10th October anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1859
  • "Birth of Maurice Prendergast, Canadian-born American artist"
  • 1959
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Kirsty MacColl, British singer (Fairytale of New York, There’s A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis, Days, etc)." more
• event
  • 1903
  • Great Britain
  • Emmeline Pankhurst forms the Suffragette Movement
  • 1933
  • "A United Airlines Boeing 247 was destroyed by an explosive device while flying from Cleveland, Ohio to Chicago. This was the first proven case of."
  • 1959
  • Pan American World Airlines announced the first global airline service
  • 1972
  • John Betjeman becomes Poet Laureate
  • 1979
  • The Pac-Man arcade game was released in Japan
  • 1999
  • The London Eye was raised into position over the River Thames
• Death
  • 1659
  • "Death of Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer and merchant, first European to reach Tasmania, New Zealand and Fiji, mapped large parts of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands"
  • 1983
  • "Death of Ralph Richardson, British actor ."