October 10 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for October 10
In the headlines today:

1985	The Achille Lauro hijackers are captured when their Egyptian plane is forced down in Italy by US attack fighters.
1979	Hockey great Wayne Gretzky makes his NHL debut, playing for the Edmonton Oilers, in a game against Chicago.
1978	US president Jimmy Carter authorizes the minting of the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin.
1977	Gridiron great Joe Namath plays in his last NFL game.
1975	Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
1973	US vice president Spiro T. Agnew resigns from office after pleading no contest to a charge of income tax evasion. (photo credit: NARA)
1970	Fiji gains its independence from Great Britain.
1970	Terrorists kidnap Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte; his body would be discovered a week later.
1964	The Olympic Games open in Tokyo.
1943	Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China.
1935	The George Gershwin opera, Porgy and Bess, premieres on Broadway.
1911	The Wuchan uprising begins in China; Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries would overthrow the Manchu dynasty.
1845	The US Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD, opens.
1614	The New Netherlands Company gets a three-year monopoly on the Dutch fur trade in America.