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)