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Birthday October 10, 1731 Henry Cavendish, English physicist, chemist |
Birthday October 10, 1738 Benjamin West, painter |
Birthday October 10, 1813 Giuseppe Verdi, composer of operas (Rigoletto, Aida, Otello) |
Birthday October 10, 1830 Emily Dickinson, poet |
Birthday October 10, 1861 Fridtjof Nansen, Norweg. Arctic explorer, humanitarian (Nobel 1922) |
Birthday October 10, 1892 Ivo Andric, Yugoslav novelist (Bridge on the Drina) (Nobel '61) |
Birthday October 10, 1895 Lin Yu-t'ang, Chinese writer (My Country & My People) |
Birthday October 10, 1900 Helen Hayes, Actress (Caesar & Cleopatra, Happy Birthday) |
Birthday October 10, 1924 James Clavell, author (Tai Pan, Shogun) |
Birthday October 10, 1930 Harold Pinter, playwright |
Birthday October 10, 1930 Adlai Stevenson III, (D-Sen-Ill) |
Birthday October 10, 1946 Ben Vereen, dancer, Actor, singer |
Birthday October 10, 1955 David Lee Roth, rocker |
Birthday October 10, 1958 Tanya Tucker, in Seminole Texas, country singer |
History October 10, 0732 Battle of Tours |
History October 10, 1775 Howe named commander in chief of British army |
History October 10, 1780 Great Hurricane ravages West Indies |
History October 10, 1845 Birth of the U.S. Naval Academy |
History October 10, 1845 US Naval academy opens at Annapolis Maryland |
History October 10, 1846 Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell |
History October 10, 1862 John Bankhead Magruder sent to Texas |
History October 10, 1877 Custer's funeral is held at West Point |
History October 10, 1881 Darwin publishes work on mold and worms |
History October 10, 1886 1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park NY (the tuxedo) |
History October 10, 1904 Yanks 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader. Also 41 game winner Chesbro loses the 1st game & chance at pennent |
History October 10, 1911 China Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew Manchu dynasty |
History October 10, 1913 Pacific & Atl mix as engineers blow Gamboa Dam opening Panama Canal |
History October 10, 1916 Eighth Battle of the Isonzo |
History October 10, 1920 Bill Wambsganns unassisted world series triple play |
History October 10, 1933 1st synthetic detergent for home use marketed |
History October 10, 1935 Porgy and Bess, the first great American opera, premieres on Broadway |
History October 10, 1935 George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess opens in NY |
History October 10, 1937 Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 1 in the world series |
History October 10, 1938 Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. |
History October 10, 1943 Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China. |
History October 10, 1944 Eight hundred children are gassed to death at Auschwitz |
History October 10, 1951 Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in the world series |
History October 10, 1951 Truman signs Mutual Security Act |
History October 10, 1956 On Skowron's grand slammer Yanks beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7 |
History October 10, 1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to African diplomat |
History October 10, 1957 Braves beat the Yanks to win World Series |
History October 10, 1957 Pres Eisenhower apologized to finance minister of Ghana Komla Agbeli Gbdemah after he was refused service in a Dover Del. restaurant |
History October 10, 1957 Braves Lew Burdette beats Yankees 3 times in 1 world series |
History October 10, 1960 Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards. |
History October 10, 1963 treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by US UK USSR. |
History October 10, 1964 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo. |
History October 10, 1965 1st Cavalry Division commences operations |
History October 10, 1969 U.S. Navy transfers vessels to South Vietnamese |
History October 10, 1970 Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day). |
History October 10, 1970 October Crisis in Canada |
History October 10, 1973 VP Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns. |
History October 10, 1973 Vice President Agnew resigns |
History October 10, 1973 Vice-Pres. Agnew resigns after conviction for income-tax evasion. |
History October 10, 1975 Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt |
History October 10, 1976 NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens |
History October 10, 1978 Yanks & Dodgers play in World Series # 75 |
History October 10, 1978 Pres Carter signs a bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar. |
History October 10, 1980 4 500 people die when a pair of earthquakes struck NW Algeria |
History October 10, 1980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated |
History October 10, 1980 Yanks lost 4-2 & are swept by Royals in the AL Championship series |
History October 10, 1982 Pope John Paul II proclaimed Rev. M Kolbe who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp a saint |
History October 10, 1985 US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy gunmen were placed in custody |
History October 10, 1987 Whitesnake's iconic video features Jaguars |
History October 10, 1991 A former postal worker commits mass murder |
History October 10, 2004 Superman Christopher Reeve dies at age 52 |