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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_10" title="October 10">October 10</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/680" title="680">680</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husayn_ibn_Ali" title="Husayn ibn Ali">Husayn ibn Ali</a>, a grandson of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad">Muhammad</a>, was killed at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Karbala" title="Battle of Karbala">Battle of Karbala</a></b> by the forces of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazid_I" title="Yazid I">Yazid I</a>, whom Husayn had refused to recognize as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliphate" title="Caliphate">caliph</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903" title="1903">1903</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmeline_Pankhurst" title="Emmeline Pankhurst">Emmeline Pankhurst</a> founded the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Social_and_Political_Union" title="Women's Social and Political Union">Women's Social and Political Union</a></b>, a militant organisation campaigning for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom">women's suffrage in the United Kingdom</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911" title="1911">1911</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911_Revolution" title="1911 Revolution">Xinhai Revolution</a></b> began with the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuchang_Uprising" title="Wuchang Uprising">Wuchang Uprising</a></b>, marking the beginning of the collapse of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing_dynasty" title="Qing dynasty">Qing dynasty</a> and the establishment of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China_(1912%E2%80%931949)" title="Republic of China (1912–1949)">Republic of China</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943" title="1943">1943</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>: The <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kempeitai" title="Kempeitai">Kempeitai</a></i>, the military police arm of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Army" title="Imperial Japanese Army">Imperial Japanese Army</a>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Tenth_incident" title="Double Tenth incident">arrested and tortured</a></b> fifty-seven civilians and civilian internees on suspicion of their involvement in a raid on Singapore Harbour.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004" title="2004">2004</a> – Eight-year-old <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Huang_Na" title="Murder of Huang Na">Huang Na</a></b> was abducted and murdered; her body was found three weeks later after a search across Singapore and Malaysia.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanicus" title="Germanicus">Germanicus</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> AD 19); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fridtjof_Nansen" title="Fridtjof Nansen">Fridtjof Nansen</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1861); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rekha" title="Rekha">Rekha</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1954); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Diamandis" title="Marina Diamandis">Marina Diamandis</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1985)</p>
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