What Happened on 10th October ?
Born on this day
1892 Ivo Andric
1731 Henry Cavendish
1509 John Calvin
1906 Paul Creston
1903 Vernon Duke
1901 Alberto Giacometti
1900 Helen Hayes
1830 Isabella II
1825 Paul Kruger
1895 Lin Yutang
1889 Han van Meegeren
1917 Thelonious Monk
1861 Fridtjof Nansen
1906 R. K. Narayan
1930 Harold Pinter
1859 Maurice Prendergast
1684 Antoine Watteau
1738 Benjamin West
DIED THIS DAY
1971 Sir Cyril Burt
1964 Eddie Cantor
1914 Carol I
1720 Antoine Coysevox
1970 Édouard Daladier
1925 James B. Duke
1837 Charles Fourier
1973 Ludwig von Mises
2005 Milton Obote
1983 Sir Ralph Richardson
1875 Aleksey, Count Tolstoy
0680 al-Husayn ibn 'Ali
1985 Orson Welles
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10th October, 2008 : Taliban Militants Attack Military Headquarters in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad in Northern Pakistan leaving at least 19 people dead, this is an ongoing increase in the last few weeks of militant activity.
10th October, 2008 : Stock markets around the world continue to fall on fears of a major recession following the collapse the financial markets.
10th October, 2008 : A suicide car bomb attack struck as some 600 people held an open-air meeting to raise a militia to evict Taleban in the Orakzai semi-autonomous tribal region.
10th October, 1999: Thousands assemble to watch a giant Ferris wheel ( One of the UK's Largest Millennium Projects ) move into position as a new landmark on the London skyline the South Bank of London between Waterloo station and Westminster Bridge. The Millennium Wheel, better known now as the London Eye. ( The London Eye stands 135 meters high and has become one of the most successful Millennium projects attracting an average of 10,000 visitors a day and is the biggest Ferris wheel in the world ). .
10th October, 1978: President Carter signed a bill authorizing the likeness of suffragette Susan B. Anthony on one side of the new dollar coin, and the Apollo moon landing on the other.
10th October, 1971: After being removed from over the Thames in London and shipped all the way to Arizona and then reconstructed London Bridge reopened today in Lake Havasu City, Arizona .
10th October, 1964 : The Summer Olympics open in Japan when Emperor Hirohito of Japan opened the 18th Olympic Games in Tokyo .
10th October, 1944: 800 Gypsy children, are murdered when they are gassed to death at Auschwitz concentration camps. As well as Jews the Nazi party had decided Gypsies should also be exterminated and Approximately 1.5 million Gypsies were murdered by the Nazis.
10th October, 1913: The Panama Canal officially joined the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific ocean when the Gamboa dike was demolished with charges of dynamite.
Born on this day
1892 Ivo Andric
1731 Henry Cavendish
1509 John Calvin
1906 Paul Creston
1903 Vernon Duke
1901 Alberto Giacometti
1900 Helen Hayes
1830 Isabella II
1825 Paul Kruger
1895 Lin Yutang
1889 Han van Meegeren
1917 Thelonious Monk
1861 Fridtjof Nansen
1906 R. K. Narayan
1930 Harold Pinter
1859 Maurice Prendergast
1684 Antoine Watteau
1738 Benjamin West
DIED THIS DAY
1971 Sir Cyril Burt
1964 Eddie Cantor
1914 Carol I
1720 Antoine Coysevox
1970 Édouard Daladier
1925 James B. Duke
1837 Charles Fourier
1973 Ludwig von Mises
2005 Milton Obote
1983 Sir Ralph Richardson
1875 Aleksey, Count Tolstoy
0680 al-Husayn ibn 'Ali
1985 Orson Welles
What else >>>>>>>>
10th October, 2008 : Taliban Militants Attack Military Headquarters in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad in Northern Pakistan leaving at least 19 people dead, this is an ongoing increase in the last few weeks of militant activity.
10th October, 2008 : Stock markets around the world continue to fall on fears of a major recession following the collapse the financial markets.
10th October, 2008 : A suicide car bomb attack struck as some 600 people held an open-air meeting to raise a militia to evict Taleban in the Orakzai semi-autonomous tribal region.
10th October, 1999: Thousands assemble to watch a giant Ferris wheel ( One of the UK's Largest Millennium Projects ) move into position as a new landmark on the London skyline the South Bank of London between Waterloo station and Westminster Bridge. The Millennium Wheel, better known now as the London Eye. ( The London Eye stands 135 meters high and has become one of the most successful Millennium projects attracting an average of 10,000 visitors a day and is the biggest Ferris wheel in the world ). .
10th October, 1978: President Carter signed a bill authorizing the likeness of suffragette Susan B. Anthony on one side of the new dollar coin, and the Apollo moon landing on the other.
10th October, 1971: After being removed from over the Thames in London and shipped all the way to Arizona and then reconstructed London Bridge reopened today in Lake Havasu City, Arizona .
10th October, 1964 : The Summer Olympics open in Japan when Emperor Hirohito of Japan opened the 18th Olympic Games in Tokyo .
10th October, 1944: 800 Gypsy children, are murdered when they are gassed to death at Auschwitz concentration camps. As well as Jews the Nazi party had decided Gypsies should also be exterminated and Approximately 1.5 million Gypsies were murdered by the Nazis.
10th October, 1913: The Panama Canal officially joined the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific ocean when the Gamboa dike was demolished with charges of dynamite.
