Reuters historical calendar - October 10

LONDON, Oct 9 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on October 10 since 1900: 1911 - Chinese Nationalist leader Sun Yat-sen proclaimed a republic at Wuchang and began the revolution that overthrew the Manchu dynasty.

1954 - Ho Chi Minh entered Hanoi after French troops pulled out of the city following armistice terms.

1973 - US Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned after being charged with tax evasion.

1975 - Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor married for the second time at a remote location in Botswana. They divorced again the following year.

1982 - The United States imposed sanctions against Poland after its government banned the Solidarity trade union.

1985 - The American theatre, radio, film and television actor, director and producer Orson Welles died. His film ''Citizen Kane'' is widely regarded as one of the great classics.

2000 - Former Sri Lankan prime minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the world's first woman premier, died aged 84.

2001 - The White House released a list of 22 ''most wanted terrorists'', including Osma bin Laden and others indicted in connection with five major incidents in the 1980s and 1990s.

2002 - Chen Ziming, Chinese dissident and organiser of the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, was released after spending 13 years in jail.

2004 - ''Superman'' actor Christopher Reeve, who became a committed campaigner for spinal cord research after being paralysed in a riding accident in 1995, died aged 52.

2005 - Milton Obote, Uganda's first post-independence leader, died in exile in South Africa aged 80.

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