Page 8: Historical Events In October - 10

2013  On October - 10 alice Munro is awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for literature   

2014  Malala Yousafzai & Kailash Satyarthi win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on October - 10.   

2017  "Thor: Ragnarok" directed by Taika Waititi, starring Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Cate Blanchett premieres in Los Angeles, California on October - 10.   

2018  On this day in history hurricane Michael makes landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, as a category 4 hurricane with winds of 155 mph (250 km/h), going on to kill 27, having killed 15 in Central America   

2018  Flash floods kills at least 10 in Sant Llorenç des Cardassar, Majorca, Spain on this day in history.   

2018  On this day in history hurricane Michael makes landfall at Mexico Beach, Florida, with winds of 155 mph and a minimum pressure of 919 mbar. It is the most intense hurricane to hit the mainland United States since Camille in 1969.   

2020  On October - 10 armenia and Azerbaijan agree on a ceasefire in the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.   

2021  Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen says country won't bow to Chinese pressure in defiant speech on Taiwanese National Day, day after Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to "fulfil reunification" on October - 10.   

2023  On October - 10 revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical "Merrily We Roll Along", based on George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart 's play, opens at Hudson Theater, NYC   

2023  On this day in history uS President Joe Biden pledges support for Israel in the wake of Hamas' attack on the country and its retaliatory bombardment of Gaza [1]   

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1344  Mary Plantagenet,English princess (d. 1362) was born on October - 10.   

1486  On October - 10 birth of charles III, Duke of Savoy   

1567  On October - 10 birth of infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597)   

1599  On this day in history birth of jacob Aertsz Colom, Dutch publisher (Consolation of the Sea)   

1678  On October - 10 birth of john Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/fieldmarshal (Union of 1707)   

1684  On this day in history birth of jean Antoine Watteau, French rococo painter (Onverschillige)   

1700  On October - 10 birth of lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)   

1713  Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer was born on this day in history.   

0019  On October - 10 julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commandant of Rijnleger, dies at 33   

0413  On October - 10 death of nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57   

0680  On this day in history death of hussein, grandson of prophet Mohammed, beheaded   

0732  On this day in history death of abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia   

0833  On October - 10 death of al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786)   

1359  On this day in history death of king Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)   

1616  On October - 10 maria van Nassau, countess of Buren, dies at 60   

1651  On this day in history philippus Rovenius, [Rouveen], apostole, dies at 77