April 10 - Definition and Overview

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

"April Tenth" is also a song by the band Garbage. It was released on the B-side of the "Shut Your Mouth" single from the beautifulgarbage album. The song is about the death of a fan.

Events

up to 19th century

• 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.

20th century

1900s-1960s

• 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)

1970s-1990s

• 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

up to 19th century

• 1512 - Prince James Stewart, later King 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 who forced the opening of Japan to the West (d. 1858)
• 1829 - William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army (d. 1912)
• 1847 - Joseph Pulitzer, journalist and publisher (d. 1911)
• 1868 - George Arliss, actor (d. 1946)
• 1870 (O.S.) - Vladimir Lenin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1924)
• 1880 - Montague Summers, English writer on the theatre and the occult (d. 1948)
• 1894 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist, Gandhian and educationist

20th century

1910s-1950s

• 1910 - Eddy Duchin, musician (d. 1951)
• 1913 - Stefan Heym, author
• 1915 - Harry Morgan, actor
• 1917 - Robert Burns Woodward chemist (d. 1979-07-08)
• 1918 - Jørn Utzon, architect
• 1921 - Chuck Connors, actor, baseball player (d. 1992)
• 1929 - Max von Sydow, actor
• 1930 - Claude Bolling, French jazz pianist and flutist
• 1932 - Omar Sharif, actor
• 1934 - David Halberstam, writer
• 1936 - John Madden, American football coach, broadcaster
• 1938 - Don Meredith, American football quarterback, Monday Night Football broadcaster
• 1941 - Paul Theroux, author
• 1943 - Andrzej Badeński, Polish athlete
• 1950 - Ken Griffey, Sr., Major League Baseball player
• 1950 - Eddie Hazel, guitarist (P-Funk, 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, film producer

1960s-1980s

• 1960 - Brian Setzer, musician
• 1960 - Katrina Leskanich, singer, DJ, lead vocalist of Katrina and the Waves, Eurovision Song Contest winner
• 1962 - Steve Tasker, American football player
• 1979 - Rachel Corrie, American activist, member of the International Solidarity Movement (d. 2003)
• 1979 - Tsuyoshi Domoto, artist
• 1979 - Sophie Ellis-Bextor, singer
• 1980 - Charlie Hunnam, actor
• 1983 - Ryan Merriman, actor
• 1984 - Mandy Moore, pop singer
• 1988 - Haley Joel Osment, actor

Deaths

up to 19th century

• 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)

20th century

• 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
• 1940 - Mrs. Patrick Campbell, nee Beatrice Stella Tanner, British actress, (b. 1865)
• 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)
• 1993 - Chris Hani, activist
• 1994 - Sam B. Hall, American politician (b. 1924)
• 1999 - Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, biochemist (b. 1910)

21st century

• 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)
• 2003 - Little Eva, singer (b. 1943)

Holidays and observances

• Holy Saturday (2004)

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