On this day: October 10

POSTED: 03:58 PM PDT Oct 09, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Oct 09, 2012 

The Beach Boys release "Good Vibrations," a rebuilt London Bridge opens in the Arizona desert, a vice president resigns, and the entertainment world loses Yul Brynner, Orson Welles and Christopher Reeve, all on this day.

OTD October 10 - El Asnam earthquake
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National Geophysical Data Center

1980: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs in the Algerian town of El Asnam, followed three hours later by a 6.3 aftershock. At least 3,500 die and another 300,000 are left homeless.

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