Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 10
This is a list of selected October 10 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 680 – Husayn ibn Ali, grandson of Muhammad, was killed in the Battle of Karbala by the forces of Yazid I, whom Hussein had refused to recognise as caliph. | multiple issues |
| 732 – Charles Martel and the Franks defeated a large Andalusian Muslim army led by Abd er Rahman at the Battle of Tours near Tours and Poitiers. | refimprove section |
| 1845 – The United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, opened with 50 midshipmen students. | refimprove section |
| 1868 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes made the Grito de Yara, declaring Cuban independence from Spain, sparking the Ten Years' War. | section needs more context |
| 1919 – German composer Richard Strauss' opera Die Frau ohne Schatten premiered in Vienna. | unreferenced section |
| 1928 – General Chiang Kai-shek was named to be Chairman of the National Military Council, giving him leadership of the Republic of China. | refimprove sections |
| 2010 – The Netherlands Antilles was dissolved as a constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1846 – English astronomer William Lassell discovered Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune.
- 1911 – The Xinhai Revolution began with the Wuchang Uprising, marking the beginning of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China.
- 1943 – World War II: The Kempeitai, the military police arm of the Imperial Japanese Army, arrested and tortured over 50 civilians and civilian internees on suspicion of their involvement in a raid on Singapore Harbour during Operation Jaywick.
- 1964 – The opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics took place in Tokyo, the first to be telecast live internationally via satellite.
- 1973 – United States Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned after being charged with tax evasion.
October 10: National Day in Fiji (1970) and Taiwan (1911)
- 1780 – One of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record struck the Caribbean Sea, killing at least 22,000 people over the next several days.
- 1897 – German chemist Felix Hoffman discovered an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) (pills pictured).
- 1933 – In the first proven act of air sabotage in the history of commercial aviation, a United Airlines Boeing 247 exploded in mid-air near Chesterton, Indiana, US, killing all seven people aboard.
- 1967 – The Outer Space Treaty, a treaty that forms the basis of international space law, entered into force.
- 1982 – Maximilian Kolbe, who had volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland, was canonized by the Catholic Church.