Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 10

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 * 1760 – In a treaty with Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname gained territorial autonomy.
 * 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.
 * 1846 – English astronomer William Lassell discovered Triton, the largest moon of Neptune.
 * 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, came into effect.
 * 1973 – U.S. vice president Spiro Agnew (pictured) resigned after being charged with tax evasion.
 * 1992 – After 20 years of construction, Vidyasagar Setu, the longest cable-stayed bridge in India, was opened, joining Kolkata and Howrah.
 * Born/died: | Paulinus of York |d|644| Mary of Waltham |b|1344| John Paston |b|1421| Antoine Coysevox |d|1720|Samuel J. Randall |b|1828| George Washington Parke Custis |d|1857| Phoebe Hinsdale Brown |d|1861| Blanche Lazzell |b|1878| Luang Pu Sodh Candasaro|b|1884| Han van Meegeren |b|1889| Phillip Davey |b|1896 R. K. Narayan |b|1906| Kim Ki-young|b|1919| Harold Pinter |b|1930| Beatriz Michelena |d|1942| Priaulx Rainier |d|1986| Kazuyoshi Miura |d|2008

October 10


 * 680 – Husayn ibn Ali, a grandson of Muhammad, was killed at the Battle of Karbala by the forces of Yazid I, whom Husayn had refused to recognize as caliph.
 * 1903 – Emmeline Pankhurst (pictured) founded the Women's Social and Political Union, a militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom.
 * 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.