Today in History
10 October
254 births · 130 deaths · 51 events recorded
Featured Birthday · Born 1986
Andrew McCutchen
American baseball player (born 1986)
Notable Births
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Josh Giddey
b. 2002
Australian basketball player (born 2002)
Sami Niku
b. 1996
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1996)
Courtland Sutton
b. 1995
American football player (born 1995)
Bae Suzy
b. 1994
South Korean singer and actress (born 1994)
Mike Tobey
b. 1994
American-Slovenian professional basketball player (born 1994)
Andrew McCutchen
b. 1986
American baseball player (born 1986)
Pat Burrell
b. 1976
American baseball player (born 1976)
John Prine
b. 1946
American singer-songwriter (1946–2020)
Notable Deaths
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John Lodge (musician)
d. 2025
British rock musician (1943–2025)
Ethel Kennedy
d. 2024
American human rights advocate (1928–2024)
Mulayam Singh Yadav
d. 2022
Indian politician (1939–2022)
Abdul Qadeer Khan
d. 2021
Pakistani nuclear physicist (1936–2021)
Steve Mackay
d. 2015
Musical artist
Christopher Reeve
d. 2004
American actor and activist (1952–2004)
Michael J. S. Dewar
d. 1997
American chemist
Orson Welles
d. 1985
American actor and filmmaker (1915–1985)
On This Day in History
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2022
Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig are jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Ben Bernanke
2018
Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage.
Hurricane Michael
2018
The National Fire and Rescue Administration is founded, replacing the China Fire Services [zh] and the People's Armed Police Forestry Corps [zh] as China's primary firefighting agency.
National Fire and Rescue Administration
2015
Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara kill 109 and injure 500+.
2015 Ankara bombings
2010
The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.
Netherlands Antilles
2009
Armenia and Turkey sign the Zurich Protocols, intended to normalize relations. However, they are never ratified by either side.
Armenia
2007
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor becomes the first Malaysian in space on board Soyuz TMA-11.
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor
2002
Iraq War: The United States Congress approves the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.
Iraq War