SomeFacts | October 10

On this day - October 10

19 — The Roman general Germanicus dies near Antioch. He was convinced ...

680 — The Battle of Karbala marks the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali.

732 — Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, ...

1471 — Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of ...

1492 — The crew of Christopher Columbus's ship, the Santa Maria, ...

1575 — Roman Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise, defeat the ...

1580 — Over 600 Papal troops land in Ireland to support the Second ...

1760 — In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka ...

1780 — The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the ...

1814 — War of 1812: The United States Revenue Marine attempts to ...

1845 — In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later the United ...

1846 — Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered ...

1868 — The Ten Years' War begins against Spanish rule in Cuba.

1903 — The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in ...

1911 — The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang ...

1913 — U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the ...

1918 — RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the ...

1920 — The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of ...

1928 — Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.

1933 — A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the ...

1935 — In Greece, a coup d'état ends the Second Hellenic ...

1938 — Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its ...

1945 — The Double Tenth Agreement is signed by the Communist Party ...

1954 — The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Muscat, ...

1957 — The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear ...

1957 — U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian ...

1963 — The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty comes into effect.

1963 — France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.

1964 — The Tokyo Summer Olympics opening ceremony is the first to be ...

1967 — The Outer Space Treaty comes into force.

1969 — King Crimson releases their debut album, In the Court of the ...

1970 — Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec Vice ...

1970 — Fiji becomes independent.

1971 — Aeroflot Flight 773 is destroyed by a bomb over Moscow Oblast, ...

1973 — U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged ...

1975 — Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.

1979 — The Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant began operations in ...

1980 — The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is founded in El ...

1980 — The 7.1 Mw El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, ...

1985 — US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the ...

1986 — A 5.7 Mw San Salvador earthquake shakes El Salvador, killing ...

1997 — Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in ...

1998 — A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels ...

2002 — Iraq War: The United States Congress approves the ...

2007 — Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor becomes the first Malaysian in space ...

2009 — Armenia and Turkey sign the Zurich Protocols, intended to ...

2010 — The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.

2015 — Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara kill 109 and ...

2018 — The National Fire and Rescue Administration is founded, ...

2018 — Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a ...

2022 — Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig are ...