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SOME TRIVIA FOR OCTOBER 10TH------------------------------- 1. 680 – Battle of Karbala: Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Muslims as Aashurah. 2. 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 Córdoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is killed during the battle. 3. 1575 – Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others. 4. 1845 – In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipman students and seven professors. 5. 1871 – The Great Chicago Fire: Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8 to October 10. 6. 1897 – German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin). 7. 1913 – United States President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal. 8. 1928 – Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China. 9. 1933 – United Airlines Boeing 247 mid-air explosion: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation. 10. 1944 – Holocaust: Eight hundred Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp. 11. 1953 – Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington, D.C. 12. 1957 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant. 13. 1964 – The opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite. 14. 1971 – Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. 15. 1973 – Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax. 16. 1985 – United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise ship, and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested. 17. 2010 – The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:41:07 +0000

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