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Events on the 10th of October in history

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10 Oct 0680 Battle at Kerbela: Kalief Yazid beats pretender al-Hussein
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10 Oct 0680 Battle of Karbala: Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, is decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Muslims as Aashurah.
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10 Oct 0732 Battle 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 Córdoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is killed during the battle.
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10 Oct 1375 Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding Northern Netherlands
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10 Oct 1471 Battle of Brunkeberg Stockholm (Sten Sture beats Christian I)
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10 Oct 1471 Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm: Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by King Christian I of Denmark.
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10 Oct 1549 Duke of Somerset fired as Lord Protector and imprisoned
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10 Oct 1575 Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
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10 Oct 1578 Count Johan Casimir occupies Ghent with 500 horsemen
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10 Oct 1580 Over 600 Papal soldiers land at Dún an Óir, Ireland to support a rebellion.
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10 Oct 1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
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10 Oct 1631 Saxon army occupies Prague
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10 Oct 1631 An Electorate of Saxony army takes over Prague.
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10 Oct 1695 King Willem III escapes South Netherlands, back to England
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10 Oct 1720 French government proclaims strike on banknotes
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10 Oct 1733 France declares war on Emperor Charles VI
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10 Oct 1760 Suriname Colonial Regime signs treaty with Aukaners (ex-slaves)
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10 Oct 1760 In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname – descended from escaped slaves – gain territorial autonomy.
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10 Oct 1780 The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.
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10 Oct 1787 Amsterdam surrenders to Prussian invasion army
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10 Oct 1799 Convention of Alkmaar: English / Russian invasion army departs
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10 Oct 1802 1st non indian settlement in Oklahoma
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10 Oct 1839 British troops under General Charles Napier occupy Beirut
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10 Oct 1845 In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipman students and seven professors.
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10 Oct 1845 The Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis
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10 Oct 1846 Alexis the Tocqueville writes about "Algerian problem"
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10 Oct 1846 Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell.
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10 Oct 1846 Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
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10 Oct 1854 US Assay Office in New York City, New York opens
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10 Oct 1857 American Chess Association formed (NYC)
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10 Oct 1860 The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.
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10 Oct 1863 Skirmish at Blue Springs, Tennessee (166 casualties)
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10 Oct 1865 John Hyatts patents the billiard ball
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10 Oct 1868 1st written account of a Canadian football game
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10 Oct 1868 Carlos Céspedes issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba's independence
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10 Oct 1868 Cuba revolts for independence against Spain
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10 Oct 1868 Declaration of the plan of Yara in Cuba
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10 Oct 1871 The Great Chicago Fire: Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8 to October 10.
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10 Oct 1874 Fiji becomes a British possession
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10 Oct 1886 1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY (the tuxedo)
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10 Oct 1888 Teetotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa)
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10 Oct 1897 German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
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10 Oct 1899 IR Johnson patents bicycle frame
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10 Oct 1904 Boston pitchers achieve 148 complete games-an AL record, also record for total complete games AL 1,098, NL 1,089
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10 Oct 1904 Liberty Theater opens at 234 W 42nd St, New York City
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10 Oct 1904 Yanks 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader game winner Chesbro loses the 1st game & chance at pennant
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10 Oct 1908 Baseball Writers Association, formed
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10 Oct 1910 Tau Epsilon Phi: Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity is founded on the campus of Columbia University in New York City, New York.
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10 Oct 1911 The Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of the Qing dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.
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10 Oct 1911 Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan Nat'l Day)
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10 Oct 1913 British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 kill)
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10 Oct 1913 Yuan Shikai installed as 1st President of China
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10 Oct 1913 United States President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
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10 Oct 1913 Gamboa Dam in Panama blown up; Atlantic & Pacific waters mix
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10 Oct 1914 German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
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10 Oct 1916 In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise the price of World Series grandstand seats to $5-up from $3
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10 Oct 1917 Giants Rube Benton is 1st lefty to pitch a World Series no hitter
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10 Oct 1917 Plymouth Theater opens at 236 W 45th St, New York City
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10 Oct 1919 Richard Strauss and Hugo van Hofmannsthals premieres in Vienna
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10 Oct 1920 1st Grandslam in WS (Smith) and 1st unassisted triple play (Wambsganss)
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10 Oct 1920 Italy annexes South Tirol (Alto Adige)
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10 Oct 1920 The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
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10 Oct 1920 Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play 1st NFL game, a 0-0 tie
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10 Oct 1920 Indian's Bill Wambsganns makes 1st unassisted world series triple play (World Series #17)
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10 Oct 1920 Indian's Elmer Smith hits the 1st world series grand slam (World Series #17)
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10 Oct 1921 NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10
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10 Oct 1923 Saxony gets Social Democratic and Communist coalition government
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10 Oct 1923 NY Giants & NY Yankees become 1st teams to play each other for 3 consecutive World Series, also 1st played at Yankee Stadium (World Series #20)
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10 Oct 1924 Ibn Saud of Nedzhed captures Mecca
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10 Oct 1924 Washington Senators win their 1st World Series beat Giants in 7 (World Series #21)
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10 Oct 1926 St. Louis Cardinals beat the New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 23rd World Series
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10 Oct 1928 Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
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10 Oct 1930 AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP and BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP
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10 Oct 1930 Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years
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10 Oct 1931 St. Louis Cardinals beat Philadelphia Athletics, 4 games to 3 in 28th World Series
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10 Oct 1931 AJ Bennett hits H Garbarino for 1st scoring pass in Canada's Big 4
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10 Oct 1932 "Betty & Bob" premieres on radio
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10 Oct 1932 "Betty & Bob" premiers on radio
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10 Oct 1933 1st synthetic detergent, "Dreft" by Procter and Gamble, goes on sale
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10 Oct 1933 United Airlines Boeing 247 mid-air explosion: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
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10 Oct 1933 1st synthetic detergent for home use marketed
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10 Oct 1935 "Porgy & Bess, " by George Gershwin, New York premiere
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10 Oct 1935 Coup under General Giorgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy
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10 Oct 1935 League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia
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10 Oct 1935 A 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.
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10 Oct 1935 George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway
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10 Oct 1937 New York Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 1 in 34th World Series
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10 Oct 1938 The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
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10 Oct 1938 Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland
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10 Oct 1941 German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney
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10 Oct 1942 1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt
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10 Oct 1942 The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia.
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10 Oct 1943 US bombers accidentally strike Enschede Neth, causing 151 deaths
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10 Oct 1943 Double Tenth Incident in Japanese-controlled Singapore
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10 Oct 1943 Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China
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10 Oct 1944 US takes Okinawa
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10 Oct 1944 Holocaust: Eight hundred Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.
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10 Oct 1945 The 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 Tenth Agreement.
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10 Oct 1945 Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series
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10 Oct 1947 "Allegro" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 318 performances
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10 Oct 1947 "Allegro" opens at the Majestic Theater on Broadway
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10 Oct 1948 Then record 86,288 see game 5 of World Series in Cleveland
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10 Oct 1951 Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in world series, DiMaggio's final game (World Series #48)
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10 Oct 1953 Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington, D.C.
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10 Oct 1954 Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after French troops pulled out
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10 Oct 1956 Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match vs. Aus, Karachi
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10 Oct 1957 Accident at British nuclear reactor in Windsdale
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10 Oct 1957 Milwaukee Braves beat the New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 54th World Series
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10 Oct 1957 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
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10 Oct 1957 The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world's first major nuclear accident.
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10 Oct 1957 Braves' Lew Burdette beats Yankees for 3rd time in 1 world series (World Series #54)
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10 Oct 1959 "Happy Town" closes at 84th St. Theater NYC after 5 performances
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10 Oct 1959 Lee Harvey Oswald signs guestbook in hotel Helsinki
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10 Oct 1959 Pan Am begins regular flights around World
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10 Oct 1960 "Laughs & Other Events" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 8 performances
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10 Oct 1960 16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo
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10 Oct 1960 WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
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10 Oct 1960 Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards
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10 Oct 1961 "Milk & Honey" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 543 performances
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10 Oct 1961 Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros and New York Mets
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10 Oct 1961 Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court
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10 Oct 1962 Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack
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10 Oct 1963 Dam bursts in Italy, 3,000+ die
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10 Oct 1963 Netherland population hits 12,000,000
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10 Oct 1963 France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
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10 Oct 1963 Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by US, UK, USSR
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10 Oct 1964 18th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-2 at Toronto
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10 Oct 1964 The opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite.
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10 Oct 1964 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo
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10 Oct 1965 "Drat! - The Cat!" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 8 performances
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10 Oct 1965 "Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the 1st known map of America, drawn about 1440 by Norse explorer Lief Eriksson
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10 Oct 1965 Supreme appear on Ed Sullivan Show
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10 Oct 1967 Brendan Behans "Norstal Boy, " premieres in Dublin
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10 Oct 1967 The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force.
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10 Oct 1968 Detroit Tigers beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 65th World Series
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10 Oct 1968 George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd
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10 Oct 1968 Lee Evans of the US sets 400 meter record at 43.86
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10 Oct 1970 Fiji becomes independent.
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10 Oct 1970 In Montreal, 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.
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10 Oct 1970 Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)
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10 Oct 1971 5th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Pride wins
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10 Oct 1971 Rain washes out Game 2, 1st World Series postponement since 1962
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10 Oct 1971 Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
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10 Oct 1971 1st game played at Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium, Phils win 4-1
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10 Oct 1972 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open
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10 Oct 1973 New York Mets beat Cin Reds in Game 5 of the NLCS
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10 Oct 1973 Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.
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10 Oct 1973 VP Spiro T Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns
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10 Oct 1974 Canadian John Hathaway begins 2-yr ride of 50,600 miles
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10 Oct 1974 10101975 Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt
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10 Oct 1975 Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
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10 Oct 1975 Liz Taylor's 6th marriage (re-marries Richard Burton)
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10 Oct 1976 NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens
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10 Oct 1976 Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33
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10 Oct 1977 11th Country Music Association Award: Ronnie Milsap wins
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10 Oct 1978 British pop magazine "Smash Hits, " 1st published
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10 Oct 1978 Congress approves Susan B Anthony Dollar
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10 Oct 1978 Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Kenyatta as President of Kenya
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10 Oct 1978 Steve Perry joins Journey
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10 Oct 1978 Yanks and Dodgers play in World Series # 75
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10 Oct 1978 Pres Carter signs a bill authorizing the Susan B Anthony dollar
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10 Oct 1978 Yanks & Dodgers play in 75th World Series
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10 Oct 1979 Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood
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10 Oct 1979 Recorded trace of snow in Central Park, New York City
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10 Oct 1979 Nordiques' Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in 1st game
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10 Oct 1979 Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone)
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10 Oct 1980 A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs in the Algerian town of El Asnam. Around 3,500 die and 300,000 are left homeless.
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10 Oct 1980 FMLN was founded in El Salvador.
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10 Oct 1980 4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria
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10 Oct 1980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated
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10 Oct 1980 Yanks lose 4-2 & are swept by Royals in the AL Championship series
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10 Oct 1981 Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo
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10 Oct 1982 Brewers beat Angels in ALCS
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10 Oct 1982 Hernan Siles Zuazo installed as President of Bolivia
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10 Oct 1982 US imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union
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10 Oct 1982 Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint
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10 Oct 1983 17th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins
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10 Oct 1983 Tom Monaghan becomes CEO of Detroit Tigers
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10 Oct 1983 Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM
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10 Oct 1985 Sudan adopts interim constitution
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10 Oct 1985 United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise ship, and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested.
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10 Oct 1985 US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody
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10 Oct 1986 An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
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10 Oct 1986 7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador
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10 Oct 1986 Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns
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10 Oct 1987 Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love"
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10 Oct 1987 Garfield Park Nature Center opens, latest in Cleveland Metroparks
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10 Oct 1988 22nd Country Music Association Award: Highway 101, K T Oslin win
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10 Oct 1988 Royals announce that Dick Howser, who underwent surgery for a brain tumor in July, will return to manage the club in 1989
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10 Oct 1990 Oakland Athletics sweep Red Sox in 4 games to win ALCS
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10 Oct 1990 US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space
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10 Oct 1991 US cuts all foreign aid to Haiti
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10 Oct 1991 Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers
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10 Oct 1991 Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy
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10 Oct 1992 Actress Ally Sheedy weds actor David Lansbury
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10 Oct 1992 Actress Heather Thomas weds entertainment lawyer Skip Brittenham
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10 Oct 1992 Floriade (Flower Show) closes at the Hague, Netherlands
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10 Oct 1993 Browns Najee Mustafaa sets club rec for longest interception (97 yards)
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10 Oct 1993 Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed
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10 Oct 1993 Ted Kennedy Jr (32) weds psychiatrist Katherine Gershman (34)
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10 Oct 1994 MPAA chief Jack Valenti holds meeting to determine new movie ratings
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10 Oct 1994 Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred Gilman and Martin Rodbell
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10 Oct 1994 Value of Russian ruble decreases, 3081 rubles per dollar
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10 Oct 1995 "Garden District" opens at Circle in the Square Theater, New York City
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10 Oct 1995 Israel begins W Bank pullback, frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
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10 Oct 1995 Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits
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10 Oct 1995 Robert E Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics
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10 Oct 1996 "Sex & Longing" opens at Cort Theater, New York City
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10 Oct 1996 Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum in New York City
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10 Oct 1997 An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
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10 Oct 1998 A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
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10 Oct 2008 The 2008 Orakzai bombing kills 110 and injures 200 more.
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10 Oct 2009 Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.
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10 Oct 2010 The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.
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10 Oct 2010 Cable channel The Hub made its debut in the United States.
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