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
- 680 –Battle of Karbala: Hussain bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Muslims as Aashurah.
- 1631 –A Saxon army takes over Prague.
- 1845 –In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipman students and seven professors.
- 1860 –The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.
- 1920 –The Carinthian Plebiscite determines that the larger part of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
- 1928 –Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
- 1935 –A coup d'état by the royalist leadership of the Greek Armed Forces takes place in Athens. It overthrows the government of Panagis Tsaldaris and establishes a regency under Georgios Kondylis, effectively ending the Second Hellenic Republic.
- 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.
- 1963 –France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
- 1964 –The opening ceremony at The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite.
- 1971 –Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
- 1972 –The 1972 Chicago commuter rail crash, killing 48, occurs due to foggy conditions. The accident’s response pushes for changes in Chicago commuter rail, such as brightly colored ends on the cars.
- 1975 –Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
- 1997 –An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
- 2009 –Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.
- 2010 –The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.
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