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On this day in History - Oct. 10

• Oct 09, 2010 from looking4good(Fernando Silva) in Entertainment
  0019 - Germanicus dies (b. 15 BC). Roman general.0680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Shi'a Muslims as Aashurah. (See also History Focus). 0680 - Husayn ibn Ali dies (b. 0626). Shi'a imam, Mahomet's grandson.0732 - Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, leader of the Franks Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba, Abd-ar-Rahman, is killed during the battle. 0732 - Abd ar-Rahman dies. Moorish Governor of Andalusia. 0833 - al-Ma'mun dies (b. 0786). Abbasid caliph of Baghdad. 1344 - Mary Plantagenet was born (d. 1362). English princess.1359 - King Hugh IV of Cyprus dies (b. 1295). 1459 - Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini dies (b. 1380). Italian humanist and classicist. 1471 - Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm: Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark. 1486 - Bartolomeu Dias receives a Portuguese Royal annuity. 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli dies killed in battle (b. 1484). Swiss reformer.1567 - Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain was born (d. 1597). 1575 - Battle of Dormans: Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeated the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others. 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. 1631 - A Saxon army take over Prague. 1659 - Abel Tasman dies (b. 1603). Dutch explorer and navigator. He discovered Tasmania 1674 - Thomas Traherne dies. English poet. 1678 - John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll was born (d. 1743). Scottish soldier. 1684 - Antoine Watteau was born (d. 1721). French rococo painter. 1691 - Isaac de Benserade dies (b. 1613). French poet.1700 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam was born (d. 1759). French sculptor. 1708 - David Gregory dies (b. 1659). Scottish astronomer. 1714 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert dies (b. 1646). French economist. 1720 - Antoine Coysevox dies (b. 1640). French sculptor. 1723 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper dies (b. 1665). Lord Chancellor of England. 1725 - Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil dies (b. 1643). Governor-General of New France. 1731 - Henry Cavendish was born (d. 1810). British scientist. 1733 - France declares war on Austria over the question of Polish succession. 1738 - Benjamin West was born in Springfield, Pennsylvania (d. 11 Mar 1820). Painter (Death of General Wolfe). 1747 - John Potter dies (b. 1674). Archbishop of Canterbury. 1759 - Granville Elliott dies (b. 1713). British military officer.1765 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset dies (b. 1688). Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. 1780 - John Abercrombie was born (d. 1844). Scottish physician and philosopher. 1780 - The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in Caribbean. 1783 - Henry Brook dies in Dublin (b. 1703). Novelist and dramatist. 1794 - William Whiting Boardman was born (d. 1871). American politician.1795 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria dies (b. 1714). Italian theologian and historian.1806 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia dies (b. 1772). German prince.1813 - Giuseppe Verdi was born (d. 1901). Italian composer (Rigoletto, La Traviata, Aida). 1817 - Gertrudis Bocanegra es fusilada en Michoacn (n. 11 Abr 1765). defensora da libertad y luchadora infatigable pela causa da Independencia do Mexico. 1819 - Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger was born (d. 1883). German theologian. 1824 - Guadalupe Victoria sworn as the first President of Mexican Republic. 1825 - Paul Kruger was born (d. 1904). President of the Transvaal Republic. 1827 - Rosario Ortiz was born in Concepcion. Chilean journalist, one of the first of Latina America. 1827 - Ugo Foscolo dies (b. 1778). Italian writer.1828 - Samuel J. Randall was born (d. 1890). Speaker of the United States House of Representatives1830 - Queen Isabella II was born (d. 1904). Queen of Spain. 1834 - Aleksis Kivi was born (d. 1872). Finnish author (Seitseman veljesta: Seven Brothers, 1870). 1837 - Robert Gould Shaw was born (d. 1863). U.S. Army officer. 1837 - Charles Fourier dies (b. 1772). French philosopher. 1839 - Francisco Giner de los Rios was born (d. 1915). Spanish educator and philosopher. Founder of "Institucin Libre de Enseanza". 1845 - In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors. 1856 - Vicente Lpez y Planes dies (b. 1785). Argentine politician and writer who was the author of the lyrics of the National Hymn. 1858 - Varnhagen von Ense dies in Berlin (b. 1785). Eminent German writer, poet and historian.1860 - The original cornerstone of the University of the South was laid in Sewanee, Tennessee. 1861 - Fridtjof Nansen was born (d. 1930). Norwegian explorer, Nobel laureate in 1922.1863 - Helen Dunbar was born (d. 1933). American...