TODAY is Tuesday, October 10, the 283rd day of 2017. There are 82 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:

1943 – Double Tenth Incident in Japanese-controlled

Singapore 1945 – The Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in Chongqing about the future of post-war China. Later, the pact is commonly referred to as the Double Tenth Agreement. 1957 – US President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant. 1957 – The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world’s first

major nuclear accident. 1964 – The opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite. 1967 – The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by

more than sixty nations, comes into force. 1970 – In Montreal, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group. 1973 – Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax. 1980 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs in the Algerian town of El Asnam. Around 3,500 die and 300,000 are left homeless. 1980 – FMLN was founded in El Salvador. 1985 – United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise ship, and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested. 1986 – An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people. 1997 – An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes

near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74. 1998 – A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people. 2008 – The 2008 Orakzai bombing kills 110 and injures 200

more. 2009 – Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich,

Switzerland to open their borders. 2010 – The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.