Notable Historical Events on April 10th
April 10th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
837 |
Comet 1P/837 F1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0334 AUs of Earth |
847 |
St Leo IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
879 |
Louis III becomes King of West Francia. |
1407 |
the lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing. He is awarded with the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma. |
1500 |
France captures duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan |
1516 |
1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice |
1552 |
Henri II of France occupies Metz |
1589 |
Spanish troops conquer Geertruidenberg |
1656 |
Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo Ceylon |
1694 |
Duke Victor Amadeus of Savoye attacks Casale |
1710 |
The first law regulating copyright is issued in Great Britain. |
1741 |
War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz. |
1790 |
US Patent system forms |
1815 |
Austria declares war on realm of Naples |
1816 |
2nd Bank of US chartered |
1821 |
Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Turks from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus. |
1825 |
1st hotel in Hawaii opens |
1825 |
Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Leon |
1826 |
The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Messolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive. |
1835 |
Charles Darwin returns to Santiago, Chile |
1841 |
New York Tribune begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley |
1845 |
More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh, Pa |
1849 |
Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC); sold rights for $400 |
1856 |
The Theta Chi Fraternity is founded at Norwich University. |
1858 |
"Big Ben", a 13.76 tonne bell, is recast in the Tower of Westminster |
1863 |
Rebel Gen Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tenn |
1864 |
Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico |
1865 |
At Appomattox, General Robert E. Lee issues Gen Order #9, his last |
1866 |
American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms |
1868 |
1st performance of John Brahms' "A German Requiem" |
1868 |
British defeat King of Abyssinia at Magdala |
1869 |
Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9 |
1869 |
José Martí founds the Cuban Revolutionary Party. |
1871 |
William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park accepted |
1872 |
1st National black convention meets in New Orleans |
1872 |
1st Arbor Day celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22 |
1877 |
1st human cannonball act performed in London |
1877 |
Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia, SC |
1878 |
California St Cable Car RR Co starts service |
1882 |
Captain William Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii) |
1884 |
US Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo |
1887 |
President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield, Ilinois |
1887 |
Soccer team Be Quick forms in Hairs Groningen |
1896 |
Spiridon Louis wins 1st Olympic marathon (2:58:50) |
1912 |
RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton for her maiden (and final) voyage |
1913 |
President Woodrow Wilson throws out 1st ball, Senators beat Yankees 2-1 |
1913 |
Walter Johnson begins string of 56 consecutive scoreless innings |
1913 |
During the Montenegrin siege of Scutari, the Montenegrin coastline is blockaded |
1916 |
1st professional golf tournament held |
1916 |
The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City. |
1917 |
Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers |
1919 |
Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos. |
1923 |
Hitler demands "hatred & more hatred" in Berlin |
1924 |
Tubular steel golf club shafts approved for championship play |
1925 |
Tsaritsyn re-named Stalingrad (now Volgograd) |
1925 |
Scribners publishes "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald |
1930 |
George Headley scores 223 v England at Kingston |
1930 |
Synthetic rubber 1st produced |
1932 |
Paul von Hindenburg elected 1st German president (Hitler is 2nd) |
1934 |
Stanley Cup: Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 3 games to 1 |
1935 |
Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London |
1936 |
200" mirror blank arrives in Pasadena |
1938 |
2nd government of Blum replaced by Daladier government in France |
1938 |
Austria becomes a state of Germany |
1938 |
NY makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license |
1939 |
Colijn's Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews |
1939 |
Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania |
1940 |
Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian "national government" |
1941 |
German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica |
1942 |
Cigarettes & candy rationed in Holland |
1943 |
12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape nazis |
1943 |
General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia |
1944 |
"Patrolling the Ether" is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously |
1944 |
Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazis |
1945 |
Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech) |
1945 |
Canadian troops conquer Deventer |
1945 |
General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland" |
1945 |
German troops attack Ijsselbrug |
1945 |
NFL's Boston Yanks & Brooklyn Tigers merge |
1945 |
US troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa |
1945 |
William Schuman & Antony Tudors ballet premieres in NYC |
1946 |
1st election for Japanese Diet |
1947 |
King Frederik IX of Denmark crowned |
1948 |
Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek |
1949 |
13th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 282 |
1953 |
"House of Wax", 1st 3-D movie, released (NYC) |
1953 |
7th NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 1 |
1954 |
KRGV TV channel 5 in Weslaco, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
19th Golf Masters Championship: Cary Middlecoff wins, shooting a 279 |
1955 |
9th NBA Championship: Syrac Nats beat Ft Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 3 |
1955 |
Dr Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine |
1955 |
Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely |
1956 |
Philips broadcasts 1st Dutch color TV programs |
1956 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1 |
1957 |
John Osborne's "Entertainer" premieres in London |
1957 |
Jordanian government of Naboelsi resigns |
1957 |
Suez canal reopens for all traffic |
1957 |
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test |
1958 |
Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco |
1960 |
24th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 282 |
1960 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
1960 |
Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill |
1961 |
25th Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 280 |
1961 |
Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel |
1961 |
Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to JFK about New Guinea |
1961 |
New Wash Senators loses 1st regular-season game 4-3 to White Sox |
1962 |
1st baseball game at LA's Dodger Stadium, they lose 6-3 to Reds |
1962 |
1st major league game in Houston, Colt .45s beat Chicago Cubs, 11-2 |
1962 |
NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits his 375th HR |
1963 |
USS Thresher, a nuclear powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Boston |
1963 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1964 |
Demolition begins on Polo Grounds to clear way for housing project |
1964 |
Iranian motor launch catches fire & sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf) |
1967 |
39th Academy Awards - "Man For All Seasons," best picture, Elizabeth Taylor & Paul Scofield best actress/actor |
1968 |
Ferry Wahine sinks in Wellington harbour, New Zealand on route from Lyttelton (51 killed) |
1968 |
"George M!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 435 performances |
1968 |
40th Academy Awards - "Heat of the Night", Rod Steiger & Katherine Hepburn win |
1968 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1970 |
Paul McCartney officially announces the split of The Beatles |
1971 |
1st baseball game at Phila's Veterans Stadium, Phils beat Expos 4-1 |
1971 |
US table tennis team arrives in China PR |
1971 |
The Republican commemorations is held in Belfast of the Easter Rising (in 1916 in Dublin), revealing conflicts between the two wings of the Irish Republican Army |
1972 |
7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars |
1972 |
US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons |
1972 |
20 days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas. |
1972 |
Two British soldiers are killed in a bomb attack in Derry |
1973 |
BEA flight to Basel Switz, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143 |
1973 |
KC opens its new park, Royals Stadium, with 12-1 rout of Rangers |
1973 |
Pakistan suspends constitution |
1974 |
American Boccaccio Association forms |
1974 |
Magicians Penn & Teller 1st meet |
1974 |
Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli PM Golda Meir |
1975 |
Rangers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs |
1976 |
Brewers' Don Money's grand slammer disallowed-Yanks win 9-7 |
1976 |
Cleveland Cavaliers win their 1st NBA Central Division title |
1977 |
41st Golf Masters Championship: Tom Watson wins, shooting a 276 |
1977 |
Beverly Klass wins LPGA Women's International Golf Satellite |
1977 |
Cleveland Indians set club record for longest, 9 inn game (3:17) |
1978 |
Formation of Major Indoor Soccer League announced |
1979 |
J R Richard throws major league record 6 wild pitches in Astrodome |
1979 |
Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian |
1979 |
Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people. |
1981 |
"Caveman" with Ringo premieres |
1981 |
Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded |
1981 |
France performs nuclear test |
1981 |
Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament |
1982 |
LA Kings losing 5-0 to Edmonton in 3rd period, win in OT 6-5 |
1982 |
Penguins 2-Isles 1 (OT)-Preliminary- Isles hold 2-1 lead |
1983 |
Baltimore's Eddie Murray hits his 1,000 career hit |
1983 |
Caps 3-Isles 6-Patrick Div Semifinals-Isles win series 3-2 |
1983 |
Hennie Kuiper (Neth) wins Paris-Roubaix cycle race |
1983 |
Jordan king Hussein ceases negotiations with PLO |
1983 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
1984 |
Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle |
1984 |
John Long (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 51 games |
1984 |
US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors |
1985 |
At 80 Leo Sites becomes oldest bowler to score a 300 game |
1985 |
Caps 4-Isles 3 (OT)-Patrick Div Semifinals-Caps hold 1-0 lead |
1985 |
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-B mission |
1986 |
"Big Deal" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 70 performances |
1986 |
Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan |
1986 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1988 |
52nd Golf Masters Championship: Sandy Lyle wins, shooting a 281 |
1988 |
8th Golden Raspberry Awards: Leonard Part 6 wins |
1988 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA San Diego Inamori Golf Classic |
1988 |
Herschel Walker performs Fort Worth Ballet |
1988 |
Islanders beat Devils 5-4 (OT) 1st round tied at 2-2 |
1989 |
10th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
1989 |
24th Academy of Country Music Awards: Hank Williams Jr, Alabama |
1989 |
Intel corp announces shipment of 80-486 chip |
1989 |
H J Heinz, Van Camp Seafood & Bumble Bee Seafood say they would not buy tuna caught in nets that also trap dolphins |
1990 |
CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma Japan |
1990 |
Curtly Ambrose takes 8-45 in cricket vs England at Bridgetown |
1991 |
Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138 |
1991 |
LA King Wayne Gretzky scores NHL record 93rd playoff goal |
1991 |
Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd & 42nd St, NYC) |
1991 |
Martin Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:52.51) |
1991 |
A rare tropical storm develops in the Southern Hemisphere near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites. |
1992 |
25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka |
1992 |
Floriade (Flower Show) opens at Hague Neth |
1992 |
NHL strike ends after 10 days |
1993 |
BPAA US Open by Del Ballard Jr |
1993 |
Ottawa Senators win 1st road game (Islanders) after 38 straight loses |
1993 |
Pittsburgh Penguins win their NHL record 17 game winning streak |
1994 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Hiten Theatre, Osaka |
1994 |
58th Golf Masters Championship: Jose M Olazabal wins, shooting a 279 |
1995 |
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 24 perfs |
1995 |
NYC bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more |
1996 |
Fastest wind speed ever recorded (not a tornado) 408 km/h (220 kn; 253 mph; 113 m/s) during tropical cyclone Olivia on Barrow Island, Australia |
1998 |
The Good Friday/Belfast Agreement for Northern Ireland is signed by the British and Irish goverments |
2005 |
69th Golf Masters Championship: Tiger Woods wins, shooting a 276 |
2006 |
Hundreds of thousands protest H.R. 4437 (aka the "Sensenbrenner Bill") in the United States. |
2006 |
40th CMT Music Awards: Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood & Kenny Chesney wins |
2010 |
Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President Lech Kaczyński. |
2011 |
75th Golf Masters Championship: Charl Schwartzel wins, shooting a 274 |
2012 |
United Nations deadline for Syrian troop withdrawal passes as violence continues |
2012 |
Apple Inc claims a value of $600 billion making it the largest company by market capitalization in the world |
2012 |
Rick Santorum suspends his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination making Mitt Romney the overwhelming favourite |
2012 |
Raymond Aubrac, French Resistance Leader, dies at 97 |
2013 |
Japan and Taiwan sign an agreement on fishing rights around the Senkaku Islands |
2014 |
88 civilians are killed by barrel bombs from Syrian war planes in Aleppo, Syria |
2014 |
The Council of Europe suspends Russia's right to vote |
2016 |
Asia Pacific|Fire at Temple in Southern India Kills at Least 80 |
2016 |
Ruthless Joshua claims IBF world heavyweight crown |
2016 |
Pacquiao Defeats Bradley by Decision, and Says Farewell to His Sport |
2017 |
Sergio Garcia holds off Justin Rose to win Masters |
2017 |
ISIS claims responsibility for Palm Sunday church bombings in Egypt |
2017 |
Russell Westbrook Breaks Oscar Robertson's Triple-Double Record vs. Nuggets |
2018 |
Trump promises forceful response to chemical arms attack in Syria |
2018 |
FBI raids home, offices of Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen |
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