TODAY in HISTORY: October 10

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 10

 

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1911 - Chinese Nationalist leader Sun Yat-sen proclaimed a republic at Wuchang and began the revolution that overthrew the Manchu dynasty.

 

1954 - North Vietnamese Communist leader Ho Chi Minh entered Hanoi after French troops pulled out of the city following armistice terms.

 

1975 - Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor married for the second time at a remote location in Botswana. They divorced again the following year.

 

1985 - The American theatre, radio, film and television actor, director and producer Orson Welles died. His film "Citizen Kane" is widely regarded as one of the great classics.

 

2000 - Former Sri Lankan prime minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the world's first woman premier, died aged 84.

 

2004 - "Superman" actor Christopher Reeve, who became a committed campaigner for spinal cord research after being paralysed in a riding accident in 1995, died aged 52.

 

2005 - Milton Obote, Uganda's first post-independence leader, died in exile in South Africa aged 80.

 

2006 - Indian novelist Kiran Desai succeeded where her mother Anita failed and won the Booker prize for "The Inheritance of Loss", becoming the youngest woman ever to capture one of the world's most prestigious literary awards.

 

2008 - Finland's former president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize for a long career of peace mediation work including a 2005 accord between Indonesia and rebels in its Aceh province.

 

2010 - International mascot parade in Germany attempts to break world record.

 

2015 - Twin bombs kill at least 20 in Ankara, Turkey.