Marseille Assassination; Hoover Dam Power; Che’s Execution; Death-Penalty Abolition; Rangoon Bombing; Phantom Premiere; Lunar Impact

Podcast: A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History · Amalia Dupray and Montgomery Jones

Opublikowano: 2026-10-09

A Daily Dose of History (10 Oct 2026) Today's historical events: An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille. Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles. A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia. President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France. South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others. The Phantom of the Opera, e...