October 10

October 10th is the 283th day of 2022. This year, it will be a Monday which will be in week 42. We will be the 10th of October 2022 in a month.

Libra

Zodiac sign

October 9th October 11th October

What happened that day?

2015: Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara near the main train station leave at least 102 people dead and over 400 wounded.
2010: The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.
2009: Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.
1998: A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
1997: An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
1986: The 5.7 Mw San Salvador earthquake shook San Salvador, El Salvador with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to 1,500 people were killed.
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.
1980: FMLN is founded in El Salvador.
1980: The 7.1 Mw El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme); at least 2,633 people were killed and 8,369 were injured.
1975: Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
1973: Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.
1971: Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
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.
1970: Fiji becomes independent.
1967: The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force.
1964: The opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary satellite.
1963: The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty comes into effect.
1963: France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
1957: The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world's first major nuclear accident.
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.
1953: A Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington, D.C.
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.
1938: The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
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.
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.
1928: Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
1920: The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
1913: United States President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, ending construction on the Panama Canal.
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.
1903: The Women's Social and Political Union was founded by Emmeline Pankhurst
1897: German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
1871: Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8-10.
1868: Carlos Céspedes issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba's independence
1846: Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell.
1845: In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipman students and seven professors.
1780: The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean.
1760: In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname - descended from escaped slaves - gain territorial autonomy.
1631: An Electorate of Saxony army takes over Prague.
1582: Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1580: Over 600 Papal troops land at Dún an Óir, Ireland to support the Second Desmond Rebellion.
1575: Roman Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
1471: Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by King Christian I of Denmark.
732: Battle of [Tours](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Tours): A force commanded by Charles Martel defeats an army of the Umayyad Caliphate between Poitiers and Tours in western France.
680: 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.