Today in History
October 10 - Today in History
By Staff
Oct 10, 2008 - 12:00:00 AM

0413 - Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57
0680 - Battle at Kerbela: Kalief Yazid beats pretender al-Hussein, who is killed
0680 - Hussein, grandson of prophet Mohammed, beheaded
1375 - Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands
1471 - Battle of Brunkeberg Stockholm (Sten Sture beats Christian I)
1549 - Duke of Somerset fired as Lord Protector & imprisoned
1578 - Count Johan Casimir occupies Ghent with 500 horsemen
1631 - Saxon army occupies Prague
1695 - King Willem III escapes South Netherlands, back to England
1720 - French govt proclaims strike on banknotes
1733 - France declares war on emperor Charles VI
1760 - Suriname Colonial Regime signs treaty with Aukaners (ex-slaves)
1780 - Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean
1787 - Amsterdam surrenders to Prussian invasion army
1797 - Carter Braxton, US boer/signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 61
1799 - Convention of Alkmaar: English/Russian invasion army departs
1802 - First non Indian settlement in Oklahoma
1839 - British troops under Gen Charles Napier occupy Beirut
1845 - The Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis
1846 - Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
1854 - US Assay Office in New York City, NY opens
1857 - American Chess Association formed (NYC)
1863 - Skirmish at Blue Springs, Tennessee (166 casualties)
1865 - John Hyatts patents the billiard ball
1868 - First written account of a Canadian football game
1868 - Cuba revolts for independence against Spain
1868 - Declaration of the plan of Yara in Cuba
1874 - Fiji becomes a British possession
1886 - First dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY (the tuxedo)
1888 - Teetotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa)
1904 - Yanks 2 games out play first place Red Sox on final day doubleheader game winner Chesbro loses the first game & chance at pennant
1908 - Baseball Writers Association, formed
1911 - Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan Nat'l Day)
1913 - Gamboa Dam in Panama blown up; Atlantic & Pacific waters mix
1914 - German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
1920 - Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play first NFL game, a 0-0 tie
1920 - Indian's Bill Wambsganns makes first unassisted world series triple play (World Series #17)
1920 - Indian's Elmer Smith hits the first world series grand slam (World Series #17)
1921 - NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10
1923 - NY Giants & NY Yankees become first teams to play each other for 3 consecutive World Series, also first played at Yankee Stadium (World Series #20)
1924 - Washington Senators win their first World Series beat Giants in 7 (World Series #21)
1926 - St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 23rd World Series
1931 - AJ Bennett hits H Garbarino for first scoring pass in Canada's Big 4 1931 St Louis Cards beat Phila A's, 4 games to 3 in 28th World Series
1932 - "Betty & Bob" premiers on radio
1933 - First synthetic detergent for home use marketed
1935 - George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway
1937 - NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 1 in 34th World Series
1938 - Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland
1943 - Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China
1945 - Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series
1947 - "Allegro" opens at the Majestic Theater on Broadway
1951 - Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in world series, DiMaggio's final game (World Series #48)
1957 - Braves' Lew Burdette beats Yankees for 3rd time in 1 world series (World Series #54)
1957 - Milwaukee Braves beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 53rd World Series
1957 - Pres Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant
1960 - Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards
1961 - Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court
1963 - Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by US, UK, USS
1964 - 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo
1968 - Detroit Tigers beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 65th World Series
1968 - George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd
1968 - Lee Evans of the US sets 400 meter record at 43.86
1970 - Edouard Daladier, premier of France (1933..40), dies at 86
1970 - Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1971 - First game played at Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium, Phils win 4-1
1973 - VP Spiro T Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns
1974 - Canadian John Hathaway begins 2-yr ride of 50,600 miles
1974 - 10101975 Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt
1975 - Liz Taylor's 6th marriage (re-marries Richard Burton)
1976 - NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens
1976 - Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33
1978 - British pop magazine "Smash Hits," first published
1978 - President Carter signs a bill authorizing the Susan B Anthony dollar
1978 - Yanks & Dodgers play in 75th World Series
1979 - Nordiques' Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in first gam
1979 - Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone)
1980 - William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascal), dies at 49
1980 - 4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria
1980 - Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated
1980 - Yanks lose 4-2 & are swept by Royals in the AL Championship series
1981 - Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo
1982 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint
1983 - Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM
1985 - Orson Welles, actor/dir (Citizen Kane), dies of heart attack at 70
1985 - US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody
1986 - 7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador
1986 - Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns
1987 - Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love"
1990 - US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space
1991 - Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers
1991 - Redd Foxx, comedian (Sanford & Sons), dies of heart attack at 68
1991 - Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy
1992 - Floriade (Flower Show) closes at the Hague, Netherlands
1993 - Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed
1994 - Lt. General Raoul Cedras resigns as dictator of Haiti
1996 - Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum in NYC
1997 - An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74
2005 - Negotiations between the CDU/CSU and SPD in Germany had concluded that both parties would form a grand coaltion with Angela Merkel of the CDU as chancellor after both parties lost seats in the 2005 German federal election. She was subsequently elected in the Bundestag as chancellor on November 22 of the same year

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