October 10: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

October 10th marks the 283rd day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 284th in case of leap years). There are 82 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Libra. Famous birthdays on this day include Marina Lambrini Diamandis (1985), Mario López (1973) and Alberto Giacometti (1901). Holidays and observances around the world include: World Mental Health Day [WHO].
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2018 A bus travelling from Nairobi, Kenya to Kisumu crashes into a tree and causes the deaths of at least 51 people.
2017 2017 North Korea crisis: A South Korean lawmaker asserts that North Korean hackers stole classified military records detailing joint operations between South Korean and United States forces in case of war with North Korea in 2016.
2016 Afghanistan War (2001-present). A suicide bomber kills at most 14 people, mostly police officers in Lashkargah in Helmand Province as Taliban insurgents advance on the Afghan city. (Reuters) A gunman shoots down 14 people at a Shiite shrine in Kabul, on a holy day.
2015 After several violent riots in Israel and the West Bank, 3 rockets were fired by Palestinian militants at Israel.
2014 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: ISIL forces seize the headquarters of Kurdish forces protecting the Syrian border town of Kobane, with the United Nations warning of mass murder.
2013 Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was kidnapped in Tripoli from a hotel. He was later freed.
2012 Civil war in Syria: Rebels seize control of Maarrat al-Nu'man, a strategic town on the main road connecting Damascus and Aleppo.
2011 Marzieh Vafamehr, an Iranian actress, is sentenced to 90lashes of the cane for her role in "My Tehran For Sale" which critiques the Government of Iran's harsh policies regarding the arts.
2010 The Netherlands Antilles have been disintegrated.
2009 After closing their borders for nearly two hundred years, Turkey and Armenia sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland, to open their borders.
2008 110 people were killed and 200 injured in the Orakzai bombing on October 10, 2008.
2007 The US House of Representatives passed a resolution calling for the Ottoman empire to slaughter Armenians during the 1915-1923 genocide.
2006 Google purchases YouTube for US$1.65 Billion
2005 New Orleans: New Orleans: Three New Orleans officers are accused of nearly killing Robert Davis and assaulting the cameraman who recorded the incident. Louisiana police are investigating claims that 200 cars were stolen by New Orleans police (41 Cadillacs). (Yahoo). Widespread suicide and desertion among New Orleans police officers have been reported after Hurricane Katrina.
2004 Six people are killed by Typhoon Maon in Tokyo, which is the strongest storm to hit eastern Japan in a decade.
2003 Nobel Prize: Shirin Ebadi (Iran human rights lawyer) is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
2002 France confirmed that the explosion onboard the French oil tanker "Limburg" off Yemen's coast was a terrorist act.
2001 The 22 most wanted terrorists are listed by President George W. Bush.
1999 Elections are held in Portugal.
1998 A Lignes Aeriennes Congolaises Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
1997 An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
1996 Sex & Longing opens at Cort Theater, New York City
1995 Garden District opens at Circle in the Square Theater, New York City
1994 MPAA chief Jack Valenti holds meeting to determine new movie ratings
1993 Browns Najee Mustafaa sets club rec for longest interception
1992 Actress Ally Sheedy weds actor David Lansbury
1991 US cuts all foreign aid to Haiti
1990 Oakland Athletics sweep Red Sox in 4 games to win ALCS
1988 22nd Country Music Association Award: Highway 101, K T Oslin win
1987 Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album Tunnel of Love
1986 7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador
1985 Sudan adopts interim constitution
1983 17th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins
1982 Brewers beat Angels in ALCS
1980 4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria
1979 Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood
1978 British pop magazine Smash Hits, 1st published
1977 11th Country Music Association Award: Ronnie Milsap wins
1976 New Jersey Meadowlands' (New York Giants) Stadium opens.
1975 Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt.
1974 Canadian John Hathaway begins two-year ride of 50,600 miles.
1973 New York Mets beat Cin Reds in Game 5 of the NLCS
1972 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open
1971 5th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Pride wins
1970 Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day).
1968 George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd
1967 Brendan Behans Norstal Boy, premieres in Dublin
1965 Drat! - The Cat! opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 8 performances
1964 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo
1963 Dam bursts in Italy, 3,000+ die
1962 Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack
1961 Milk & Honey opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 543 performances
1960 Laughs & Other Events opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 8 performances
1959 Happy Town closes at 84th St. Theater NYC after 5 performances
1957 Accident at British nuclear reactor in Windsdale
1956 Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match vs. Aus, Karachi
1954 Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after French troops pulled out
1953 Roland (Monty) Burton wins New Zealand air race in under 23 hours.
1949 3rd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Toronto
1948 Then record 86,288 see game 5 of World Series in Cleveland
1947 Allegro opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 318 performances
1946 Commencement of the Noakhali genocide of Hindus in Bengal at the hands of Muslim mobs.
1945 Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series.
1944 US takes Okinawa
1943 US bombers accidentally strike Enschede Neth, causing 151 deaths
1942 1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt
1941 German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney
1937 New York Yankees beat New York Giants four games to one in 34th World Series.
1935 Porgy & Bess, by George Gershwin, New York premiere
1933 1st synthetic detergent, Dreft by Procter and Gamble, goes on sale
1932 Betty & Bob premieres on radio
1930 AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP and BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP
1924 Ibn Saud of Nedzhed captures Mecca
1923 Saxony gets Social Democratic and Communist coalition government
1921 NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10.
1920 1st Grandslam in WS (Smith) and 1st unassisted triple play (Wambsganss)
1919 Richard Strauss and Hugo van Hofmannsthals premieres in Vienna
1917 Giants Rube Benton is 1st lefty to pitch a World Series no hitter
1916 In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise the price of World Series grandstand seats to $5-up from $3
1914 German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I).
1913 British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 kill)
1911 The Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.
1904 Boston pitchers achieve 148 complete games-an AL record, also record for total complete games AL 1,098, NL 1,089
1903 The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in the UK.
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