About October 10
October 10, 2025 is the 283rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 82 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 130 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.
- 1575 –Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
- 1580 –After a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 Irish and Papal soldiers and civilians at Dún an Óir, Ireland.
- 1631 –A Saxon army takes over Prague.
- 1780 –The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean.
- 1860 –The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.
- 1868 –Carlos Céspedes issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba’s independence
- 1913 –President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
- 1920 –The Carinthian Plebiscite determines that the larger part of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
- 1933 –United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
- 1938 –The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
- 1944 –Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.
- 1945 –The Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in Chongqing about the future of post-war China. Later, the pact is commonly referred to as the Double-Ten Agreement.
- 1957 –The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world’s first major nuclear accident.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1985 –United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijackers and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested.
- 1997 –An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
- 2008 –The 10 October 2008 Orakzai bombing kills 110 and injures 200 more.
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