About October 10
October 10, 2024 is the 284th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 82 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 111 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 10
- 732 –Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, the 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.
- 1471 –Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm: Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark.
- 1575 –Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1631 –A Saxon army takes over Prague.
- 1780 –The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean.
- 1845 –In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipman students and seven professors.
- 1928 –Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
- 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.
- 1942 –The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia.
- 1957 –U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
- 1963 –France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
- 1967 –The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force.
- 1970 –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.
- 1997 –An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
- 1998 –A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
- 2006 –The Greek city of Volos floods in one of the prefecture’s worst recorded floods.
- 2008 –The 10 October 2008 Orakzai bombing kills 110 and injures 200 more.
- 2009 –Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.
- 2010 –The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.
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