On This Day October 10th

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October 10th is the 283rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 82 days remain until the end of the year.


Events

1492 – The crew of Christopher Columbus's ship, the Santa Maria, attempted a mutiny.

1780 – The Great Hurricane 1780 killed 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.

1846 – Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, was discovered by English astronomer William Lassell.

1913 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.

1933 – A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.

1938 – Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.

1957 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.

1964 – The Tokyo Summer Olympics opening ceremony is the first relayed live by satellites.

1973 – U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.


Birthdays

1599 – Étienne Moulinié, French composer and director (d. 1676)

1731 – Henry Cavendish, French-English chemist, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1810)

1900 – Helen Hayes, American actress (d. 1993)

1924 – Ed Wood, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter (d. 1978)

1946 – John Prine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2020)

1950 – Nora Roberts, American author

1954 – David Lee Roth, American singer-songwriter and producer

1965 – Toshi, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer

1974 – Dale Earnhardt Jr., American race car driver and actor

1990 – Geno Smith, American football player


Holidays and Observances

National Cake Decorating Day

With holiday dessert buffets coming up soon, National Cake Decorating Day is the perfect time to practice your technique! Halloween’s just a few short weeks away! Learning to create spooky ghosts, spiderwebs, pumpkins, and broomsticks from icing and fondant could be the perfect warm-up for embellishing cakes, cupcakes, and cookies with intricate snowy Christmas scenes a little later. And think of all the fun you can have to mix frosting colors — like dyeing Easter eggs with lickable spoons.


Others Include

Ada Lovelace Day - October 10, 2023 (Second Tuesday of October)

Bonza Bottler Day 

Cuba Independence Day)

Curaçao Day 

Fiji Day

Motorsports Memorial Day 

National Handbag Day 

National Hug a Kevin Day 

National Love Your Hair Day 

National Metric Day

Naval Academy Day 

Own Business Day 

Powers of Ten-Day 

Squid & Cuttlefish Day 

World Child Development Day 

World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 

World Mental Health Day 


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