October 10

See also: Category: Holidays October 10

International

• UN - World Mental Health Day .
• European Union - European Day Against the Death Penalty ^[2] .

National

• Poland - Tree Planting Day .
• Ukraine - Day of workers of standardization and metrology of Ukraine

Religious

Orthodoxy ^{[3] [4]}

- the memory of the martyr Callistratus and his squads: Gymnasium and others ( 304 year );

- memory of Rev. Savvatiy of Solovki ( 1435 );

- memory of martyr Peter (Polyansky), Metropolitan of Krutitsky ( 1937 );

- memory of martyr Dimitri Shishokin, presbyter ( 1918 );

- Memory of martyrs Herman (Kosolapov), Bishop Volsky , and Mikhail Platonov, Prester ( 1919 )

- The memory of the martyr Theodore the Epiphany, Presbyter ( 1937 );

- the memory of the apostles from the 70th Mark , Aristarchus and Zina ( I century );

- the memory of the martyr Epiphary of Rome ( 284 - 305 years );

- The memory of St. Ignatius of Glubokorechensky (Kappadokii) ( 963-975 years );

- the memory of the martyr Anfim Iveryanin, Metropolitan of Vallach ( 1716 ) ^[5] .

Name Day

• Catholic: Peacock, Francis ^[6] .
• Orthodox: Aristarchus , Zinaida , Ignat , Callistrat , Mark, Savvaty ^[6] .

See also: Category: Events October 10

Until the XIX century

• 680 - Battle of Karbala . The event is often seen as the beginning of the separation between the Sunni and Shiite branches of Islam.
• 732 - Battle of Poitiers .
• 1471 - Wall Elder's Swedish forces defeated the Danes at the Battle of Brunckberg .
• 1503 - for the first time, Russian vodka was obtained by the Kremlin monks . Initially, vodka was used as an antiseptic .
• 1607 - the rebellion of Ivan Bolotnikov was completed with the capture of Tula .
• 1632 - the army of commander Mikhail Shein advanced to Vyazma. Began hostilities Smolensk war .
• 1789 - Church property was nationalized in revolutionary France .
• 1794 - Kosciuszko Uprising : the Battle of Matseevitsa took place, ending in the victory of the Russian army and the capture of Tadeusz Kosciuszko .

XIX century

• 1806 - War of the fourth coalition : the troops of the First Empire under the command of Marshal Lannes defeated the Prussians in the Battle of Saalfeld .
• 1846
  • despite the opposition of the British, a double wedding took place in the house of the Bourbons . Queen of Spain Isabel II married Francisco de Asis Bourbon, Duke of Cadiz , and her younger sister, heiress of the throne, Louise Fernanda of Spain - for Antoine of Orleans .
  • Triton , the largest satellite of Neptune , was discovered by the English astronomer William Lassell .
• 1853 - the first meeting of two great composers - Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt - took place. The meeting was organized by Liszt’s 15-year-old daughter Kozima, who was going to marry conductor Hans von Bülow , Liszt’s pupil and director of Wagner’s operas. Subsequently, Wagner will be her lover, and after 17 years and her husband.
• 1865 - American John Wesley Hiat patented a billiard ball. He was the first to find synthetic material to replace the ivory balls used before and won $ 10,000 in the competition.
• 1868
  • The decade-long war for Cuba’s independence from Spain began .
  • Astronomer James Watson discovered the asteroid of the main belt (106) Dion .
• 1874 - The first ever storm warning on the Baltic Sea was announced in the Russian Empire .
• 1882 - The Bank of Japan was founded.

XX century

• 1907 - The October strike began in the “ Red Thursday ” in Hungary .
• 1911 - The Uchane Uprising broke out in China , which became a catalyst for the Xinhai Revolution .
• 1918
  • As a result of the lengthy preparation of the reform, a new spelling was finally and officially introduced in Russia.
  • The passenger ship " " was torpedoed by the German submarine , killing more than 500 people. This disaster to this day is the largest scale in the number of victims in the Irish Sea .
• 1919 - The Entente and the United States declared an economic blockade of Soviet Russia .
• 1926 - The Hong Kong-Guangzhou Strike of 1925-1926 was discontinued.
• 1931 - the decision of the All - Russian Central Executive Committee assigned the name Naryan-Mard (hereinafter Naryan-Mar ) to the newly formed village in Nenets BUT .
• 1932
  • Solemnly opened DnieproGES .
  • For the first time in the USSR, a nuclear reaction was carried out at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology to split the lithium atomic nucleus.
• 1933
  • In the US, the world's first laundry detergent went on sale.
  • Plane crash "Boeing 247" at Chesterton in 1933 .
• 1935 - the premiere of George Porch and Bess, an opera by George Gershwin , on Broadway.
• 1939 - an agreement was signed between the USSR and Lithuania, according to which the Vilnius region passed to Lithuania .
• 1941
  • Commander of the Western Front appointed George Zhukov .
  • Nazi troops occupied the Ukrainian city of Sumy .
  • The referendum on the accession of Luxembourg to Germany by the fascists failed because of low turnout.
• 1943 - the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky was established in the USSR.
• 1945 - Korea Labor Party established .
• 1956 - The first production car, the Volga Gas-M21, is released.
• 1957 - US President D. Eisenhower was forced to apologize to the Minister of Finance of Ghana , who was refused to be served in a restaurant in the city of Dover ( Delaware ) because of the color of his skin.
• 1963 - The Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water entered into force.
• 1964 - The 18th Olympic Games began in Tokyo .
• 1967 - The Treaty on the Principle of the Activity of States on the Exploration and Use of Outer Space entered into force.
• 1970 - Fiji declared independent state within the British Commonwealth of Nations.
• 1973 - A secret decree of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine on strengthening the fight against unregistered religious sects was adopted.
• 1990
  • Kiev students declared a hunger strike demanding independence of Ukraine .
  • Bashkiria proclaimed itself a union republic within the USSR.
• 1993
  • Started the daily broadcasting of NTV (initially on Channel Five ).
  • On tour in Germany, the American magician David Copperfield met the German top model Claudia Schiffer , who soon became his bride.
• 1997 - French actress and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot was fined $ 1,600 by the court for trying to prevent Muslims from sacrificing the lamb.

XXI century

• 2003 - George W. Bush announced the creation of the Commission for the Promotion of Free Cuba .
• 2006 - the beginning of the social network VKontakte .

See also: Category: Born October 10

Until the XIX century

• 1465 - Selim I (d. 1520 ), 9th Ottoman Sultan (from 1512) and the 88th Caliph (from 1517).
• 1486 - Charles III of Savoy (died 1533 ), Duke of Savoy (since 1504).
• 1622 - Johann Lingelbach (died 1674 ), German baroque painter.
• 1678 - John Campbell (died 1743 ), British military leader, field marshal .
• 1684 - Jean Antoine Watteau (d. 1721 ), French artist, founder and largest master of the Rococo style ("Capricious", "Pilgrimage to Kiefer Island").
• 1731 - Henry Cavendish (d. 1810 ), English physicist and chemist, who discovered the formula of water and "measured" the mass of the Earth.
• 1738 - Benjamin West (d. 1820 ), Anglo-American artist.

XIX century

• 1813 - Giuseppe Verdi (died 1901 ), Italian composer.
• 1821 - Mikhail Avdeev (d. 1876 ), Russian writer, fiction writer , critic.
• 1830 - Isabella II (d. 1904 ), Queen of Spain (1833–1868).
• 1834 - Alexis Kivi (real surname Stenval ; d. 1872 ), Finnish playwright (“The Shoemakers of Nummi”, “Seven Brothers”, etc.), founder of the Finnish literary language.
• 1849 - Karl Lang (died 1893 ), German meteorologist and teacher ; member of Leopoldina .
• 1858 - Maurice Prendergast (d. 1924 ), American watercolor painter.
• 1861 - Fridtjof Nansen (died 1930 ), Norwegian polar explorer, the first to cross Greenland on skis, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1922).
• 1863 - Vladimir Obruchev (died 1956 ), Russian Soviet geologist and geographer, academician, author of the science fiction novels Plutonium and Sannikov Land.
• 1874 - Konstantin Minyar-Beloruchev (died 1944 ), Russian and Soviet cellist , teacher, composer.
• 1889 - Han van Meegeren (died 1947 ), Dutch painter.
• 1898 - Maria Kravchunovskaya (died 1978 ), theater and film actress, honored actress of the RSFSR.

XX century

• 1901 - Alberto Giacometti (d. 1966 ), Swiss sculptor and painter.
• 1906 - Razipuram Krishnaswami Narayan (d. 2001 ), Indian writer.
• 1909 - Bruno Freindlich (d. 2002 ), theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR, Alice Freindlich's father.
• 1913
  • Janice Carter (d. 1994 ), American actress, starring in the 1940-1950-ies.
  • Claude Simon (d. 2005 ), French writer (“The Battle of Farsale”, “Road of Flanders”, etc.), Nobel Prize winner (1985).
• 1917 - Thelonious Monk (d. 1982 ), American pianist and composer, one of the founders of modern jazz.
• 1924
  • James Clavell (d. 1994 ), American writer and screenwriter.
  • Lyudmila Cherina (d. 2004 ), French ballerina and actress of Circassian origin.
• 1928 - Leyla Gendzher (d. 2008 ), Turkish opera singer ( soprano ).
• 1930
  • Medea Amiranashvili , opera singer (soprano), People's Artist of the USSR.
  • Harold Pinter (d. 2008 ), English playwright, director, actor, Nobel Prize in Literature (2005).
• 1938 - Daido Moriyama , Japanese photographer.
• 1939 - Aida Imanguliyeva (d. 1992 ), Azerbaijani Arabist , doctor and professor of Oriental studies .
• 1946
  • Leonid Tyagachev , former president of the Russian Olympic Committee (2001-2010).
  • Franco Malerba , the first Italian astronaut .
• 1947 - Francis Perrin , French actor, director and screenwriter.
• 1954
  • David Lee Roth , American singer, songwriter, actor, vocalist for the Van Halen rock band.
  • Sergey Snezhkin , film director, screenwriter and actor, People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
• 1955
  • Alexander Bubnov , a Soviet football player.
  • Hippolyte Girardot , French theater and film actor.
• 1966 - Tony Adams , English football player.
• 1968 - Philip Yankovsky , Russian actor and film director.
• 1969 - Alexei Kravchenko , theater and film actor, Honored Artist of Russia.
• 1971
  • Evgeny Kissin , pianist, classical musician.
  • Carlos Reigadas , Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer.
• 1974 - Grigory Antipenko , Russian theater and film actor.
• 1984 - Pavel Durov , Russian programmer, one of the creators of the social network VKontakte .
• 1986 - Esequiel Garay , Argentine footballer, defender of the Argentina national team, Olympic champion (2008).

See also: Category: Dead October 10

Until the XIX century

• 19 - Nero Claudius Druz Germanic (born 15 BC ), Roman general and statesman, consul.
• 1791 - Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (b. 1739 ), German poet, organist, composer, journalist and writer.

XIX century

• 1825 - Dmitry Bortnyansky (b. 1751 ), Russian composer and conductor.
• 1837 - Francois Marie Charles Fourier (b. 1772 ), French utopian socialist.
• 1844 - Peter Tolstoy , military leader of the era of the Napoleonic Wars , General of Infantry.
• 1872 - William Seward (b. 1801 ), American politician, US Secretary of State (1861–1869).
• 1873 - Hermann Kurtz (b. 1813 ), German writer, fiction writer and literary historian.
• 1875 - Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (b. 1817 ), Russian writer, playwright, one of the creators of the image of Kozma Prutkov.
• 1886 - Ekaterina Zbukireva , the first of the Russian sisters of mercy; participated in the Crimean and Russian-Turkish wars.

XX century

• 1937
  • Paul Vaillant-Couturier (b. 1892 ), French writer, leader of the communist movement.
  • Vasily Oschepkov (born 1893 ), one of the founders of the Sambo wrestling .
• 1963 - Edith Piaf (b. 1915 ), French singer, chansonnier .
• 1964 - Heinrich Neuhaus (b. 1888 ), Ukrainian pianist of German origin, teacher, professor at the Moscow Conservatory .
• 1976 - Gleb Frank (born 1904 ), Soviet biophysicist, academician, director of the Institute of Biological Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences .
• 1984 - Vitaly Zakrutkin (b. 1908 ), Soviet writer.
• 1985
  • Yul Brynner (b. 1915 ), American theater and film actor.
  • Orson Welles (born 1915 ), American film director, actor and screenwriter, winner of two Oscars .
• 1991 - Lidia Sukharevskaya (b. 1909 ), Soviet theater and film actress.
• 1994 - Mikhail Danilov (b. 1937 ), Soviet theater and film actor.
• 1998 - Vladimir Yakovlev (b. 1934 ), Russian artist, representative of unofficial art.
• 2000 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike (b. 1916 ), the world's first female prime minister ( Sri Lanka ).

XXI century

• 2004 - Christopher Reeve (b. 1952 ), American theater and film actor, director, screenwriter.
• 2007 - Vladimir Soshalsky (b. 1929 ), theater and film actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 2008 - Alexey Prokurorov (born 1964 ), Soviet and Russian skier , world and Olympic champion.
• 2009
  • Iskander Khamrayev (b. 1934 ), Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter.
  • Stephen Gately (b. 1976 ), one of the leaders of the Irish pop band " Boyzone ".
• 2010 - Joan Sutherland (b. 1926 ), Australian opera singer.
• 2012 - Gleb Skorokhodov (born 1930 ), Soviet and Russian writer, playwright, journalist, film expert.

• Savvaty Pchelnik, Savatiy Beekeeper. At Savvatiya, the hives are being cleaned up in omshaniki ^[7] .
• Today is the last day of the bee-nine. Zosim and Sawa - the patrons of the bees - they treat people with honey cookies.
• The queen bee carries the keys from the summer to the distant warm edges. About her folded among the people: “Not a girl, not a widow, not a husband's wife. He leads children and feeds people ” ^[8] .