April 10
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April 10 is the 101st day of the year (102nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 264 days remaining after April 10 until the end of the year.
[change] 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, Hungarian-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)
- 1873 – Kyosti Kallio, President of Finland (d. 1940)
- 1880 – Mohammed Nadir Shah, King of Afghanistan (d. 1933)
- 1880 – Montague Summers, English writer (d. 1948)
- 1882 – Frances Perkins, American politician (d. 1965)
- 1887 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian doctor, won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (d. 1971)
- 1894 – Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist, Gandhian, and educator (d. 1983)
- 1899 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)
- 1910 – Eddy Duchin, musician (d. 1951)
- 1913 – Stefan Heym, German author (d. 2001)
- 1915 – Harry Morgan, American actor (d. 2011)
- 1917 – Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist (d. 1979)
- 1918 – Jørn Utzon, Danish architect (d. 2008)
- 1921 – Chuck Connors, American actor and baseball player (d. 1992)
- 1921 – Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (d. 2003)
- 1924 – Kenneth Noland, American painter (d. 2010)
- 1926 – Junior Samples, American country musician (d. 1983)
- 1927 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biochemist, won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (d. 2010)
- 1929 – Max von Sydow, Swedish actor
- 1930 – Claude Bolling, French jazz composer and pianist
- 1931 – Luis Cabral, 1st President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2009)
- 1932 – Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor
- 1934 – David Halberstam, writer
- 1934 – Vladimir Posner, Soviet journalist
- 1935 – Nicola Cabibbo, Italian physicist (d. 2010)
- 1936 – John Madden, American football coach and broadcaster
- 1937 – Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet (d. 2010)
- 1938 – Don Meredith, American football player and broadcaster (d. 2010)
- 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, American singer (Katrina and the Waves)
- 1960 – Afrika Bambaataa, American musician and activist
- 1962 – Steve Tasker, American football player
- 1963 – Doris Leuthard, Swiss politician
- 1963 – Mark Oliver Everett, American musician
- 1965 – Tim Alexander, American musician
- 1968 – Orlando Jones, American actor, comedian
- 1970 – Kenny Lattimore, American singer
- 1973 – Roberto Carlos, Brazilian footballer
- 1979 – Rachel Corrie, American activist, member of the International Solidarity Movement (d. 2003)
- 1979 – Tsuyoshi Domoto, artist
- 1979 – Sophie Ellis-Bextor, English singer
- 1979 – Shemekia Copeland, American singer
- 1980 – Charlie Hunnam, actor
- 1981 – Liz McClarnon, English singer (Atomic Kitten)
- 1983 – Ryan Merriman, actor
- 1984 – Mandy Moore, American singer and actress
- 1986 – Vincent Kompany, Belgian footballer
- 1987 – Hayley Westenra, New Zealand singer
- 1988 – Haley Joel Osment, American actor
- 1990 – Alex Pettyfer, English actor
- 1991 – Amanda Michalka, American actress and singer
- 2007 – Princess Ariane of the Netherlands
[change] 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)
- 1862 – W.H.L. Wallace Union brigadier general (b. 1821)
- 1882 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, painter (b. 1828)
- 1909 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (b. 1909)
- 1919 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1879)
- 1931 – Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883)
- 1939 – Alfredo Panzini, Italian writer (b. 1863)
- 1945 – Charles Nordhoff, writer (b. 1887)
- 1954 – Auguste Lumière, French film pioneer (b. 1862)
- 1962 – Michael Curtiz, director (b. 1886)
- 1962 – Stuart Sutcliffe, musician (The Beatles) (b. 1940)
- 1965 – Linda Darnell, actress (b. 1923)
- 1966 – Evelyn Waugh, English writer (b. 1903)
- 1968 – Gustavs Celmins, politician (b. 1899)
- 1969 – Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer
- 1975 – Josephine Baker, American dancer (b. 1906)
- 1975 – Marjorie Main, actress (b. 1890)
- 1979 – Nino Rota, Italian composer (b. 1911)
- 1980 – Kay Medford, American actress (b. 1914)
- 1986 – Linda Creed, American songwriter (b. 1948)
- 1991 – Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (b. 1955)
- 1991 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (b. 1900)
- 1992 – Sam Kinison, American comedian (b. 1953)
- 1993 – Chris Hani, activist (b. 1942)
- 1994 – Sam B. Hall, American politician (b. 1924)
- 1995 – Morarji Desai, Indian activist and politician, Prime Minister of India (b. 1896)
- 1995 – Guenther Guillaume, German spy (b. 1927)
- 1997 – Michael Dorris, American author (b. 1945)
- 1999 – Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, biochemist (b. 1910)
- 2000 – Peter Jones, comedian and scriptwriter (b. 1920)
- 2000 – Larry Linville, actor (b. 1939)
- 2001 – Willie Stargell, American baseball player (b. 1940)
- 2002 – Yuji Hyakutake, Japanese astronomer (b. 1950)
- 2003 – Little Eva, American singer (b. 1943)
- 2010 – Dixie Carter, American actress (b. 1939)
- 2010 – Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish politician (b. 1919) (plane crash)
- 2010 – Lech Kaczynski, President of Poland (b. 1949) (plane crash)
- 2010 – Maria Kaczynska, First Lady of Poland (b. 1942) (plane crash)
[change] 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.
- 1849 – Walter Hunt receives a patent for the safety pin.
- 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 FoxTrot débuts.
- 1992 – The Maraghar Massacre, killing of ethnic Armenian civil population of the village Maraghar by Azerbaijani troops during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
- 1998 – The Belfast Agreement is signed.
- 2006 – In a close election, Romano Prodi is elected Prime Minister of Italy, succeeding Silvio Berlusconi, who later regains this position, in 2008.
- 2010 – A plane crash in Smolensk, western Russia, kills 96 people. Many of them were very important in Poland, including President Lech Kaczynski. They were on their way to a memorial service to commemorate 70 years since the Katyn Massacre.
