Historical Events In October - 10

2013  Alice Munro is awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for literature on this day in history.  

2014  On this day in history malala Yousafzai & Kailash Satyarthi win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize  

2017  "Thor: Ragnarok" directed by Taika Waititi, starring Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Cate Blanchett premieres in Los Angeles, California on October - 10.  

2018  On this day in history hurricane Michael makes landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, as a category 4 hurricane with winds of 155 mph (250 km/h), going on to kill 27, having killed 15 in Central America  

2018  Flash floods kills at least 10 in Sant Llorenç des Cardassar, Majorca, Spain on October - 10.  

2018  Hurricane Michael makes landfall at Mexico Beach, Florida, with winds of 155 mph and a minimum pressure of 919 mbar. It is the most intense hurricane to hit the mainland United States since Camille in 1969 on this day in history.  

2020  On October - 10 armenia and Azerbaijan agree on a ceasefire in the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.  

2021  Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen says country won't bow to Chinese pressure in defiant speech on Taiwanese National Day, day after Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to "fulfil reunification" on this day in history.  

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1344  On October - 10 birth of mary Plantagenet,English princess (d. 1362)  

1486  On October - 10 birth of charles III, Duke of Savoy  

1567  On this day in history birth of infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597)  

1599  On October - 10 birth of jacob Aertsz Colom, Dutch publisher (Consolation of the Sea)  

1678  John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/fieldmarshal (Union of 1707) was born on October - 10.  

1684  On October - 10 birth of jean Antoine Watteau, French rococo painter (Onverschillige)  

1700  On October - 10 birth of lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)  

1713  Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer was born on October - 10.  

0019  Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commandant of Rijnleger, dies at 33 on October - 10.  

0413  Death of Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57 on October - 10.  

0680  Death of Hussein, grandson of prophet Mohammed, beheaded on this day in history.  

0732  On this day in history death of abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia  

0833  On October - 10 death of al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786)  

1359  Death of King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295) on this day in history.  

1616  On October - 10 maria van Nassau, countess of Buren, dies at 60  

1651  On October - 10 philippus Rovenius, [Rouveen], apostole, dies at 77