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

  • 1471 –
    Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm: Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark.
  • 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.
  • 1911 –
    The Kowloon-Canton Railway (split into MTR East Rail Line and Guangshen Railway now) commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
  • 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.
  • 1928 –
    Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
  • 1942 –
    The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1973 –
    Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
  • 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.
  • 2006 –
    The Greek city of Volos floods in one of the prefecture’s worst recorded floods.
  • 2008 –
    The 10 October 2008 Orakzai bombing kills 110 and injures 200 more.

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