WHAT HAPPENED ON 10. OCTOBER
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Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China. (10. October 1928)

United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation. (10. October 1933)

A coup d'état by the royalist leadership of the Greek Armed Forces takes place in Athens. It overthrows the government of Panagis Tsaldaris and establishes a regency under Georgios Kondylis, effectively ending the Second Hellenic Republic. (10. October 1935)

The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany. (10. October 1938)

The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia. (10. October 1942)

Double Tenth Incident in Japanese-controlled Singapore (10. October 1943)

Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp. (10. October 1944)

The Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in Chongqing about the future of post-war China. Later, the pact is commonly referred to as the Double-Ten Agreement. (10. October 1945)

Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington D.C. (10. October 1953)

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant. (10. October 1957)

The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world's first major nuclear accident. (10. October 1957)

France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia. (10. October 1963)

The opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite. (10. October 1964)

The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force. (10. October 1967)

Fiji becomes independent. (10. October 1970)

In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group. (10. October 1970)

Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. (10. October 1971)

Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion. (10. October 1973)

Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations. (10. October 1975)

A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs in the Algerian town of El Asnam. 3,500 die and 300,000 are left homeless. (10. October 1980)