A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on October 10 throughout history.
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The Great Hurricane of 1780 hits Barbados and goes on to kill 20,000 to 30,000 people in the Caribbean, making it the deadliest recorded hurricane in the Atlantic
The Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after three days, leaving approximately 300 dead, 100,000 homeless, and causing $222 million in damage
Chinese revolutionaries begin an armed rebellion against the ruling Qing dynasty in Wuchang, causing the Viceroy of Huguang to flee the city (Taiwan National Day)
Hồ Chí Minh, colloquially known as Uncle Ho (Bác Hồ) among other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman who founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, which was...
A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, England, becomes the world's first major nuclear accident
The National Film Award for Best Feature Film is one of the categories in the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India, the organisation set up by...
Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1970 album musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and the debut of the rock opera of the same name.
African American inventor Isaac R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame
Edward of Woodstock (15 June 1330 – 8 June 1376), known as the Black Prince, was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Edward III of England.
American revolution patriot Paul Revere (38) weds Rachel Walker in Boston, Massachusetts
Italian composer Antonio Salieri (24) weds Therese Helferstorfer
American "Bewiched" actress Elizabeth Montgomery (41) divorces American "Bewitched" director-producer William Asher (53) after 11 years of marriage
Actor and comedian Chris Kattan (37) divorces model Sunshine Tutt (32) due to irreconcilable differences after 2 months of marriage
Roman Emperor Constantius gives grand circus and theater shows to mark 30th year of his reign as Caesar in Arles
Al-Hussein (Al-Ḥusayn ibn) and his followers are killed at Karbala by the army of Yazid, the Umayyad caliph, on their way to Kufa
The Battle of Tours: The Umayyad army, led by Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is defeated by the Frankish-Aquitainian force led by Charles Martel during the Umayyad invasion of Gaul
West Frisian seawall breaks, flooding the northern Netherlands
Sten Sture the Elder (Swedish: Sten Sture den äldre; 1440 – 14 December 1503) was a Swedish statesman and regent of Sweden from 1470 to 1497 and again from 1501 to 1503.
Edward Seymour, first Duke of Somerset, is dismissed for mismanagement as Treasurer and Lord Protector of the Realm and imprisoned
Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeat the French Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others
German Count Johan Casimir occupies Ghent with 500 horsemen, subsidized by England
Saxon army occupies Prague
Advert in a tavern in Ludgate Hill, London, to view a rhinoceros is published; it is the first rhinoceros in Europe since 1515 [1]
William III and II (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), also known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland,...
French government proclaims a strike on banknotes
Suriname's colonial regime signs a treaty with the Aukaners (formerly enslaved people)
The Prussian invasion of Holland was a military campaign under the leadership of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, against the rise of the democratic Patriot movement in the Dutch...
Lieutenant-General Sir Stephen Remnant Chapman , K.C.H.(26 April 1775 – 6 March 1851) was a British Army officer and colonial official who served in Gibraltar and also as Governor of Bermuda. Stepehn...
First non-Indigenous settlement in Choctaw Territory of Oklahoma
The United States Naval Academy (USNA, Navy, or Annapolis) is a federal service academy adjacent to Annapolis, Maryland.
Alexis de Tocqueville writes about the "Algerian problem"
US Assay Office opens in New York City
Skirmish at Blue Springs, Tennessee (166 casualties)
The Cuban War of Independence, fought from 1895 to 1898, was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Ten Years' War (1868–1878) and the Little War...
The Colony of Fiji was a Crown colony that existed from 1874 to 1970 in the territory of the present-day nation of Fiji. London declined its first opportunity to annex Fiji in 1852.
First dinner jacket (tuxedo) is worn to an autumn ball at Tuxedo Park in New York
Teetotalers' excursion train crashes, killing 64 at Mud Run, Pennsylvania
Barnard College is founded in New York City after Columbia University refuses to admit women
Entire Hong Kong national cricket team dies in shipwreck off Taiwan
Foreign ministers in Peking begin their first serious negotiations over what conditions their nations will impose on the Chinese after putting down the Boxer Uprising
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Krugerər]; 10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904) was a South African politician.
Boston pitchers achieve 148 complete games, an AL record, also a record for total complete games: AL 1,098, NL 1,089
British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in the Atlantic, killing 136
WWI: German forces rout Belgians in Antwerp, Belgium
The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (known as the Plymouth Theatre prior to 2004) is a Broadway theater at 236 West 45th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S.
Baden's Geisz forms a government
South Tyrol, officially the Autonomous Province of Bolzano Südtirol. The province is Italy's northernmost, with an area of 7,400 square kilometres (2,857 sq mi), and has a population of about 534,000...
NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys
The Free State of Saxony (German: Freistaat Sachsen) was one of the constituent states of the federally organized Weimar Republic from 1919 to 1933.
The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central Division.
A.J. Bennett hits H. Garbarino for the first scoring pass in Canada's Big Four
Betty and Bob is a 1932-1940 radio soap opera. The soap opera follows the lives of Betty and Bob Drake. Betty was a secretary who falls madly in love with her boss, bachelor Bob Drake.
The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is an American multinational consumer goods corporation incorporated and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company operates five divisions: Beauty (18% of 2024...
Coup under Gen Georgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy
RAF bombs Piraeus to prevent German heavy armor from advancing
1,300 Austrian Jews are transported to Theresienstadt concentration camp
US bombers accidentally strike Enschede, Netherlands, causing 151 deaths
Admiral Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa; 700 die
Max Frisch's play "Die Chinesische Mauer" (The Chinese Wall) premieres in Zürich
US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Lee Harvey Oswald signs the guestbook in a hotel in Helsinki
On October 29, 1960, a Curtiss C-46 passenger aircraft crashed shortly after take-off near Toledo, Ohio, U.S.
Expansion draft stocks Houston Astros and New York Mets
Indians assault Chinese positions in North India attack
The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XVIII Olympiad and commonly known as Tokyo 1964, were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan.
American girl group The Supremes has released 29 studio albums, four live albums, two soundtrack albums, 32 compilation albums, four box sets, 66 singles and three promotional singles.
"Good Vibrations" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys, produced and composed by Brian Wilson with lyrics by Mike Love and, in some published versions, by Tony Asher.
George Harrison forms the music publishing company Singsong Ltd, though it only ever publishes one song, "Old Brown Shoe"
The Colony of Fiji was a Crown colony that existed from 1874 to 1970 in the territory of the present-day nation of Fiji. London declined its first opportunity to annex Fiji in 1852.
Three members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature explosion in a house on Balkan Street, Lower Falls, Belfast
Canadian cyclist John Hathaway begins a two-year ride of 50,600 miles
Israel formally signs the protocol for the Sinai II Agreement with Egypt in Jerusalem [1]
Amnesty International wins the Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing its significant role in human rights activism
Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry are injured by a cherry bomb
An unprecedented 2.9 inches of snow is measured in Central Park in New York City
Fleetwood Mac were a British and American rock band formed in London in 1967 by singer and guitarist Peter Green.
4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strike NW Algeria
Hernán Siles Zuazo (21 March 1914 – 6 August 1996) was a Bolivian politician who served as the 46th president of Bolivia twice nonconsecutively from 1956 to 1960 and from 1982 to 1985.
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north,...
The 1986 San Salvador earthquake occurred at 11:49:26 local time on 10 October 1986 with a moment magnitude of 5.7 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent).
NBC premieres the tele-biopic "Winnie," based on the life of Winifred Sprockett and starring Meredith Baxter
American Petroleum Institute (API) reports crude inventories dropped by more than 4 MMB in the last week
Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills four postal workers
Floriade (Flower Show) closes in The Hague, Netherlands
Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 are killed
Lt. General Raoul Cédras resigns as the dictator of Haiti
The 1993 New York Giants season was the franchise's 69th season in the National Football League (NFL) and the first under head coach Dan Reeves, who was hired by the Giants after being fired by the...
"Garden District" opens at Circle in the Square Theatre NYC
Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum in New York City
Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74
Shirin Ebadi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, becoming the first Iranian Muslim woman to receive the prize
Having already clinched his record 7th F1 World Drivers' Championship, German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher wins a record 13th race of the season with a victory at the Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka
Singapore becomes the first Asian country to slip into a recession since the credit crisis begins as growth falters due to decreased demand for exports, a reduction in tourism, and the end of the real estate boom
After closing borders for nearly 200 years, Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich to reopen their borders
The Caribbean country of Netherlands Antilles is disestablished, succeeded by the island nations of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Canadian writer Alice Munro (1931–2024) as "master of the contemporary short story." She was the first Canadian and the 13th woman to receive the...
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist, and producer of film and television.
Bombing at a peace rally in Ankara, Turkey kills at least 95 and injures 200
Joel Hans Embiid ( joh-EL em-BEED; born 16 March 1994) is a Cameroonian and American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Flash floods kill at least 10 in Sant Llorenç des Cardassar, Majorca, Spain
Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk after a year's delay due to a Swedish Academy scandal
Italian teenage computer genius Carlo Acutis, who dies of leukemia at 15, is beatified by the Catholic Church in Assisi, Italy
Nobel Prize in Economics is awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, and Philip Dybvig for discoveries that improve how society deals with financial crises [1] [2]
Revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical "Merrily We Roll Along," based on George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's play and starring Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe, opens at Hudson Theatre in New York City and wins 4 Tony Awards
About 120 people are massacred by an armed gang in the Haitian town of Pont-Sondé amid a worsening gang crisis in the country [1]
7.4 magnitude earthquake strikes near coast of Mindanano in the Philippines
R.K. Narayan writer, known for indian writer, was born on 1906-10-10. Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayanaswami (10 October 1906 – 13 May 2001), better known as R. K.
Juliane Koepcke is born
Gavin Newsom is born
Chris Ofili, British painter, known for british painter, was born on 1969-10-10. Christopher Ofili, is a British painter who won the Turner Prize in 1998.
Helen Hayes, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1900-10-10. Helen Hayes MacArthur was an American actress.
Harold Pinter, British playwright, known for british playwright, was born on 1930-10-10. Harold Pinter (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor.
Mario Lopez, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1974-10-10. Mario Lopez is an American actor and television host.
Rose McIver is born
David Lee Roth, American musician, known for american rock singer, was born on 1955-10-10. David Lee Roth known as "Diamond Dave" is an American rock singer.
Brett Favre, American athlete, known for american football player, was born on 1970-10-10.
Roman Emperor Constantius gives grand circus and theater shows to mark 30th year of his reign as Caesar in Arles
Al-Hussein (Al-Ḥusayn ibn) and his followers are killed at Karbala by the army of Yazid, the Umayyad caliph, on their way to Kufa
The Battle of Tours: The Umayyad army, led by Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is defeated by the Frankish-Aquitainian force led by Charles Martel during the Umayyad invasion of Gaul
Edward of Woodstock (15 June 1330 – 8 June 1376), known as the Black Prince, was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Edward III of England.
West Frisian seawall breaks, flooding the northern Netherlands
Sten Sture the Elder (Swedish: Sten Sture den äldre; 1440 – 14 December 1503) was a Swedish statesman and regent of Sweden from 1470 to 1497 and again from 1501 to 1503.
Edward Seymour, first Duke of Somerset, is dismissed for mismanagement as Treasurer and Lord Protector of the Realm and imprisoned
Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeat the French Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others
German Count Johan Casimir occupies Ghent with 500 horsemen, subsidized by England
Saxon army occupies Prague
Advert in a tavern in Ludgate Hill, London, to view a rhinoceros is published; it is the first rhinoceros in Europe since 1515 [1]
William III and II (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), also known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland,...
French government proclaims a strike on banknotes
Suriname's colonial regime signs a treaty with the Aukaners (formerly enslaved people)
American revolution patriot Paul Revere (38) weds Rachel Walker in Boston, Massachusetts
Italian composer Antonio Salieri (24) weds Therese Helferstorfer
The Great Hurricane of 1780 hits Barbados and goes on to kill 20,000 to 30,000 people in the Caribbean, making it the deadliest recorded hurricane in the Atlantic
The Prussian invasion of Holland was a military campaign under the leadership of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, against the rise of the democratic Patriot movement in the Dutch...
Lieutenant-General Sir Stephen Remnant Chapman , K.C.H.(26 April 1775 – 6 March 1851) was a British Army officer and colonial official who served in Gibraltar and also as Governor of Bermuda. Stepehn...
First non-Indigenous settlement in Choctaw Territory of Oklahoma
The United States Naval Academy (USNA, Navy, or Annapolis) is a federal service academy adjacent to Annapolis, Maryland.
Alexis de Tocqueville writes about the "Algerian problem"
US Assay Office opens in New York City
Skirmish at Blue Springs, Tennessee (166 casualties)
The Cuban War of Independence, fought from 1895 to 1898, was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Ten Years' War (1868–1878) and the Little War...
The Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after three days, leaving approximately 300 dead, 100,000 homeless, and causing $222 million in damage
The Colony of Fiji was a Crown colony that existed from 1874 to 1970 in the territory of the present-day nation of Fiji. London declined its first opportunity to annex Fiji in 1852.
First dinner jacket (tuxedo) is worn to an autumn ball at Tuxedo Park in New York
Teetotalers' excursion train crashes, killing 64 at Mud Run, Pennsylvania
Barnard College is founded in New York City after Columbia University refuses to admit women
Entire Hong Kong national cricket team dies in shipwreck off Taiwan
African American inventor Isaac R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame
Foreign ministers in Peking begin their first serious negotiations over what conditions their nations will impose on the Chinese after putting down the Boxer Uprising
Helen Hayes, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1900-10-10. Helen Hayes MacArthur was an American actress.
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Krugerər]; 10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904) was a South African politician.
Boston pitchers achieve 148 complete games, an AL record, also a record for total complete games: AL 1,098, NL 1,089
R.K. Narayan writer, known for indian writer, was born on 1906-10-10. Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayanaswami (10 October 1906 – 13 May 2001), better known as R. K.
Chinese revolutionaries begin an armed rebellion against the ruling Qing dynasty in Wuchang, causing the Viceroy of Huguang to flee the city (Taiwan National Day)
British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in the Atlantic, killing 136
WWI: German forces rout Belgians in Antwerp, Belgium
The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (known as the Plymouth Theatre prior to 2004) is a Broadway theater at 236 West 45th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S.
Baden's Geisz forms a government
South Tyrol, officially the Autonomous Province of Bolzano Südtirol. The province is Italy's northernmost, with an area of 7,400 square kilometres (2,857 sq mi), and has a population of about 534,000...
NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys
The Free State of Saxony (German: Freistaat Sachsen) was one of the constituent states of the federally organized Weimar Republic from 1919 to 1933.
The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central Division.
Harold Pinter, British playwright, known for british playwright, was born on 1930-10-10. Harold Pinter (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor.
A.J. Bennett hits H. Garbarino for the first scoring pass in Canada's Big Four
Betty and Bob is a 1932-1940 radio soap opera. The soap opera follows the lives of Betty and Bob Drake. Betty was a secretary who falls madly in love with her boss, bachelor Bob Drake.
The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is an American multinational consumer goods corporation incorporated and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company operates five divisions: Beauty (18% of 2024...
Coup under Gen Georgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy
RAF bombs Piraeus to prevent German heavy armor from advancing
1,300 Austrian Jews are transported to Theresienstadt concentration camp
US bombers accidentally strike Enschede, Netherlands, causing 151 deaths
Admiral Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa; 700 die
Max Frisch's play "Die Chinesische Mauer" (The Chinese Wall) premieres in Zürich
Hồ Chí Minh, colloquially known as Uncle Ho (Bác Hồ) among other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman who founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, which was...
The National Film Award for Best Feature Film is one of the categories in the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India, the organisation set up by...
Juliane Koepcke is born
David Lee Roth, American musician, known for american rock singer, was born on 1955-10-10. David Lee Roth known as "Diamond Dave" is an American rock singer.
A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, England, becomes the world's first major nuclear accident
US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Lee Harvey Oswald signs the guestbook in a hotel in Helsinki
On October 29, 1960, a Curtiss C-46 passenger aircraft crashed shortly after take-off near Toledo, Ohio, U.S.
Expansion draft stocks Houston Astros and New York Mets
Indians assault Chinese positions in North India attack
The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XVIII Olympiad and commonly known as Tokyo 1964, were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan.
American girl group The Supremes has released 29 studio albums, four live albums, two soundtrack albums, 32 compilation albums, four box sets, 66 singles and three promotional singles.
"Good Vibrations" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys, produced and composed by Brian Wilson with lyrics by Mike Love and, in some published versions, by Tony Asher.
George Harrison forms the music publishing company Singsong Ltd, though it only ever publishes one song, "Old Brown Shoe"
Gavin Newsom is born
Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1970 album musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and the debut of the rock opera of the same name.
Chris Ofili, British painter, known for british painter, was born on 1969-10-10. Christopher Ofili, is a British painter who won the Turner Prize in 1998.
The Colony of Fiji was a Crown colony that existed from 1874 to 1970 in the territory of the present-day nation of Fiji. London declined its first opportunity to annex Fiji in 1852.
Brett Favre, American athlete, known for american football player, was born on 1970-10-10.
Three members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature explosion in a house on Balkan Street, Lower Falls, Belfast
American "Bewiched" actress Elizabeth Montgomery (41) divorces American "Bewitched" director-producer William Asher (53) after 11 years of marriage
Canadian cyclist John Hathaway begins a two-year ride of 50,600 miles
Mario Lopez, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1974-10-10. Mario Lopez is an American actor and television host.
Israel formally signs the protocol for the Sinai II Agreement with Egypt in Jerusalem [1]
Amnesty International wins the Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing its significant role in human rights activism
Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry are injured by a cherry bomb
An unprecedented 2.9 inches of snow is measured in Central Park in New York City
Fleetwood Mac were a British and American rock band formed in London in 1967 by singer and guitarist Peter Green.
4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strike NW Algeria
Hernán Siles Zuazo (21 March 1914 – 6 August 1996) was a Bolivian politician who served as the 46th president of Bolivia twice nonconsecutively from 1956 to 1960 and from 1982 to 1985.
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north,...
The 1986 San Salvador earthquake occurred at 11:49:26 local time on 10 October 1986 with a moment magnitude of 5.7 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent).
NBC premieres the tele-biopic "Winnie," based on the life of Winifred Sprockett and starring Meredith Baxter
Rose McIver is born
American Petroleum Institute (API) reports crude inventories dropped by more than 4 MMB in the last week
Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills four postal workers
Floriade (Flower Show) closes in The Hague, Netherlands
Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 are killed
Lt. General Raoul Cédras resigns as the dictator of Haiti
The 1993 New York Giants season was the franchise's 69th season in the National Football League (NFL) and the first under head coach Dan Reeves, who was hired by the Giants after being fired by the...
"Garden District" opens at Circle in the Square Theatre NYC
Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum in New York City
Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74
Shirin Ebadi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, becoming the first Iranian Muslim woman to receive the prize
Having already clinched his record 7th F1 World Drivers' Championship, German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher wins a record 13th race of the season with a victory at the Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka
Actor and comedian Chris Kattan (37) divorces model Sunshine Tutt (32) due to irreconcilable differences after 2 months of marriage
Singapore becomes the first Asian country to slip into a recession since the credit crisis begins as growth falters due to decreased demand for exports, a reduction in tourism, and the end of the real estate boom
After closing borders for nearly 200 years, Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich to reopen their borders
The Caribbean country of Netherlands Antilles is disestablished, succeeded by the island nations of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Canadian writer Alice Munro (1931–2024) as "master of the contemporary short story." She was the first Canadian and the 13th woman to receive the...
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist, and producer of film and television.
Bombing at a peace rally in Ankara, Turkey kills at least 95 and injures 200
Joel Hans Embiid ( joh-EL em-BEED; born 16 March 1994) is a Cameroonian and American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Flash floods kill at least 10 in Sant Llorenç des Cardassar, Majorca, Spain
Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk after a year's delay due to a Swedish Academy scandal
Italian teenage computer genius Carlo Acutis, who dies of leukemia at 15, is beatified by the Catholic Church in Assisi, Italy
Nobel Prize in Economics is awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, and Philip Dybvig for discoveries that improve how society deals with financial crises [1] [2]
Revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical "Merrily We Roll Along," based on George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's play and starring Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe, opens at Hudson Theatre in New York City and wins 4 Tony Awards
About 120 people are massacred by an armed gang in the Haitian town of Pont-Sondé amid a worsening gang crisis in the country [1]
7.4 magnitude earthquake strikes near coast of Mindanano in the Philippines