Talk:October 10

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October 10: National Day in Fiji (1970); Double Ten Day in the Republic of China

732 – Battle of Tours (pictured): Charles Martel and the Franks defeated a large Andalusian Muslim army led by Abd er Rahman near Tours and Poitiers, stopping the northward advance of Islam from the Iberian Peninsula.
1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780: One of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record struck the Caribbean, killing at least 22,000 people over the next several days.
1911 – The Xinhai Revolution began with the Wuchang Uprising, marking the beginning of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in China.
1982 – St. Maximilian Kolbe, who had volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland, was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
1987 – After two military coups in Fiji led by Sitiveni Rabuka, the military government revoked the constitution and declared the country a republic.

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Trivial. Cannot be confirmed either. --mav

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Nope - happened on the 1st. --mav 07:10, 10 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Assuming "citing of bigfoot in japan" is grafitti:Removed

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P3d0 01:43, 10 October 2006 (UTC)