Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 10

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• Maximilian Kolbe
  Maximilian Kolbe
• Chiang Kai-shek
  Chiang Kai-shek
• Seal of the United States Naval Academy
  Seal of the United States Naval Academy
• Battle of Tours
  Battle of Tours
• Vidyasagar Setu
  Vidyasagar Setu
• Triton, moon of Neptune
  Triton, moon of Neptune
• Spiro Agnew
  Spiro Agnew
• Yoshinori Sakai on his way to light the Olympic cauldron
  Yoshinori Sakai on his way to light the Olympic cauldron
• Emmeline Pankhurst
  Emmeline Pankhurst
• Burning of Nottingham Castle
  Burning of Nottingham Castle

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
National Day in Fiji (1970) and Taiwan (1911)	Fiji: refimprove section; Taiwan: refimprove section
732 – Charles Martel and the Franks defeated a large Andalusian Muslim army led by Abd er Rahman at the Battle of Tours near Tours and Poitiers.	refimprove section
1831 – Angry at the defeat of the Second Reform Bill a crowd burnt down Nottingham Castle, England, home of the Duke of Newcastle, who had opposed the bill in parliament (pictured).	Date not cited in article
1845 – The United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, opened with 50 midshipmen students.	refimprove section, unreferenced section
1868 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes made the Grito de Yara, declaring Cuban independence from Spain, sparking the Ten Years' War.	lots of CN tags (13)
1919 – German composer Richard Strauss' opera Die Frau ohne Schatten premiered in Vienna.	unreferenced section
1928 – General Chiang Kai-shek was named to be Chairman of the National Military Council, giving him leadership of the Republic of China.	inappropriate tone, refimprove section
1962 – The German news magazine Der Spiegel revealed the unpreparedness of the West German armed forces against the communist threat from the east, and was accused of treason shortly afterwards.	lots of CN tags in one section
1964 – The opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics took place in Tokyo, becoming the first Games to be held in Asia and the first to be broadcast live internationally via satellite.	unreffed sections
1967 – The Outer Space Treaty, a treaty that forms the basis of international space law, entered into force.	Unref section
1982 – Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish friar who had volunteered to die in place of a stranger in Auschwitz concentration camp, was canonized by the Catholic Church.	Low quality sources
1998 – General Augusto Pinochet was indicted for human rights violations committed in his native Chile and arrested in London six days later.	refimprove section
2010 – The Netherlands Antilles was dissolved as a constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.	unreferenced section
Sports Day in Japan (2022) ;	large % unsourced
Gavin Newsom |b|1967|	Birthday unsourced
Han van Meegeren |b|1889|	Too much uncited
Adolphus Busch |d|1913|	Deathdate not cited
Umar Wirahadikusumah|b|1924|	Too much uncited

Eligible

• 1846 – English astronomer William Lassell discovered Triton, the largest moon of Neptune.
• 1903 – Emmeline Pankhurst (pictured) founded the Women's Social and Political Union, a militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom.
• 1933 – In the first proven act of sabotage in the history of commercial aviation, a Boeing 247 operated by United Airlines exploded in mid-air near Chesterton, Indiana, killing all seven people aboard.
• 1963 – The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibits all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those conducted underground, went into effect.
• 1973 – U.S. vice president Spiro Agnew resigned after being charged with tax evasion.
• 1992 – After 20 years of construction, Vidyasagar Setu, the longest cable-stayed bridge in India, opened, joining Kolkata and Howrah.
• Born/died: | Germanicus|d|AD 19| Paulinus of York |d|644| Mary of Waltham |b|1344| John Paston |b|1421| Samuel J. Randall |b|1828| William D. Hoard |b|1836| George Washington Parke Custis |d|1857| Phoebe Hinsdale Brown |d|1861| Fridtjof Nansen|b|1861|Blanche Lazzell |b|1878| Luang Pu Sodh Candasaro|b|1884| Phillip Davey |b|1896| [[R. K. Narayan|Template:Nowrap Narayan]] |b|1906| Kim Ki-young|b|1919| Harold Pinter |b|1930| Beatriz Michelena |d|1942|Rekha |b|1954| Sarah Lancashire|b|1964| Kazuyoshi Miura |d|2008

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• 680 – Husayn ibn Ali, a grandson of Muhammad, was killed at the Battle of Karbala (depicted) by the forces of Yazid I, whom Husayn had refused to recognize as caliph.
• 1760 – In a treaty with Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname gained territorial autonomy.
• 1911 – The Xinhai Revolution began with the Wuchang Uprising, marking the beginning of the collapse of the Qing dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China.
• 1943 – World War II: The Kempeitai, the military police arm of the Imperial Japanese Army, arrested and tortured fifty-seven civilians and civilian internees on suspicion of their involvement in a raid on Singapore Harbour.
• 2004 – Eight-year-old Huang Na was abducted and murdered; her body was found three weeks later after a search across Singapore and Malaysia.