Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 10
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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.
