April 10

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.

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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

Events

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 - Edouard 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)
1970 - Paul McCartney announces that The Beatles have broken up.
1970 - Vietnam War: 48 percent of the Americanss 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 bomberss 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. It is the last known tornado to hit in the U.S. to claim more than 40 lives (see Wichita Falls, Texas Tornado).
1988 - The comic strip Fox Trot débuts.
1998 - The Belfast Agreement is signed.

Births

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)
1894 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist, Gandhian and educationist.
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
1932 - Omar Sharif, actor
1934 - David Halberstam, writer
1936 - John Madden, American football coach, 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 (Ghostbusters II, Ally McBeal)
1958 - Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, music producer, musician, film producer
1960 - Brian Setzer, musician ("The Stray Cats", "The Brian Setzer Orchestra")
1973 - Christopher K Lehman, Ladies' Man and Impressario
1979 - Tsuyoshi Domoto, artist
1980 - Charlie Hunnam, actor
1983 - Ryan Merriman, actor
1984 - Mandy Moore, pop singer
1988 - Haley Joel Osment, actor

Deaths

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)
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 - Stuart Sutcliffe, original bass player for The Beatles (b. 1940)
1962 - Michael Curtiz, director (b. 1886)
1965 - Linda Darnell, actress (b. 1923)
1966 - Evelyn Waugh, writer (b. 1903)
1968 - Gustavs Celmins, politican (b. 1899)
1969 - Harley J. Earl, automobile designer, father of the Chevrolet Corvette
1975 - Marjorie Main, actress (b. 1890)
1975 - Josephine Baker, dancer (b. 1906)
1979 - Nino Rota, composer (b. 1911)
1993 - Chris Hani, 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)

Holidays and observances

Holy Saturday (2004)

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