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Today in History ~ October 10
National Day, celebrated in Taiwan.
Events0732 - End of Battle of Tours [H]
1631 - Saxon army occupies Prague
1780 - Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean
1793 - Rebellious French city of Lyons surrenders to Revolutionary troops
1802 - 1st non-Indian settlement in Oklahoma
1845 - Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Fort Severn, Annapolis, Md. with fifty midshipmen students and seven professors
1846 - Alexis the Tocqueville writes about "Algerian problem"
1846 - Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
1857 - American Chess Association formed (NYC)
1863 - Skirmish at Blue Springs, Tennessee (166 casualties)
1865 - John Hyatts patents billard ball
1868 - Cuba revolts for independence against Spain
1874 - Fiji becomes a British possession
1886 - The tuxedo dinner jacket designed by Griswold Lorillard made its American debut at the autumn ball in Tuxedo Park, New York.
1899 - IR Johnson patents bicycle frame
1911 - Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan Natl Day)
1913 - British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 kill)
1913 - Panama Canal Completed when President Woodrow Wilson triggered the blast which exploded the Gamboa Dike by pressing an electric button at the White House in Washington, D.C.
1931 - William Walton's "Belshazzar's Feast," premieres in Leeds
1932 - Dnjepr Dam in USSR put into operation (world's biggest)
1933 - 1st synthetic detergent, "Dreft" by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale
1935 - George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway
1938 - Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland
1941 - German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney
1942 - 1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt
1943 - Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China
1944 - US takes Okinawa
1947 - Rodgers' & Hammerstein's musical "Allegro," premieres in NYC
1954 - Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after French troops withdraw
1957 - Pres Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant
1959 - First to offer regular flights around world, Pan American.
1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald signs guestbook in hotel Helsinki
1960 - Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die
1963 - A dam burst in northern Italy, drowning an estimated 3,000 people.
1965 - "Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the 1st known map of America, drawn about 1440 by Norse explorer Lief Eriksson
1967 - Brendan Behan's "Norstal Boy," premieres in Dublin
1970 - October Crisis, the Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ), a militant separatist group, kidnaps Quebec labor minister Pierre Laporte (Laporte's body was found about a week later.)
1973 - VP Spiro T Agnew under an agreement with the Justice Department to plead no contest (nolo contendere) to income tax evasion charge resigned First US Vice President to resign in disgrace. [H]
1974 - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1975 - Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt
1975 - Liz Taylor's 6th marriage (re-marries Richard Burton)
1976 - Beijing reports arrest of Mao Tse Tung's widow
1976 - NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens
1978 - Congress approves Susan B Anthony Dollar
1978 - President Carter signed a bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
1979 - Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone)
1980 - 4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria
1981 - Funeral services were held in Cairo for Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat, who had been assassinated by Muslim extremists.
1982 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, controversial racist priest who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint
1982 - US imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union
1983 - Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM
1985 - US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro (started on October 7) to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody
1986 - Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns
1991 - Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers
1991 - Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy
1991 - The Senate Judiciary Committee prepared to re-open the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, accused of sexual harassment by former aide Anita Hill.
1991 - The United States cut all aid to Haiti, including $90 million funneled through the Agency for International Development.
1993 - Greek voters returned former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou and his Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement to power.
1994 - MPAA chief Jack Valenti holds meeting to determine new movie ratings
1994 - Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras, commander-in-chief of the Haitian armed forces, resigned to make way for the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1995 - Israel freed some 900 Palestinian prisoners and pulled its troops out of four towns as the second phase of the peace plan was implemented on the West Bank.
1996 - President Clinton joined Vice President Al Gore in Knoxville, Tenn., where the president moved to broaden the sweep of the Internet at 100 universities, national labs and other federal institutions.
1997 - It was announced that the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize would be awarded to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and its coordinator, Jody Williams of Putney, Vt.
1997 - The major tobacco companies agreed to a settlement in the class-action suit brought against them by 60,000 present and former flight attendants, who claimed second-hand smoke in airplanes had caused them to get cancer and other diseases.
2000 - Americans Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid and Japan's Hideki Shirakawa won the Nobel Prize in chemistry; Russian Zhores I. Alferov and U.S.-based researchers Herbert Kroemer and Jack Kilby won the Nobel Prize in physics.
2000 - Jo Myong Rok, the highest-level North Korean official to visit Washington to date, met with President Clinton at the White House.
2001 - Representatives of 56 Islamic nations, in an emergency meeting on Qatar, condemned the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S.
2002 - Former President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize. He was cited for his efforts to bring peace to the Middle East and his commitment to human rights and democratic values around the world.
Birthdays Today
1684 - Jean Antoine Watteau, French rococo painter (Onverschillige)
1713 - Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer
1731 - Henry Cavendish, England, physicist/chemist (discovered hydrogen)
1738 - Benjamin West, painter (Death of General Wolfe)
1813 - Guiseppe Verdi (composer: Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Aida)
1823 - Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, composer
1865 - Raffaele Merry del Val, Spanish cardinal
1876 - Walter Niemann, composer
1900 - Helen Brown (later Helen Hayes), was born in Washington, D.C. Tony Awards include: Best Dramatic Actress in 1947 for "Happy Birthday", and again in 1958 for "Time Remembered". Helen Hayes talents were recognized on movie screens (Hayes appeared in films as early as 1927) as she received an Academy Award for Best Actress for her first major role: "The Sin of Madelon Claudet" in 1931, and forty years later for Best Supporting Actress in "Airport".
1901 - Albert Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor
1908 - Johnny Green (songwriter: Coquette, Body and Soul, I'm Yours, [You Came Along from] Out of Nowhere, I Cover the Waterfront, Easy Come, Easy Go; won five Oscars for work on MGM films: Easter Parade, West Side Story, Oliver, An American in Paris, Bye Bye Birdie, High Society, Raintree County, The Great Caruso, Summer Stock, Brigadoon)
1914 - Ivory Joe Hunter (singer, musician: piano: Since I Met You Baby, I Almost Lost My Mind, I Need You So; songwriter: Ain't That Loving You Baby, My Wish Come True, Blues at Sunrise)
1917 - Thelonious Monk (composer, jazz musician: piano: Round Midnight, Misterioso, Straight No Chaser, Blue Monk, Epistrophy)
1924 - Edward D Wood Jr, Poughkeepsie NY, director (Plan 9 from Outer Space)
1924 - James Clavell (author: Shogun, Noble House, Tai-pan, Gai-Jin)
1926 - Richard Jaeckel (actor: Come Back Little Sheba, The Devil's Brigade, The Dirty Dozen, The Drowning Pool, Sands of Iwo Jima, Starman, Walking Tall, Part 2, Supercarrier, Spenser: For Hire, Frontier Circus, Baywatch)
1930 - Harold Pinter (playwright: The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Quiller Memorandum, The Trial, The Comfort of Strangers)
1937 - Bruce Devlin (golfer)
1941 - Dallas Smith (hockey)
1943 - Joe Don Looney (football)
1944 - Joanna Shimkus (actress: The Virgin and the Gypsy, Les Aventuriers, Six in Paris)
1946 - Ben Vereen (singer, dancer, Tony Award-winning actor: Pippin; All that Jazz, Funny Lady, Webster, Roots, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, Ben Vereen...Comin' at Ya; TV host: You Write the Songs)
1946 - Gene Tenace (baseball: Oakland A's catcher: World Series [1972])
1946 - John Prine (singer, songwriter: Sam Stone; LPs: Common Sense, Aimless Love)
1948 - 'Pistol' Pete Mahovalich (hockey)
1950 - Midge (James) Ure (singer, songwriter: Do They Know It's Christmas?; groups: Slik, Rich Kids)
1951 - Don Smith (basketball)
1955 - David Lee Roth (singer: group: Van Halen: Jump, Eat 'Em and Smile; solo: California Girls, Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody, Yankee Rose, Just Like Paradise)
1956 - Martina Navratilova (tennis champion: Australian Open [1981, 1983, 1985], French Open [1982, 1984], Wimbledon [1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990], U.S. Open [1983, 1984, 1986, 1987]; International Women's Sports Hall of Famer)
1958 - Tanya Tucker (singer: Delta Dawn, Lizzie and the Rainman, San Antonio Stroll, Here's Some Love, Texas (When I Die), Pecos Promenade; in film: Jeremiah Johnson)
1969or 70- Brett Favre, NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl XXXI)
Famous deaths
0019 - Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commandant of Rijnleger, dies at 33
0413 - Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57
0680 - Hussein, grandson of prophet Mohammed, beheaded
0732 - Abd ar-Rahman, Yemenite general strategist (Bordeaux occupier), dies in Battle of Tours
1659 - Able J Tasmania, navigator/discovered (Tasmania, NZ), dies at about 56
1789 - Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer, dies at 34
1970 - Edouard Daladier, premier of France (1933..40), dies at 86
1979 - Paul Paray, French composer, dies at 93
1985 - Orson Welles, actor/dir (Citizen Kane), dies of heart attack at 70
1985 - Yul Brynner, [Taidje Khan], actor (King & I), dies of lung cancer at 65
1994 - Anna Hauptmann, wife of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno, dies at 95
1995 - Paolo Gucci, entrepreneur/accessories designer, dies at 64
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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