April 10

April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years). There are 265 days remaining.

For the song "April Tenth" by Garbage, see beautifulgarbage

Events

• 1741 - Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz
• 1815 - Mount Tambora eruption covers several islands with ash in Indonesia.
• 1816 - The U.S. government approved the creation of a Second Bank of the United States.
• 1865 - American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
• 1906 - The Four Million , O. Henry's second short story collection, is published.
• 1912 - The RMS Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England.
• 1916 - The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City by 82 charter members.
• 1919 - Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
• 1933 - New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps is created.
• 1938 - Édouard Daladier becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1939 - Dr. I.Q., the Mental Banker debuts.
• 1941 - World War II: The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustase fascist insurgents in power.
• 1944 - Henry Ford II is named executive vice president of Ford Motor Company.
• 1953 - The House of Wax opens at New York City's Paramount Theater (it was the first color feature in 3-D).
• 1957 - The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
• 1959 - Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, weds Michiko (née Michiko Shoda), a commoner.
• 1963 - The submarine USS Thresher is lost at sea, with all hands (129 officers, crewmen and civilian technicians)
• 1968 - Shipwreck of the Wahine outside Wellington harbour.
• 1970 - Paul McCartney announces that The Beatles have broken up.
• 1970 - Vietnam War: 48 percent of the Americans polled in a Gallup Poll approve of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon's Vietnam policy, while 41 percent disapprove.
• 1971 - Cold War: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China host the U.S. table tennis team for a weeklong visit.
• 1972 - 20 days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas.
• 1972 - Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967 American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
• 1973 - A British Vanguard turboprop crashes during a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104.
• 1979 - On the day known to meteorologists as "terrible Tuesday", a tornado hits in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people. (see Wichita Falls, Texas Tornado).
• 1988 - The comic strip Fox Trot débuts.
• 1998 - The Belfast Agreement is signed.

Births

• 1389 - Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464)
• 1512 - James V of Scotland (exact date uncertain) (d. 1542)
• 1583 - Hugo Grotius, jurist (d. 1645)
• 1755 - Samuel Hahnemann, physician, originator of homeopathy (d. 1843)
• 1778 - William Hazlitt, English writer (d. 1830)
• 1783 - Hortense de Beauharnais, queen of Holland as wife of Louis Bonaparte (d. 1837)
• 1794 - Matthew Perry, American commodore (d. 1858)
• 1829 - William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army (d. 1912)
• 1847 - Joseph Pulitzer, American journalist and publisher (d. 1911)
• 1867 - George William Russell, Irish nationalist (d. 1935)
• 1868 - George Arliss, actor (d. 1946)
• 1870 (O.S.) - Vladimir Lenin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1924)
• 1880 - Montague Summers, English writer (d. 1948)
• 1882 - Frances Perkins, American politician (d. 1965)
• 1894 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist, Gandhian, and educator (d. 1983)
• 1910 - Eddy Duchin, musician (d. 1951)
• 1913 - Stefan Heym, author (d. 2001)
• 1915 - Harry Morgan, American actor
• 1917 - Robert Burns Woodward chemist (d. 1979)
• 1918 - Jørn Utzon, Danish architect
• 1921 - Chuck Connors, American actor and baseball player (d. 1992)
• 1921 - Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (d. 2003)
• 1926 - Junior Samples, American country musician (d. 1983)
• 1929 - Max von Sydow, Swedish actor
• 1930 - Claude Bolling, French jazz composer and pianist
• 1932 - Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor
• 1934 - David Halberstam, writer
• 1934 - Vladimir Posner, Soviet journalist
• 1936 - John Madden, American football coach and broadcaster
• 1938 - Don Meredith, American football player and broadcaster
• 1941 - Paul Theroux, American author
• 1943 - Andrzej Badeński, Polish athlete
• 1946 - David Angell, American television producer (d. 2001)
• 1947 - Bunny Wailer, Jamaican musician
• 1950 - Ken Griffey, Sr., Major League Baseball player
• 1950 - Eddie Hazel, guitarist (P-Funk and The Temptations)
• 1951 - Steven Seagal, actor
• 1954 - Peter MacNicol, actor
• 1955 - Lesley Garrett, British soprano
• 1958 - Yefim Bronfman, Russian pianist
• 1958 - Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, music producer, musician, and film producer
• 1960 - Brian Setzer, musician
• 1960 - Katrina Leskanich, singer (Katrina and the Waves)
• 1960 - Afrika Bambaataa, American musician and activist
• 1962 - Steve Tasker, American football player
• 1965 - Tim Alexander, American musician
• 1968 - Orlando Jones, American actor, comedian
• 1970 - Kenny Lattimore, American singer
• 1979 - Rachel Corrie, American activist, member of the International Solidarity Movement (d. 2003)
• 1979 - Tsuyoshi Domoto, artist
• 1979 - Sophie Ellis-Bextor, singer
• 1979 - Shemekia Copeland , American singer
• 1980 - Charlie Hunnam, actor
• 1983 - Ryan Merriman, actor
• 1984 - Mandy Moore, pop singer
• 1987 - Hayley Westenra, singer
• 1988 - Haley Joel Osment, actor

Deaths

• 879 - Louis the Stammerer, king of the West Franks (b. 846)
• 1533 - Frederick I of Denmark (b. 1471)
• 1585 - Pope Gregory XIII (b. 1502)
• 1599 - Gabrielle d'Estrée, mistress of King Henry IV of France (b. 1571)
• 1813 - Joseph-Louis Lagrange mathematician (b. 1736)
• 1882 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, painter (b. 1828)
• 1909 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (b. 1909)
• 1919 - Emiliano Zapata, revolutionary (b. 1879)
• 1931 - Khalil Gibran - Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883)
• 1939 - Alfredo Panzini , writer
• 1945 - Charles Nordhoff, writer
• 1954 - Auguste Lumière, cinema pioneer (b. 1862)
• 1962 - Michael Curtiz, director (b. 1886)
• 1962 - Stuart Sutcliffe, original bass player for The Beatles (b. 1940)
• 1965 - Linda Darnell, actress (b. 1923)
• 1966 - Evelyn Waugh, writer (b. 1903)
• 1968 - Gustavs Celmins, politician (b. 1899)
• 1969 - Harley J. Earl, automobile designer, father of the Chevrolet Corvette
• 1975 - Josephine Baker, dancer (b. 1906)
• 1975 - Marjorie Main, actress (b. 1890)
• 1979 - Nino Rota, composer (b. 1911)
• 1980 - Kay Medford , American actress
• 1986 - Linda Creed, American songwriter
• 1991 - Kevin Peter Hal , American actor
• 1991 - Natalie Schafer, American actress
• 1992 - Sam Kinison, American comedian
• 1993 - Chris Hani, activist
• 1994 - Sam B. Hall, American politician (b. 1924)
• 1995 - Morarji Desai, Indian activist
• 1999 - Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, biochemist (b. 1910)
• 2000 - Peter Jones, comedian and scriptwriter (b. 1920)
• 2000 - Larry Linville, actor
• 2001 - Willie Stargell, baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1940)
• 2002 - Yuji Hyakutake, Japanese astronomer
• 2003 - Little Eva, singer (b. 1943)

Holidays and observances

• Holy Saturday (2004)

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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