October 10
People born on this day are Libra.
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US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and force it to land in Italy.
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A 5.7 Mw San Salvador earthquake shakes El Salvador, killing 1,500.
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Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.
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A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
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Iraq War: The United States Congress approves the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.
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Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor becomes the first Malaysian in space on board Soyuz TMA-11.
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Armenia and Turkey sign the Zurich Protocols, intended to normalize relations. However, they are never ratified by either side.
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The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.
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Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara kill 109 and injure 500+.
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Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage.
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The National Fire and Rescue Administration is founded, replacing the China Fire Services [zh] and the People's Armed Police Forestry Corps [zh] as China's primary firefighting agency.
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Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig are jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
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2002Josh Giddey, Australian basketball player
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1996Sami Niku, Finnish ice hockey player
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1995Brenko Lee, Australian-Tongan rugby league player
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1995Courtland Sutton, American football player
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1994Bae Suzy, South Korean singer, actress and model
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1994Mike Tobey, American-Slovenian basketball player
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1994Marquez Valdes-Scantling, American football player
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1993Lourdes Gurriel Jr., Cuban baseball player
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1993Jayden Stockley, English footballer
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1992Anthony Brown, American basketball player
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1991Michael Carter-Williams, American basketball player
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1991Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer-songwriter and producer
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