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

A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History · Oct 9, 2026 · 6m

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…