Talk:October 10
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Selected anniversaries entry for this day. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before editing this entry. --mav 00:28, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)
October 10: National Day in Fiji (1970), Double Tenth Day in the Republic of China.
- 732: Battle of Tours: Charles Martel and the Franks defeated a large Andalusian Muslim army led by Abd er Rahman near Tours and Poitiers, stopping the northward advance of Islam from the Iberian Peninsula.
- 1911: The Xinhai Revolution began with the Wuchang Uprising, marking the beginning of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in China.
- 1973: United States Vice President Spiro Agnew (pictured) resigned after being charged with tax evasion.
- 1982: St. Maximilian Kolbe, who had volunteered to die in place of another man in a Nazi concentration camp, was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1987: After two military coups in Fiji led by Sitiveni Rabuka, the military government revoked the constitution and declared Fiji a republic.
Recent days: October 9 – October 8 – October 7
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Removed:
- 1994 - DOOM II: Hell on Earth is released.
Trivial. Cannot be confirmed either. --mav
Moved:
- 1979 - Panama assumes sovereignty over the Panama Canal.
Nope - happened on the 1st. --mav 07:10, 10 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Assuming "citing of bigfoot in japan" is grafitti:Removed
Removed non-notable item:
- 2006 - The release of Namco's US version of Tales of the Abyss.
P3d0 01:43, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
