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10 October, 1997
An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
10 October, 1995
South African President Nelson Mandela attends Genadendal.
10 October, 1986
An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
10 October, 1985
United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijackers and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested.
10 October, 1979
The Pac-Man arcade game is released to the Japanese market by Namco.
10 October, 1973
Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
10 October, 1971
Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, the London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
10 October, 1970
Fiji becomes independent. In Montreal, Quebec, 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.
10 October, 1969
King Crimson releases their debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King, considered by many to be the first progressive rock album.
10 October, 1967
The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, enters into force.
10 October, 1963
France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
10 October, 1957
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he was refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant. The Windscale fire in Cumbria, UK becomes the worlds first major nuclear accident.
10 October, 1954
The Communist Party of Honduras is founded.
10 October, 1944
Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are systematically murdered at Auschwitz death camp.
10 October, 1938
The Blue Water Bridge opens, connecting Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario. The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
10 October, 1935
A tornado destroys the 160 metre tall wooden radio tower in Langenberg. As a result of this catastrophe, few wooden towers are constructed after this date.
10 October, 1933
United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
10 October, 1920
The Carinthian Plebiscite determines that the larger part of Carinthia became part of Austria.
10 October, 1919
Richard Strauss opera Die Frau ohne Schatten receives its debut performance in Vienna.
10 October, 1913
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
10 October, 1911
Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China. The KCR East Rail commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
10 October, 1910
Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity is established at Columbia University.
10 October, 1889
Barnard College is founded.
10 October, 1868
Carlos Céspedes issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cubas independence.
10 October, 1860
The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.
10 October, 1845
In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors.
10 October, 1780
The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean.
10 October, 1631
A Saxon army takes over Prague.
10 October, 1582
Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
10 October, 1575
Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeated the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
10 October, 1471
Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm: Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark.
10 October, 732
Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, 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 Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is killed during the battle.
10 October, 680
Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Shia Muslims as Aashurah.

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