Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On October 10, 1911, mutinying soldiers in Wuchang sparked a revolt that ended more than two thousand years of Chinese imperial rule.
British brewer-turned-astronomer William Lassell spotted Triton on October 10, 1846, barely two weeks after Neptune itself appeared.
With no money from Congress, the Navy quietly stood up an officer school on a sleepy Army fort beside the Severn River.
The Great Hurricane of 1780 reached Barbados around October 10 and killed an estimated 22,000 people across the eastern Caribbean.
