What Happened on October 10: Great Chicago Fire

Historical Events

• 680 Al-Hussein (Al-Ḥusayn ibn) and his followers killed at Karbala by army of Yazid, the Umayyad caliph, on the way to Kufa
• 1780 Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in the Caribbean, hitting Barbados first. Atlantic’s deadliest recorded hurricane.
• 1871 The Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, leaving approximately 300 dead, 100,000 homeless, and costing $222m in damage
• 1954 Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after withdrawal of French troops
• 1957 A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, England becomes the world’s first major nuclear accident

Oct 10 in Film & TV

• 1954 1st National Film Awards (India): “Shyamchi Aai” wins the Golden Lotus

Oct 10 in Music

• 1969 “Jesus Christ Superstar” soundtrack album by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice is recorded

Oct 10 in Sport

• 1899 African-American inventor Issac R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame

Did You Know?

“Vinland Map” is introduced by Yale University as being the first known map of America, drawn about 1440

On October 10, 1965

Would You Believe?

1st dinner jacket (tuxedo) worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY

On October 10, 1886

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