📜 This Day in History

October 10

• 680Husayn 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.
• 1846English astronomer William Lassell discovered Triton, the largest moon of Neptune.
• 1911The 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.
• 1943World 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.
• 1973U.S. vice president Spiro Agnew resigned after being charged with tax evasion.
• 2004Eight-year-old Huang Na was abducted and murdered; her body was found three weeks later after a search across Singapore and Malaysia.

Born on this day

• 1813Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer and philanthropist (died 1901)
• 1861Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, scientist, and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1930)
• 1930Harold Pinter, English playwright, screenwriter, director Nobel Prize laureate (died 2008)
• 1946Naoto Kan, Japanese lawyer and politician, 61st Prime Minister of Japan