Munich Agreement, Gypsy Kids at Auschwitz, Red Honduras

October 10: On This Progressive Day

The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi (National Socialist Workers' Party) Germany (1938)

Under National Socialist Workers Party officials' orders, 800 Gypsy children are systematically executed at Auschwitz death camp (1944)

The Communist Party of Honduras is founded (1954)

Vice President of the U.S. Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion (1973)

President B. Hussein Obama speaks at the Human Rights Campaign's 13th annual national dinner, to present the leftwing orthodoxy concerning civil rights and equality, gay marriage, and "Don't ask, don't tell." (2009)

At the White House, President Obama B. Hussein Obama receives the Senate Democratic Caucus, and, later, the House Republican leadership (2013)

b: Wolfram von Richthofen (1895), Khalil al-Wazir (1935), Gavin Newsom (1967); d: Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1875), Karl Genzken (1957), Clark Clifford (1998)

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