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Historical Events - October 10
2001:
US President George W. Bush presents a list of 22 most wanted terrorists.
1987:
Fiji becomes a republic.
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.
1979:
The Pac-Man arcade game is released to the Japanese market by Namco.
1978:
US President Jimmy Carter signs a bill into law that authorizes the minting of the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
1973:
Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
1971:
Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, the London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
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.
1966:
Simon and Garfunkel release the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
1964:
The 1964 Summer Olympics open in Tokyo, Japan
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.
1944:
Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are systematically murdered at Auschwitz death camp.
1938:
World War II: The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Germany.
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.
1920:
The Carinthian Plebiscite determined that the larger part of Carinthia became part of Austria.
1913:
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
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.
1910:
Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity is established at Columbia University.
1908:
Baseball Writers Association forms.
1877:
Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer is given a funeral with full military honors.
1868:
Carlos Céspedes issued the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba's independence.
1845:
In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors.
1780:
The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in Caribbean.
1631:
A Saxon army take over Prague.
1582:
Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1575:
Battle of Dormans: Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeated the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
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.
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.
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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