Today in History: Hurricane Michael makes landfall in Florida, killing 57 people in 2018

Here are some of the major global events that occurred on October 10:

19 – The Roman general Germanicus dies near Antioch. He was convinced that the mysterious illness that ended in his death was a result of poisoning by the Syrian governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, whom he had ordered to leave the province.

1492 – The crew of Christopher Columbus’s ship, the Santa Maria, attempt a mutiny.

1760 – In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname – descended from escaped slaves – gain territorial autonomy.

1868 – The Ten Years’ War begins against Spanish rule in Cuba.

1903 – The Women’s Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.

1935 – In Greece, a coup d’état ends the Second Hellenic Republic.

1957 – The Windscale fire results in Britain’s worst nuclear accident.

1964 – The Tokyo Summer Olympics opening ceremony is the first to be relayed live by satellites.

2009 – Armenia and Turkey sign the Zurich Protocols, intended to normalize relations. However, they are never ratified by either side.

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.