• The following list provides important anniversaries that could be commemorated in 2010.
• It can be used by teachers preparing assemblies, extension tasks and one-off lessons.
• I am limiting the list to multiples of 50 years (1960 (50 years ago today), 1910 (100 years ago today), 1860 (150 years ago today) etc).
• This is more meaningful than the “on this day in history” format (there is a 1/365 chance that any event from the entire history of civilisation has a 1/365 chance it happened “today”!)
• If you’d like to add to this list, please contact me with your suggestion or send a tweet using the hashtag #history2010.

12th October 1960 (50 years ago today) Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a table at a United Nations General Assembly meeting, to protest at the discussion of Soviet Union policy toward Eastern Europe.
17th October 1610 (400 years ago today) Louis XIII crowned
17th October 1660 (350 years ago today) The 10 Regicides are hanged, drawn and quartered.
17th October 1860 (150 years ago today) the British Open, is played for the first time at Prestwick Golf Club in Ayrshire, Scotland.
19th October 1810 (200 years ago today) Cassius Clay was born
25th October 1760 (250 years ago today) George II of England died
30th October 1960 (50 years ago today) Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom, at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.