Events and History
2010 The Country of Netherlands Antilles is Dissolved
1970 Fijian independence
1967 Outer Space Treaty is Enforced
1964 The Tokyo Summer Olympics Begin
1933 United Airlines Boeing 247 explosion
Births On This Day
- 1979 Mýa
(American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, actress)
- 1969 Brett Favre
(American football player)
- 1930 Harold Pinter
(English playwright, screenwriter, director, actor, Nobel Prize laureate)
- 1861 Fridtjof Nansen
(Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate)
- 1813 Giuseppe Verdi
(Italian composer)
Deaths On This Day – 10 October
- 2010 Solomon Burke
(American singer-songwriter)
- 2009 Stephen Gately
(Irish singer-songwriter, dancer, actor)
- 2004 Christopher Reeve
(American actor)
- 1985 Orson Welles
(American actor, director, producer, screenwriter)
- 1875 Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
(Russian poet, author, playwright)