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.
The Great Hurricane of 1780 reached Barbados around October 10 and killed an estimated 22,000 people across the eastern Caribbean.
