|
Notable anniversaries in history for today: October 10
- 150th: 1874 - Fiji becomes a British possession.
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of James Clavell; author (Tai Pan, Shogun).
- 100th: 1924 - Washington Senators win their first World Series beating New York Giants in 7 (World Series #21).
- 60th: 1964 - (to October 24) The Games of the XVIII Olympiad are held in Tokyo, Japan.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Maxi Gnauck in the German Democratic Republic; uneven parallel bars (Olympic-gold-1980).
- 60th: 1964 - Eddie Cantor, comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater), dies at age 72.
- 60th: 1964 - Russ Case, orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show), dies at age 52.
- 50th: 1974 - Canadian John Hathaway begins two-year ride of 50,600 miles.
- 50th: 1974 - Death of Marie Luise Kaschnitz (born von Holzing Berstett) in Rome, Italy (born in 1901 in Karlsruhe, Germany); novelist, poet (Liebe beginnt (1933), Elissa (1937), Totentanz und Gedichte zur Zeit (1947), Zukunftsmusik (1950), Dein Schweigen, meine Stimme (1962)).
- 30th: 1994 - Russia devalues the ruble.
- 20th: 2004 - Abdullahi Yusuf is chosen as the new transitional president of Somalia.
- 15th: 2009 - Polish President Lech Kaczynski signs the European Union's Lisbon Treaty.
- 15th: 2009 - Turkey and Armenia sign an accord normalising relations, after nearly 100 years of hostility following the deportation from the Ottoman Empire and deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in 1915.
- 5th: 2019 - Swedish Academy awards Nobel Prize in literature for 2018 to Olga Tokarczuk of Poland, and for 2019 to Peter Handke of Austria.
|
vvv advertisement vvv
^^^ advertisement ^^^
You can pick a particular day to view that day's events in history.
Bookmark this URL: http://kpolsson.com/thisday/anniv/ and revisit each day.
(this URL will automatically re-direct to the file containing the current day's events)
|