October 10

Monday 10, 2005:

Channel 4's new documentary channel More4 starts broadcasting on ntl, Sky Digital and Freeview in the UK.

Wednesday 10, 2001:

US President George W. Bush presents a list of 22 most wanted terrorists.

Friday 10, 1997:

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

Saturday 10, 1987:

Fiji becomes a republic.

Friday 10, 1986:

An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.

Thursday 10, 1985:

United 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.

Wednesday 10, 1979:

The Pac-Man arcade game is released to the Japanese market by Namco.

Tuesday 10, 1978:

US President Jimmy Carter signs a bill into law that authorizes the minting of the Susan B. Anthony dollar.

Wednesday 10, 1973:

Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.

Sunday 10, 1971:

Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, the London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.

Saturday 10, 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.

Monday 10, 1966:

Simon and Garfunkel release the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.

Saturday 10, 1964:

The 1964 Summer Olympics open in Tokyo, Japan

Thursday 10, 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.

Tuesday 10, 1944:

Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are systematically murdered at Auschwitz death camp.

Monday 10, 1938:

World War II: The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Germany.

Tuesday 10, 1933:

A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage while en route from Cleveland, Ohio to Chicago, Illinois, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.

Sunday 10, 1920:

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

Friday 10, 1913:

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.

Tuesday 10, 1911:

Wuchang Uprising which led to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last emperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.

Monday 10, 1910:

Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity is established at Columbia University.

Saturday 10, 1908:

Baseball Writers Association forms.

Wednesday 10, 1877:

Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer is given a funeral with full military honors.

Saturday 10, 1868:

Carlos Céspedes issued the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba's independence.

Friday 10, 1845:

In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors.

Tuesday 10, 1780:

The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in Caribbean.

Friday 10, 1631:

A Saxon army take over Prague.

Sunday 10, 1582:

Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

Friday 10, 1575:

Battle of Dormans: Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeated the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.

Tuesday 10, 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.

Monday 10, 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, Abd-ar-Rahman, is killed during the battle.

Sunday 10, 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.

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