Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 10
This is a list of selected October 10 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Yoshinori Sakai on his way to light the Olympic cauldron
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| National Day in Fiji (1970) and Taiwan (1911) | Fiji: refimprove section; Taiwan: refimprove section |
| 732 – Charles Martel and the Franks defeated a large Andalusian Muslim army led by Abd er Rahman at the Battle of Tours near Tours and Poitiers. | refimprove section |
| 1845 – The United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, opened with 50 midshipmen students. | refimprove section, unreferenced section |
| 1868 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes made the Grito de Yara, declaring Cuban independence from Spain, sparking the Ten Years' War. | lots of CN tags (13) |
| 1903 – Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union, a militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. | unreferenced section |
| 1919 – German composer Richard Strauss' opera Die Frau ohne Schatten premiered in Vienna. | unreferenced section |
| 1928 – General Chiang Kai-shek was named to be Chairman of the National Military Council, giving him leadership of the Republic of China. | inappropriate tone, refimprove section |
| 1962 – The German news magazine Der Spiegel revealed the unpreparedness of the West German armed forces against the communist threat from the east, and was accused of treason shortly afterwards. | lots of CN tags in one section |
| 1998 – General Augusto Pinochet was indicted for human rights violations committed in his native Chile and arrested in London six days later. | refimprove section |
| 2010 – The Netherlands Antilles was dissolved as a constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. | unreferenced section |
| Samuel J. Randall |b|1828 | TFA for 2020-06-10 |
Eligible
- 1933 – In the first proven act of sabotage in the history of commercial aviation, a Boeing 247 operated by United Airlines exploded in mid-air near Chesterton, Indiana, killing all seven people aboard.
- 1943 – World War II: The Kenpeitai, the military police arm of the Imperial Japanese Army, arrested and tortured fifty-seven civilians and civilian internees on suspicion of their involvement in a raid on Singapore Harbour during Operation Jaywick.
- 1964 – The opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics took place in Tokyo, becoming the first Games to be held in Asia and the first to be broadcast live internationally via satellite.
- 1967 – The Outer Space Treaty, a treaty that forms the basis of international space law, entered into force.
- 1982 – Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish friar who had volunteered to die in place of a stranger in Auschwitz concentration camp, was canonized by the Catholic Church.
- Born/died: | Paulinus of York |d|644| Phoebe Hinsdale Brown |d|1861| Blanche Lazzell |b|1878| Han van Meegeren |b|1889| R. K. Narayan |b|1906| Adolphus Busch |d|1913| Beatriz Michelena |d|1942| Rekha |b|1954| Priaulx Rainier |d|1986
October 10: Shemini Atzeret (Judaism, 2020)
- 680 – Husayn ibn Ali, a grandson of Muhammad, was killed in the Battle of Karbala by the forces of Yazid I, whom Husayn had refused to recognize as caliph.
- 1846 – English astronomer William Lassell discovered Triton, the largest moon of the newly discovered planet Neptune.
- 1911 – The Xinhai Revolution began with the Wuchang Uprising, marking the beginning of the collapse of the Qing dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China.
- 1963 – The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibits all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those conducted underground, came into effect.
- 1973 – U.S. vice president Spiro Agnew (pictured) resigned after being charged with tax evasion.
- Mary of Waltham (b. 1344)
- George Washington Parke Custis (d. 1857)
- Kazuyoshi Miura (d. 2008)