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413Oct 10Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about age 57.
1631Oct 10A Saxon army occupied Prague.
1780Oct 10A Great Hurricane killed 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean.
1793Oct 10The rebellious French city of Lyons surrendered to Revolutionary troops.
1846Oct 10Alexis the Tocqueville wrote about the “Algerian problem.”
1863Oct 10The first telegraph line to Denver was completed.
1863Oct 10The Skirmish at Blue Springs, Tennessee, resulted in 166 casualties.
1877Oct 10Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer was buried at West Point in New York.
1899Oct 10I.R. Johnson patented the bicycle frame.
1908Oct 10The Chicago Cubs won Game 1 of the World Series with a 10-6 victory over the Detroit Tigers at Bennett Park.
1913Oct 10Panama Canal was completed when President Woodrow Wilson triggered a blast which exploded the Gamboa Dike by pressing an electric button at the White House in Washington, D.C.
1916Oct 10Antonio Sant’Elia (b.1888), Italian architect, was killed during the Eighth Battle of the Isonzo. He was a key member of the Futurist movement in architecture.
1931Oct 10William Walton’s “Belshazzar’s Feast,” premiered in Leeds.
1932Oct 10Dnjepr Dam in USSR, the world’s biggest, was put into operation.
1933Oct 10The 1st synthetic detergent, “Dreft” by Procter & Gamble, went on sale.
1938Oct 10Germany completed its annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland.
1940Oct 10General Fulgencio Batista (1901-1973) began serving a 4-year term as Cuba’s 14th president.
1941Oct 10German U-boat torpedoes hit the US destroyer Kearney.
1943Oct 10Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.
1944Oct 10The US took Okinawa.
1945Oct 10The Workers’ Party of Korea (North Korea) was officially founded.
1946Oct 10Ben Vereen, actor and dancer (Pippin, Roots, Webster), was born in Miami, Fla.
1947Oct 10The Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s musical “Allegro,” premiered in NYC.
1948Oct 10Carlos Prio became Cuba’s last democratically elected president. He was ousted by Batista in 1952.
1951Oct 10The New York Yankees won the World Series at home, defeating the New York Giants in game six by a score of 4-3.
1954Oct 10Ho Chi Minh entered Hanoi in Vietnam after French troops withdraw.
1957Oct 10 President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, the finance minister of Ghana, after the official had been refused service in a Dover, Del., restaurant.
1959Oct 10Pan American became the first to offer regular flights around world.
1960Oct 10A cyclone hit and tidal wave the Gulf of Bengal and killed about 6,000 in East Pakistan.
1963Oct 10A dam burst in Italy, and over 3,000 died. [see Sep 9, Oct 9]
1964Oct 10The XVIII Olympiad opened in Tokyo, Japan. The summer Olympics closing ceremonies were held on Oct 24.
1966Oct 10U.S. Forces launched Operation Robin, in Hoa Province south of Saigon in South Vietnam, to provide road security between villages.
1970Oct 10Former Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell (b.1902) died. Investigators soon found nearly half a million dollars in cash and checks, from unsuspecting drivers paying for their license plates, crammed into shoe boxes inside his hotel room.
1975Oct 10August Dvorak (b.1894), educational psychologist, died. In the 1930s he and his brother-in-law, Dr. William Dealey, designed a keyboard layout that was much superior to the QWERTY keyboard.
1978Oct 10President Carter signed a bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin.
1981Oct 10Funeral services were held in Cairo for Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat, who had been assassinated by Muslim extremists.
1987Oct 10The Rev. Jesse Jackson formally launched his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in Raleigh, N.C.
1989Oct 10South African President F.W. de Klerk announced that eight prominent political prisoners, including African National Congress official Walter Sisulu, would be unconditionally freed, but that Nelson Mandela would remain imprisoned.
1990Oct 10The Oakland A’s swept to the American League pennant and their third straight World Series by defeating the Boston Red Sox, 3-to-1.
1991Oct 10The US Senate Judiciary Committee prepared to re-open the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, accused of sexual harassment by former aide Anita Hill.
1992Oct 10Iraq released U.S. munitions expert Clinton Hall, two days after he’d been taken prisoner in the demilitarized zone separating Iraq and Kuwait.
1993Oct 10In Greece, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, led by Andreas Papandreou, won a solid majority of seats in parliamentary elections. A handful of dissidents brought down a modernizing ND government in a row over privatization.
1994Oct 10Americans Alfred G. Gilman and Martin Rodbell won the Nobel Prize in medicine.
1995Oct 10World chess champion Garry Kasparov won a month-long championship match against Viswanathan Anand.
1996Oct 10President Clinton joined Vice President Gore in Knoxville, Tenn., where the president moved to broaden the sweep of the Internet at 100 universities, national labs and other federal institutions. Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole hosted a rally in Cincinnati that featured his running mate, Jack Kemp, and retired General Colin Powell.
1997Oct 10Bob Dylan was awarded the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. It consisted of a silver medallion and a cash stipend.
1998Oct 10David Sheldon Boone (46), a former Pentagon analyst, was arrested for selling top defense secrets to the former Soviet Union. He was lured back to the US from Germany.
2000Oct 10The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments, co-inventor of the computer chip, Herbert Kroemer (72) of UC Santa Barbara and Zhores Alferov (70) of Russia for work in high-speed transistors and tiny lasers.
2001Oct 10The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to K. Barry Sharpless of Scripps Research, William S. Knowles of St. Louis and Ryoji Noyori of Nagoya Univ. for their work in developing catalysts to produce compounds of specific handedness.
2002Oct 10Imre Kertesz (72), a Hungarian novelist and secular Jew, won the Nobel Prize for literature. His books included “Fiasco” (1988) and “Kaddish for a Child Not Born” (1990).
2003Oct 10Human rights activist Shirin Ebadi (56) won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize. It was the first peace prize for an Iranian, and first for a Muslim woman.
2004Oct 10Ken Caminiti (41), the National League’s 1996 most valuable player who later admitted using steroids during his major league baseball career, died in New York.
2005Oct 10Robert J. Aumann of Israel and Thomas C. Schelling of the Univ. of Maryland won the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work in game theory that explains political and economic conflicts, arms races and even preventing warfare.
2006Oct 10The World Food Program (WFP) said nearly a quarter of a million people in Sudan’s Darfur region cannot access U.N. food rations due to fighting.
2007Oct 10Ontario’s Liberal Party won a second term heading Canada’s most populous province.
2008Oct 10NATO defense ministers authorized their troops in Afghanistan to attack drug barons blamed for pumping up to US$100 million (euro74 million) a year into the coffers of resurgent Taliban fighters.
2009Oct 10Christy Harp of Jackson township, Ohio, won the Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers annual weigh-off with a world record 1,725-pound Atlantic giant pumpkin.
2010Oct 10Virgin Galactic’s space tourism rocket, SpaceShip Two, achieved its first solo glide flight. Manned by 2 pilots it flew for 11 minutes before landing in Mojave, Ca.
2011Oct 10The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded Americans Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims won for their research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.
2012Oct 10US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the United States has sent 150 military troops to the Jordan-Syria border to bolster that country’s military capabilities in the event that violence escalates along its border with Syria.
2013Oct 10In Michigan former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to 28 years in prison for corruption.
2014Oct 10President Barack Obama declared large parts of the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles as a national monument.

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