On This Day — 10 October

• 2018 — Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage.
• 2018 — The National Fire and Rescue Administration is founded, replacing the China Fire Services [zh] and the People's Armed Police Forestry Corps [zh] as China's primary firefighting agency.
• 2015 — Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara kill 109 and injure 500+.
• 1986 — A 5.7 Mw San Salvador earthquake shakes El Salvador, killing 1,500.
• 1980 — The 7.1 Mw El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369.
• 1971 — Aeroflot Flight 773 is destroyed by a bomb over Moscow Oblast, killing 25.
• 1957 — The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident.
• 1913 — U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.
• 1911 — The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.
• 1780 — The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.

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