Today in History

    What happened on the 10th of October in history?

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    • 1845
      US Naval academy opens at Annapolis Maryland
    • 1846
      Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
    • 1886
      1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park NY (the tuxedo)
    • 1904
      Yanks 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader. Also 41 game winner Chesbro loses the 1st game & chance at pennent
    • 1911
      China Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew Manchu dynasty
    • 1913
      Pacific & Atl mix as engineers blow Gamboa Dam opening Panama Canal
    • 1920
      Bill Wambsganns unassisted world series triple play
    • 1933
      1st synthetic detergent for home use marketed
    • 1935
      George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess opens in NY
    • 1937
      Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 1 in the world series
    • 1938
      Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
    • 1943
      Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.
    • 1951
      Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in the world series
    • 1956
      On Skowron's grand slammer Yanks beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7
    • 1957
      Pres Eisenhower apologized to finance minister of Ghana Komla Agbeli Gbdemah after he was refused service in a Dover Del. restaurant
    • 1957
      Braves Lew Burdette beats Yankees 3 times in 1 world series
    • 1960
      Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards.
    • 1963
      treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by US UK USSR.
    • 1964
      18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo.
    • 1970
      Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day).
    • 1973
      VP Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns.
    • 1973
      Vice-Pres. Agnew resigns after conviction for income-tax evasion.
    • 1975
      Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt
    • 1976
      NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens
    • 1978
      Yanks & Dodgers play in World Series # 75
    • 1978
      Pres Carter signs a bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
    • 1980
      4 500 people die when a pair of earthquakes struck NW Algeria
    • 1980
      Yanks lost 4-2 & are swept by Royals in the AL Championship series
    • 1980
      Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated
    • 1982
      Pope John Paul II proclaimed Rev. M Kolbe who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp a saint
    • 1985
      US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy gunmen were placed in custody