October 10: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 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.
2. 1845 - In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipman students and seven professors.
3. 1913 - President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
4. 1933 - United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
5. 1957 - The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world's first major nuclear accident.
6. 1964 - The opening ceremony at The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite.
7. 1967 - The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force.
8. 1971 - Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
9. 1986 - An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
10. 2010 - The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.
11. Famous Birthdays: Mark Gordon (American film producer), Gerhard Ertl (German surface chemist), Herb Levinson (American actor), The Great Antonio (Croatian-Canadian strongman), Thelonious Monk (American jazz pianist)

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