Major Events
- 680 Al-Hussein (Al-Ḥusayn ibn) and his followers are killed at Karbala by the army of Yazid, the Umayyad caliph, on their way to Kufa
- 1780 The Great Hurricane of 1780 hits Barbados and goes on to kill 20,000 to 30,000 people in the Caribbean, making it the deadliest recorded hurricane in the Atlantic
- 1871 The Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after three days, leaving approximately 300 dead, 100,000 homeless, and causing $222 million in damage
- 1954 Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after the withdrawal of French troops
- 1957 A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, England, becomes the world’s first major nuclear accident
Oct 10 in Film & TV
- 1954 1st National Film Awards (India): “Shyamchi Aai” wins the Golden Lotus
Oct 10 in Music
Oct 10 in Sport
- 1899 African-American inventor Isaac R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame
Did You Know?
The Vinland Map, the first known map of America drawn around 1440, is introduced by Yale University
Fun Fact About October 10
First dinner jacket (tuxedo) worn to an autumn ball at Tuxedo Park in New York
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