History of October 10

On October 10 the following events have occured in our world's history.

1845 - US Naval academy opens at Annapolis Maryland
1846 - Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
1886 - 1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park NY (the tuxedo)
1904 - Yanks 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader. Also 41 game winner Chesbro loses the 1st game & chance at pennent
1911 - China Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew Manchu dynasty
1913 - Pacific & Atl mix as engineers blow Gamboa Dam opening Panama Canal
1920 - Bill Wambsganns unassisted world series triple play
1933 - 1st synthetic detergent for home use marketed
1935 - George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess opens in NY
1937 - Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 1 in the world series
1938 - Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
1943 - Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.
1951 - Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in the world series
1956 - On Skowron's grand slammer Yanks beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7
1957 - Braves Lew Burdette beats Yankees 3 times in 1 world series
1957 - Pres Eisenhower apologized to finance minister of Ghana Komla Agbeli Gbdemah after he was refused service in a Dover Del. restaurant
1960 - Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards.
1963 - treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by US UK USSR.
1964 - 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo.
1970 - Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day).
1973 - VP Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns.
1973 - Vice-Pres. Agnew resigns after conviction for income-tax evasion.
1975 - Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt
1976 - NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens
1978 - Yanks & Dodgers play in World Series # 75
1978 - Pres Carter signs a bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
1980 - 4 500 people die when a pair of earthquakes struck NW Algeria
1980 - Yanks lost 4-2 & are swept by Royals in the AL Championship series
1980 - Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated
1982 - Pope John Paul II proclaimed Rev. M Kolbe who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp a saint
1985 - US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy gunmen were placed in custody