford, American actor
- 1959Julia Sweeney, American actress, comedian, and author
- 1959Kirsty MacColl, English singer (d. 2000)
- 1960Eric Martin, American singer (Mr. Big)
- 1960Ron Flockhart, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1960Simon Townshend, British rock guitarist
- 1961Henrik Jørgensen, Danish marathon runner
- 1961Jodi Benson, American voice actress
- 1961Martin Kemp, British musician (Spandau Ballet) and actor
- 1963Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003)
- 1963Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer
- 1963Vegard Ulvang, Norwegian cross-country skier.
- 1964Crystal Waters, U.S. singer
- 1964Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002)
- 1964Quinton Flynn, American voice actor
- 1964Sarah Lancashire, English actress
- 1965Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1965Rebecca Pidgeon, American actress
- 1965Toshi, Japanese singer (X Japan)
- 1966Bai Ling, Chinese American actress
- 1966Derrick McKey, American basketball player
- 1966Tony Adams, English footballer
- 1967Gavin Newsom, American politician
- 1967Jonathan Littell, French-American writer
- 1967Mike Malinin, American drummer (Goo Goo Dolls)
- 1968Bart Brentjens, Dutch mountain biker
- 1968DJ Skribble, American DJ, producer, remixer, radio personality and actor
- 1968Marinos Ouzounidis, Greek footballer and football manager
- 1969Brett Favre, American football player
- 1969Dilsa Demirbag Sten, Swedish author and journalist
- 1969Francis Escudero, Filipino senator
- 1969Shawn “Thunderbird” Jamison, American basketball coach and ex Harlem Globetrotter
- 1969Wendi McLendon-Covey, American actress
- 1970Corinna May, German singer
- 1970Dean Kiely, Irish footballer
- 1970Matthew Pinsent, English rower
- 1970Mohammed Mourhit, Belgian athlete
- 1970Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, German luger
- 1971Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist
- 1971Ian Bennett, English footballer
- 1972Alexei Zhitnik, Russian ice hockey player
- 1972Dean Roland, American guitarist (Collective Soul)
- 1972Jun Lana, Filipino playwright and screenwriter
- 1972Russell Hantz, American Survivor Contestant
- 1973Mario López, American actor
- 1973Semmy Schilt, Dutch kickboxer
- 1973Zach Thornton, American soccer player
- 1974Assi Cohen, Israeli comedian and actor
- 1974Chris Pronger, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974Dale Earnhardt Jr, American racecar driver
- 1974Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentinian footballer
- 1975Azlan McLennan, Australian artist
- 1975Ihsahn, Norwegian Musician (Emperor band)
- 1975Plácido Polanco, Dominican baseball player
- 1975Ramón Morales, Mexican footballer
- 1976Bob Burnquist, Brazilian-born skateboarder
- 1976Pat Burrell, American baseball player
- 1976Shane Doan, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1978Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, American actress
- 1978Scott Dobie, Scottish footballer
- 1979Ahn Chil Hyun (Kangta), lead singer of the former South Korean group H.O.T.
- 1979Joel Przybilla, American basketball player
- 1979Mya Harrison, American singer
- 1979Nicolás Massú, Chilean tennis player
- 1979Wu Chun, Brunei born Taiwanese actor and singer
- 1980Blaž Emeršič, Slovenian ice hockey player
- 1980Casey FitzSimmons, American football player
- 1980Elvis Hammond, Ghanaian footballer
- 1980Sherine, Egyptian singer
- 1980Tim Maurer, American singer (Suburban Legends)
- 1981Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Mexican footballer
- 1981Michael Oliver, American actor
- 1981Una Healy, Irish singer (The Saturdays)
- 1982Amon Buchanan, Australian rules footballer
- 1982Hideki Mutoh, Japanese racing driver
- 1982Yasser Al-Qahtani, Saudi footballer
- 1983Nikos Spyropoulos, Greek footballer
- 1983Tolga Zengin, Turkish football player
- 1983Vusimuzi Sibanda, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1984Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress
- 1984Paul Posluszny, American football player
- 1984Stephanie Cheng, Hong Kong singer
- 1984Troy Tulowitzki, American baseball player
- 1985Dominique Cornu, Belgian professional cyclist
- 1985Marina Diamandis, Welsh singer/songwriter
- 1986Ezequiel Garay, Argentine footballer
- 1986Nathan Jawai, Australian basketball player
- 1987Colin Slade, New Zealand rugby player
- 1987Ryan Mathews, American football player
- 1988Ideye Aide Brown, Nigerian footballer
- 1989Aimee Teegarden, American actress
- 1991Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer
- 1991Manuel Giandonato, Italian footballer
- 1991Mariana Espósito, Argentine actress, singer and model
- 1991Xherdan Shaqiri, Swiss footballer
- 1993Jayden Stockley, English footballer
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Who Died On October 10?
- 19Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)
- 680Husayn ibn Ali, Shi'a Imam, Muhammad’s grandson (b. 626)
- 732Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia
- 1359King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
- 1459Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist and classicist (b. 1380)
- 1659Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (b. 1603)
- 1674Thomas Traherne, English poet
- 1691Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)
- 1708David Gregory, Scottish mathematician (b. 1659)
- 1714Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (b. 1646)
- 1720Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)
- 1723William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1665)
- 1725Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France (b. 1643)
- 1747John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1674)
- 1759Granville Elliott, British military officer (b. 1713)
- 1765Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
- 1795Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
- 1806Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (b. 1772)
- 1827Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer (b. 1778)
- 1837Charles Fourier, French philosopher (b. 1772)
- 1857George Washington Parke Custis, American orator and playwright (b. 1781)
- 1872William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
- 1875Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
- 1876Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
- 1893Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
- 1901Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
- 1911Jack Daniel, American Distiller and the founder of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey distillery (b. 1846 or 1850)
- 1913Adolphus Busch, American brewer (Anheuser-Busch) (b. 1839)
- 1913Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
- 1914King Carol I of Romania (b. 1839)
- 1922Andreas Karkavitsas, Greek writer (b. 1866)
- 1927Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
- 1930Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
- 1940Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
- 1948Ted Horn, American race car driver (b. 1910)
- 1953Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand judge (b. 1884)
- 1957Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (b. 1885)
- 1962Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian architect and lecturer (b. 1891)
- 1963Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (b. 1893)
- 1964Eddie Cantor, American singer and vaudeville performer (b. 1892)
- 1964Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (b. 1888)
- 1970Édouard Daladier, French politician (b. 1884)
- 1971John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
- 1973Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist (b.1881)
- 1976Silvana Armenulic, Yugoslavian folk singer (b. 1939)
- 1977Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
- 1978Ralph Marterie, American big band leader (b. 1914)
- 1978Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (b. 1910)
- 1979Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
- 1979Paul Paray, French conductor (b. 1886)
- 1982Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
- 1983Ralph Richardson, English actor (b. 1902)
- 1985Orson Welles, American director and actor (b. 1915)
- 1985Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (b. 1920)
- 1986Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
- 1990Nikolaos Pavlopoulos, Greek sculptor and writer (b. 1909)
- 1990Tom Murton, American penologist (b. 1928)
- 1991Mickey Hirschl, Austrian wrestler (b. 1906)
- 1998Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
- 1998Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (b. 1957)
- 2000Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
- 2001Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)
- 2001Vasily Mishin, Soviet rocket designer (b. 1917)
- 2002Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
- 2003Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
- 2004Arthur H. Robinson, American cartographer (b. 1915)
- 2004Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
- 2004Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)
- 2004Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (b. 1932)
- 2005Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
- 2005Wayne Booth, American literary critic (b. 1921)
- 2006Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
- 2006Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
- 2007Mehmed Uzun, contemporary Kurdish writer and novelist (b. 1953)
- 2008Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (b. 1947)
- 2009Stephen Gately, Irish singer (Boyzone) (b. 1976)
- 2010Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano (b. 1926)
- 2010Solomon Burke, American singer (b. 1940)
- 2011Jagjit Singh, Indian Musician, Ghazal Maestro, Padma Bhusan awardee (b. 1941)
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