October 10: National Day in Fiji (1970) and Taiwan (1911)
Aspirin pills
- 1780 – One of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record struck the Caribbean Sea, killing at least 22,000 people over the next several days.
- 1897 – German chemist Felix Hoffman discovered an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) (pills pictured).
- 1933 – In the first proven act of air sabotage in the history of commercial aviation, a United Airlines Boeing 247 exploded in mid-air near Chesterton, Indiana, US, killing all seven people aboard.
- 1967 – The Outer Space Treaty, a treaty that forms the basis of international space law, entered into force.
- 1982 – Maximilian Kolbe, who had volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland, was canonized by the Catholic Church.
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