Browse Historical Events by Day: What Happened on October 10th?

The Battle of Tours takes place in France, where Frankish forces under Charles Martel defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, The large invading Islamic army was led by Emir Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi Abd al Rahman. During the battle, the Franks defeated the Islamic army and Emir Abd er Rahman was killed. This battle stopped the northward advance of Islam from the Iberian peninsula, and is considered by most historians to be of macro historical importance, in that it halted the Islamic conquests, during a period in which Islam was conquering the remains of the old Roman and Persian Empires. More

Cuba Independence Day. It Commemorates the beginning of the 10 years unsuccessful war of independence from Spain from 1868 -78. and the the U.S. intervention in 1898 that ended the Spanish colonial presence in the Americas. Following the war, U.S. forces occupied Cuba until 1902, when the United States allowed a new Cuban government to take full control of the state’s affairs. As a condition of independence, the United States forced Cuba to grant a continuing U.S. right to intervene on the island in accordance with the Platt Amendment. The amendment was repealed in 1934 when the United States and Cuba signed a Treaty of Relations.

Fiji's Independence Day from the UK. (Fiji Day) Commemorates the signing of the Instruments of Independence.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee announces the award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2010 to imprisioned Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. The laureate, once an eminent scholar, was reportedly little-known inside the People's Republic of China (PRC) at the time of the award, he had participated in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and was a co-author of the Charter 08 manifesto, for which he was sentenced to 11 years in prison on 25 December 2009. More

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 is awarded jointly to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education." More