What happened this day in history

Wikipedia defines history as the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. It came from the Greek word ‘historia’ – which means ‘inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation’.

Did you know? There are many who claim Herodotus, a fifth century BC Greek historian, as the “father of history”.

This website utilizes pages from Wikipedia to extract historical events from 3761 BC up to the present. There are 105,060 records in the database that include events, births and deaths of popular individuals. The present day Gregorian calendar was adopted to show dates of interest.

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What are the important events that happened on October 10? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

October 10: Facts & Myths About This Day

October 10 is the 284th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 82 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 27, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 480,144 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaoctacontatetragon’ day.

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Libra is the zodiac 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 111 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,311 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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October 10 Historical Events

  • 1631
    A Saxon army takes over Prague.
  • 1780
    The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean.
  • 1942
    The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia.
  • 1986
    An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
  • 1997
    An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.

Who were born on October 10?

  • 1923
    Murray Walker, British motorsport commentator
  • 1935
    Abu Jihad, Founder of the Palestinian group Fatah (d. 1988)
  • 1954
    Rekha, Bollywood actress
  • 1973
    Zach Thornton, American soccer player
  • 1980
    Elvis Hammond, Ghanaian footballer

Who died on October 10?

  • 19
    Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)
  • 1759
    Granville Elliott, British military officer (b. 1713)
  • 1922
    Andreas Karkavitsas, Greek writer (b. 1866)
  • 1978
    Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (b. 1910)
  • 2005
    Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)

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