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 283rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 82 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 27, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,334,240 minutes 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 ‘dihectaoctacontatrigon’ 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 130 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 4,676 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 10 Historical Events
- 19 –Roman general Germanicus suddenly dies in Antioch under mysterious circumstances. Roman historian Tactius records that Germanicus was poisoned by Syrian Governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso under orders from Roman Emperor Tiberius.
- 732 –Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, the leader of the Franks, Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is killed during the battle.
- 1860 –The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.
- 1868 –Carlos Céspedes issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba’s independence
- 1938 –The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
- 1943 –Double Tenth Incident in Japanese controlled Singapore
- 1944 –Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.
- 1963 –France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
- 1970 –Fiji becomes independent.
- 1970 –In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
Who were born on October 10?
- 1830 –Queen Isabella II of Spain (d. 1904)
- 1901 –Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)
- 1923 –Louis Gottlieb, bassist and lofty comic spokesman for The Limeliters (d. 1996)
- 1924 –Edward D. Wood, Jr., American filmmaker (d. 1978)
- 1953 –Gus Williams, American basketball player
- 1954 –Rekha, Bollywood actress
- 1963 –Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer
- 1965 –Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1981 –Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Mexican footballer
- 1982 –Amon Buchanan, Australian rules footballer
Who died on October 10?
- 1359 –King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
- 1723 –William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1665)
- 1857 –George Washington Parke Custis, American orator and playwright (b. 1781)
- 1876 –Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
- 1964 –Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (b. 1888)
- 1990 –Nikolaos Pavlopoulos, Greek sculptor and writer (b. 1909)
- 2001 –Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)
- 2005 –Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
- 2006 –Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
- 2007 –Mehmed Uzun, contemporary Kurdish writer and novelist (b. 1953)
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