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On This Day Today | October 10
From the founding of Yale to the attack on Malala Yousafzai, the events that marked 10 October through the centuries.
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On This Day Today | October 1
1791: France's Legislative Assembly convenes for the first time. 1795: France conquers Belgium. 1811: The first steamboat to travel on the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans. 1843: The English newspaper News of the World begins publication. It closed on 10 July 2011 following the phone-hacking scandal. 1867: Karl Marx publishes Das Kapital, the crowning achievement of his work. 1869: Austria issues the world's first postcards. 1880: Thomas Edison opens the first electric light bulb factory. 1881: American engineer William Boeing, founder of the aircraft manufacturer that bears his name, is born. 1914: During the First World War, Ottoman Empire closes the Dardanelles Strait. 1920: American actor Walter Matthau is born. 1931: Women are granted the right to vote in Spain. 1935: British actress and singer Julie Andrews is born. 1936: Franco becomes head of the Nationalist government in Spain. 1943: French film director Jean-Jacques Annaud is born. 1946: The verdict is delivered in the Nuremberg trials, with 12 of the 22 prominent Nazi defendants sentenced to death as war criminals. 1959: Senegalese composer and singer Youssou N'Dour is born. 1965: Suharto crushes a coup that was to be launched against him in Indonesia. 1969: The Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time. 1969: In Sweden, Olof Palme is elected leader of the Social Democrats. 1971: Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida. 1973: The Watergate trial begins in Washington. 1979: The transferred date of Cyprus Independence Day is celebrated as a national holiday for the first time. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Politis to the Point (@politistothepoint) 1979: The United States returns sovereignty over the Panama Canal to Panama. 1982: Helmut Kohl is sworn in as West Germany's sixth Chancellor, succeeding Helmut Schmidt. 1985: American author E. B. White, who wrote the children's story Stuart Little in 1945, dies. 1988: Mikhail Gorbachev is named head of the Supreme Soviet. 1992: The American warship USS Saratoga accidentally fires on a Turkish destroyer taking part in an exercise in the Aegean, killing nine Turkish sailors. 1996: Amnesty International launches a campaign against Turkey, accusing it of gross human rights violations. 2006: A unilateral ceasefire declared by the Kurdish rebels of the PKK in south-eastern Turkey comes into effect. 2012: British historian and author Eric Hobsbawm dies.