History for October 10 - On-This-Day.com
Giuseppe Verdi 1813, Helen Hayes 1900, Ben Vereen 1946
David Lee Roth (Van Halen) 1954, Brett Favre (NFL) 1969, Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. 1974 - Race car driver
1845 - The United States Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, MD.
1865 - The billiard ball was patented by John Wesley Hyatt.
1911 - China's Manchu dynasty was overthrown by revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen.
1913 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike that ended the construction of the Panama Canal.
1933 - Dreft, the first synthetic detergent, went on sale.
1938 - Nazi Germany completed its annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
1959 - Pan American World Airways announced the beginning of the first global airline service.
1965 - The Red Baron made his first appearance in the "Peanuts" comic strip.
1978 - The U.S. bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar was signed by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
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