10 October

The 10t o October is the 283t day o the year (284t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 82 days bidin.

 Events 
 1471 - Swadish regent Sten Sture the Elder, wi help frae farmers an miners, repels an attack bi Christian I o Denmark.
 1774 - Captain James Cook reaches Norfolk Island in the wastren Paceefic Ocean.
 1846 - Discovery o Neptune's muin Triton.
 1892 - Breetish passenger ship "Bokhara" sinks in a typhoon aff the wast coast o Taiwan, killin 125 fowk.
 1914 - Ferdinand I o Romanie becomes Keeng.
 1920 - Italy annexes Sooth Tyrol.
 1928 - Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman o the Republic o Cheenae.
 1957 - A fire occurs at Windscale nuclear pouer station in Cumbria, Northwastren Ingland.
 1964 - Stairt o the 1964 Simmer Olympics in Tokyo.
 1970 - Fiji gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
 1970 - Quebec Vice Premier Pierre Laporte is kidnappit bi the Front de Liberation de Quebec.
 1973 - Spiro Agnew resigns as Vice Preses o the Unitit States.
 1975 - Papua New Guinea jyns the Unitit Naitions.
 1980 - A yirdquauk in Algerie kills 20,000 fowk.
 1986 - A magnitude 7.5 yirdquauk hits El Salvador, killin 1,500 fowk.
 1987 - Fiji becomes a republic.
 1999 - The London Eye is raised.
 2005 - It is propaled that Angela Merkel will become Chancellor o Germany.
 2008 - Martti Ahtisaari wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
 2008 - A bomb attack in Orakzai, Pakistan, kills 110 fowk.
 2010 - The Netherlands Antilles are split up.
 2014 - Malala Yousafzai an Kailash Satyarthi win the Nobel Peace Prize.
 2015 - Twin bombins kill 102 fowk in Ankara, Turkey.
 2017 - Preses o Catalonie Carles Puigdemont delays the region's declaration o unthirldom frae Spain.

 Births 
 1470 - Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1520)
 1680 - John Campbell, 2nt Duke o Argyll, Scots nobleman (d. 1743)
 1684 - Jean-Antoine Watteau, French penter (d. 1721)
 1731 - Henry Cavendish, Inglis scientist (d. 1810)
 1802 - Hugh Miller, Scots geologist, writer an fowklairist (d. 1856)
 1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian componer (d. 1901)
 1830 - Isabella II o Spain (d. 1904)
 1861 - Fridtjof Nansen, Norse splorer, scientist an diplomat (d. 1930)
 1872 - Arthur Lapworth, Scots chemist (d. 1941)
 1900 - Helen Hayes, American actress (d. 1993) 
 1901 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor an penter (d. 1966)
 1913 - Claude Simon, French writer (d. 2005)
 1917 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz componer an pianist (d. 1982)
 1930 - Yves Chauvin, French chemist (d. 2015)
 1930 - Harold Pinter, Inglis playwricht (d. 2008)
 1936 - Gerhard Ertl, German chemist
 1941 - Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer an activist (d. 1995)
 1946 - Naoto Kan, umwhile Prime meenister o Japan
 1946 - Charles Dance, Inglis actor
 1953 - Elisabetta Viviani, Italian sangster, telly host an actress
 1953 - Midge Ure, Scots muisicker
 1956 - Paul Sturrock, Scots fitbawer an manager
 1958 - Tanya Tucker, American sangster
 1959 - Kirsty MacColl, Inglis sangster (d. 2000)
 1967 - Gavin Newsom, govrenor o Californie 
 1971 - Graham Alexander, Inglis-Scots fitbawer an coach
 1982 - Yasser Al-Qahtani, Saudi fitbawer
 1985 - Marina and the Diamonds, Welsh sangster
 1991 - Gabriella Cilmi, Australian sangster
 1991 - Xherdan Shaqiri, Swiss fitbawer

 Daiths 
 19 - Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)
 1659 - Abel Tasman, Dutch splorer (b. 1603)
 1872 - William H. Seward, Unitit States Secretar o State (b. 1801)
 1876 - George Hay, 8t Marquess o Tweeddale, Scots sodger (b. 1787)
 1914 - Carol I o Romanie (b. 1839)
 1925 - Andrew Gray, Scots pheesicist an mathemateecian (b. 1847)
 1963 - Édith Piaf, French sangster (b. 1915)
 1973 - Ludwig von Mises, Austrick economist (b. 1881)
 1985 - Yul Brynner, Roushie-American actor (b. 1915)
 1985 - Orson Welles, American actor (b. 1915)
 2004 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
 2013 - Norrie Martin, Scots fitbawer (b. 1939)
 2015 - Richard F. Heck, American chemist (b. 1931)
 2016 - Eddie O'Hara, Scots fitbawer (b. 1935)

 Halidays 
 Naitional Day o Fiji
 Naitional Day o the Republic o Cheenae
 Arbor Day (Poland)
 Airmy Day (Sri Lanka)

Category:Days o the year