Here are some notable historical events that happened on October 10th throughout the years:
1767: Mason and Dixon complete their survey of the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, known as the Mason-Dixon Line.
1877: Funeral for Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer is held at West Point.
1933: United Airlines Boeing 247 explodes mid-air, one of the oldest unsolved cases in aviation history.
1935: George Gershwin’s opera “Porgy and Bess” premieres on Broadway.
1954: Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi, Vietnam, after French troop withdrawal.
1964: Tokyo Summer Olympics begin, the first Olympics held in Asia.
1967: Outer Space Treaty is enforced, establishing international space law.
1970: Fiji gains independence.
1971: London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
1973: U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns.
1979: Pac-Man arcade game is first released.
1987: Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again” tops the Billboard charts.
1994: Nobel Prize for Physiology awarded to Alfred Gilman and Martin Rodbell.
2004: Actor Christopher Reeve dies at age 52.
2006: Google acquires YouTube for $1.6 billion.
2010: Netherlands Antilles is dissolved.
2014: Malala Yousafzai, age 17, wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the youngest-ever laureate.