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April 10
is the 100th day of the year (101st in
leap years
) in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 265 days remaining until the end of the year.
- 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.
- 1940
-
Katyn massacre
: Mass
execution
of 40,000 Polish officers and intelligentsia is approved and signed by
Joseph Stalin
.
- 1941
?
World War II
: The
Axis Powers
in
Europe
establish the
Independent State of Croatia
from occupied
Yugoslavia
with
Ante Paveli?
'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
(nee 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
debuts.
- 1991
- Italian
ferry
Moby Prince
collides with an
oil
tanker in dense
fog
off
Livorno
,
Tuscany
, killing 140 people.
- 1991
- A rare
tropical storm
develops in the South
Atlantic Ocean
near
Angola
.
- 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
.
- 2009
-
President
of
Fiji
Josefa Iloilo
announces he will suspend the
constitution
and assume all of the governance of the country.
- 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
.
- 2015
- A
bus
and
truck
collide in southern
Morocco
, killing 33 people, including schoolchildren.
- 2016
- The
Kollam temple fire
in
Kerala
, Southern
India
, kills over 100 people.
- 2019
-
Scientists
from the Event Horizon
Telescope
Project announce the first-ever image of a
black hole
, at the centre of the M87
Galaxy
.
- 2019
-
Fossil
fragments found in the Callao Cave on the
Philippines
' island of
Luzon
reveal the existence of the
Homo luzonensis
species of
human
.
- 401
-
Theodosius II
, Roman Emperor (d.
450
)
- 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
)
- 1651
-
Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus
, German
mathematician
,
physicist
and
historian
(d.
1708
)
- 1707
-
Michel Corrette
, French organist, composer, writer (d.
1795
)
- 1713
-
John Whitehurst
, English
clockmaker
and
scientist
(d.
1788
)
- 1735
-
Button Gwinnett
, signer of the
United States
Declaration of Independence
(d.
1777
)
- 1755
?
Samuel Hahnemann
, German physician, originator of
homeopathy
(d.
1843
)
- 1762
-
Giovanni Aldini
, Italian
physicist
(d.
1834
)
- 1766
-
John Leslie
, Scottish
physicist
(d.
1832
)
- 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
)
- 1796
-
James Bowie
, American pioneer and soldier (d.
1836
)
- 1801
-
Paul Devaux
, Belgian politician (d.
1880
)
- 1817
-
Konstantin Aksakov
, Russian writer (d.
1860
)
- 1827
-
Lew Wallace
, American lawyer, general and politician (d.
1905
)
- 1829
?
William Booth
, founder of the
Salvation Army
(d.
1912
)
- 1847
?
Joseph Pulitzer
, Hungarian-American journalist and publisher (d.
1911
)
- 1864
-
Eugen d'Albert
, Scottish-born German composer (d.
1932
)
- 1865
-
Jack Miner
, Canadian
conservationist
(d.
1944
)
- 1867
?
George William Russell
, Irish nationalist (d.
1935
)
- 1868
?
George Arliss
, British actor (d.
1946
)
- 1870
(
O.S.
) -
Vladimir Lenin
,
Premier of the Soviet Union
(d.
1924
)
- 1873
?
Kyosti Kallio
,
President
of
Finland
(d.
1940
)
- 1877
-
Alfred Kubin
, American expressionist illustrator and writer (d.
1959
)
- 1877
-
Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
(d.
1947
)
- 1879
-
Bernhard Gregory
, Baltic German
chess
player (d.
1939
)
- 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
)
- 1892
-
Victor de Sabata
, Italian conductor and composer (d.
1967
)
- 1894
?
Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla
, Indian industrialist, Gandhian, and educator (d.
1983
)
- 1897
-
Prafulla Chandra Sen
, Indian
politician
,
Chief Minister
of
West Bengal
(d.
1990
)
- 1899
?
Vladimir Nabokov
, Russian writer (d.
1977
)
- 1901
-
Alexander Ireland
, Scottish
boxer
(d.
1966
)
- 1903
-
Clare Turlay Newberry
, American illustrator and author (d.
1970
)
- 1906
-
Steve Anderson
, American hurdler (d.
1988
)
- 1910
?
Eddy Duchin
, musician (d.
1951
)
- 1911
-
Maurice Schumann
, French
journalist
and
politician
(d.
1998
)
- 1912
-
Boris Kidric
, 1st
Prime Minister
of
Slovenia
(d.
1953
)
- 1913
?
Stefan Heym
, German writer (d.
2001
)
- 1915
?
Harry Morgan
, American actor (d.
2011
)
- 1915
-
Leo Vroman
, Dutch-American
hematologist
,
poet
and illustrator (d.
2014
)
- 1917
?
Robert Burns Woodward
, American chemist (d.
1979
)
- 1919
-
John Houbolt
, American aerospace engineer (d.
2014
)
- 1921
?
Chuck Connors
, American actor and baseball player (d.
1992
)
- 1921
-
Jake Warren
, Canadian
soldier
and
diplomat
(d.
2008
)
- 1921
?
Sheb Wooley
, American actor and singer (d.
2003
)
- 1924
?
Kenneth Noland
, American painter (d.
2010
)
- 1926
?
Junior Samples
, American country musician (d.
1983
)
- 1926
-
Jacques Casterede
, French
composer
and
pianist
(d.
2014
)
- 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
- 1930
-
Spede Pasanen
, Finnish comedian (d.
2001
)
- 1930
-
Ray Blanton
,
Governor
of
Tennessee
(d.
1996
)
- 1931
?
Luis Cabral
, 1st
President
of
Guinea-Bissau
(d.
2009
)
- 1931
-
Rene Follet
, Belgian comic artist
- 1932
?
Omar Sharif
, Egyptian actor (d.
2015
)
- 1932
-
Mae Faggs
, American athlete (d.
2000
)
- 1934
?
David Halberstam
, American writer (d.
2007
)
- 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
)
- 1938
-
Frans van der Lugt
, Dutch
priest
(d.
2014
)
- 1939
-
Penny Vincenzi
, English writer (d.
2018
)
- 1939
-
Rocky Valance
, Welsh singer
- 1940
-
Gloria Hunniford
, Northern Irish
television
and
radio
presenter
- 1941
?
Paul Theroux
, American writer
- 1943
?
Andrzej Bade?ski
, Polish athlete
- 1946
?
David Angell
, American television producer (d.
2001
)
- 1946
-
Bob Watson
, American
baseball
player and executive
- 1947
?
Bunny Wailer
, Jamaican musician
- 1950
?
Ken Griffey, Sr.
, American
Major League Baseball
player
- 1950
?
Eddie Hazel
, American guitarist (
P-Funk
and
The Temptations
) (d.
1992
)
- 1952
-
Narayan Rane
, Indian
politician
, 16th
Chief Minister
of
Maharashtra
- 1952
?
Steven Seagal
, American actor
- 1954
?
Peter MacNicol
, American actor
- 1954
-
Paul Bearer
, American
professional wrestler
and manager (d.
2013
)
- 1955
?
Lesley Garrett
, British soprano
- 1957
-
James D. Hudnall
, American comic book writer (d.
2019
)
- 1958
?
Yefim Bronfman
, Russian pianist
- 1958
?
Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds
, music producer, musician, and movie producer
- 1959
-
Stanislaw Tillich
, German politician, former
Prime Minister
of
Saxony
- 1960
?
Brian Setzer
, musician
- 1960
?
Katrina Leskanich
, American singer (
Katrina and the Waves
)
- 1960
?
Afrika Bambaataa
, American musician and activist
- 1961
-
Nicky Campbell
, Scottish
television
and
radio
presenter
- 1962
?
Steve Tasker
, American football player
- 1963
?
Doris Leuthard
, Swiss politician
- 1963
?
Mark Oliver Everett
, American musician
- 1965
?
Tim Alexander
, American musician
- 1966
-
Steve Claridge
, English
footballer
, manager and sportscaster
- 1968
?
Orlando Jones
, American actor, comedian
- 1970
?
Kenny Lattimore
, American singer
- 1970
-
Q-Tip
, American rapper and producer
- 1972
-
Ed Byrne
, Irish comedian
- 1973
?
Roberto Carlos
, Brazilian
footballer
- 1973
-
Aidan Moffat
, British musician
- 1974
-
Eric Greitens
, American politician, 56th
Governor
of
Missouri
- 1979
?
Rachel Corrie
, American activist, member of the International Solidarity Movement (d.
2003
)
- 1979
?
Tsuyoshi Domoto
, Japanese artist
- 1979
?
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
, English singer
- 1979
?
Shemekia Copeland
, American singer
- 1980
?
Charlie Hunnam
, actor
- 1981
?
Liz McClarnon
, English singer (
Atomic Kitten
)
- 1981
?
Gretchen Bleiler
, American snowboarder
- 1981
?
Alexei Semenov
, Russian
ice hockey
player
- 1982
?
Chyler Leigh
, American actress, singer and model
- 1983
?
Ryan Merriman
, American actor
- 1983
?
Hannes Sigurðsson
, Icelandic footballer
- 1984
?
Gonzalo Javier Rodriguez
, Argentine footballer
- 1984
?
Mandy Moore
, American singer and actress
- 1985
?
Willo Flood
, Irish footballer
- 1986
?
Vincent Kompany
, Belgian footballer
- 1986
?
Tore Reginiussen
, Norwegian footballer
- 1987
?
Hayley Westenra
, New Zealand singer
- 1987
?
Shay Mitchell
, Canadian actress
- 1988
?
Haley Joel Osment
, American actor
- 1989
?
Jenny Alm
, Swedish
handball
player
- 1989
?
Thomas Heurtel
, French
basketball
player
- 1990
?
Alex Pettyfer
, English actor
- 1991
?
Amanda Michalka
, American actress and singer
- 1991
?
Royce White
, American
basketball
player
- 1992
?
Sadio Mane
, Senegalese
footballer
- 1992
?
Daisy Ridley
, English
actress
- 1994
?
Nerlens Noel
, American
basketball
player
- 1996
?
Emily Rose Everhard
, American actress
- 1996
?
Loic Nottet
, Belgian singer
- 2001
?
Angelina Mango
, Italian singer-songwriter
- 2007
?
Princess Ariane of the Netherlands
- 879
?
Louis the Stammerer
, king of the West Franks (b.
846
)
- 948
-
Hugh of Italy
- 1216
-
Eric X of Sweden
(b.
1180
)
- 1533
?
Frederick I of Denmark
(b.
1471
)
- 1585
?
Pope Gregory XIII
(b.
1502
)
- 1599
?
Gabrielle d'Estree
, mistress of King
Henry IV of France
(b.
1571
)
- 1646
-
Santino Solari
, Swiss
architect
and
sculptor
(b.
1576
)
- 1756
-
Giacomo Antonio Perti
, Italian composer (b.
1661
)
- 1786
-
John Byron
, English
admiral
and
politician
(b.
1723
)
- 1813
?
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
, mathematician (b.
1736
)
- 1821
-
Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople
(b.
1746
)
- 1823
-
Karl Leonhard Reinhold
, Austrian
philosopher
(b.
1757
)
- 1862
?
W.H.L. Wallace
,
Union
brigadier general (b.
1821
)
- 1871
-
Lucio Norberto Mansilla
, Argentine
general
and
politician
(b.
1789
)
- 1882
?
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, British poet, painter (b.
1828
)
- 1904
-
Isabella II of Spain
(b.
1830
)
- 1909
?
Algernon Charles Swinburne
, English poet (b.
1909
)
- 1919
?
Emiliano Zapata
, Mexican revolutionary (b.
1879
)
- 1920
-
Moritz Cantor
, German
mathematician
(b.
1829
)
- 1931
?
Khalil Gibran
, Lebanese poet and painter (b.
1883
)
- 1938
-
Joe "King" Oliver
, American
jazz
cornet player and
bandleader
(b.
1885
)
- 1939
?
Alfredo Panzini
, Italian writer (b.
1863
)
- 1945
?
Charles Nordhoff
, writer (b.
1887
)
- 1954
?
Auguste Lumiere
, French movie pioneer (b.
1862
)
- 1955
-
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
, French
priest
and
philosopher
(b.
1881
)
- 1958
-
Chuck Willis
, American
singer-songwriter
(b.
1928
)
- 1960
-
Andre Berthomieu
, French
director
and
screenwriter
(b.
1903
)
- 1962
?
Michael Curtiz
, director (b.
1886
)
- 1962
?
Stuart Sutcliffe
, British musician (
The Beatles
) (b.
1940
)
- 1965
?
Linda Darnell
, actress (b.
1923
)
- 1966
?
Evelyn Waugh
, English writer (b.
1903
)
- 1968
?
Gustavs Celmins
, Latvian 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
)
- 1992
-
Peter D. Mitchell
, British biochemist (b.
1920
)
- 1993
?
Chris Hani
, South African 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 writer (b.
1945
)
- 1998
-
Archbishop Seraphim of Athens
(b.
1913
)
- 1999
?
Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat
, biochemist (b.
1910
)
- 2000
?
Peter Jones
, comedian and scriptwriter (b.
1920
)
- 2000
?
Larry Linville
, American actor (b.
1939
)
- 2012
-
Raymond Aubrac
, French resistance activist (b.
1914
)
- 2013
-
Robert Edwards
, British
Nobel Prize
-winning
physiologist
and
IVF
pioneer (b.
1925
)
- 2014
-
Dominique Baudis
, French
journalist
and
politician
(b.
1947
)
- 2014
-
Jim Flaherty
, Canadian politician (b.
1949
)
- 2014
-
Sue Townsend
, English writer (b.
1946
)
- 2014
-
Joe Dini
, American politician (b.
1929
)
- 2014
-
Justin Marie Bomboko
, Congolese politician (b.
1928
)
- 2014
-
Anatoly Sukhorukov
, Russian
physicist
(b.
1935
)
- 2015
-
Richie Benaud
, Australian
cricketer
and commentator (b.
1930
)
- 2015
-
Peter Walsh
, Australian politician (b.
1935
)
- 2015
-
Ray Graves
, American football player and coach (b.
1918
)
- 2015
-
Jin Youzhi
, Chinese royal (b.
1918
)
- 2015
-
Judith Malina
, German-American actress (b.
1926
)
- 2015
-
Jim Mutscheller
, American football player (b.
1930
)
- 2016
-
Howard Marks
, British drug smuggler and author (b.
1945
)
- 2016
-
Louis Gladstone
, American politician (b.
1927
)
- 2017
-
Arnold Clark
, Scottish businessman (b.
1927
)
- 2017
-
J. Geils
, American guitarist (b.
1946
)
- 2017
-
Linda Hopkins
, American actress and singer (b.
1924
)
- 2017
-
Larry Sharpe
, American
professional wrestler
(b.
1951
)
- 2017
-
Bab Christensen
, Norwegian actress (b.
1928
)
- 2017
-
Dennis F. Kinlaw
, American academic (b.
1922
)
- 2017
-
Kirill Kovaldzhi
, Russian author, poet and critic (b.
1929
)
- 2018
-
F'Murr
, French comic artist (b.
1946
)
- 2018
-
John Lambie
, Scottish
footballer
(b.
1941
)
- 2018
-
Li Yaowen
, Chinese general and politician (b.
1918
)
- 2019
-
Werner Bardenhewer
, German priest and humanitarian (b.
1929
)
- 2019
-
Earl Thomas Conley
, American country singer-songwriter (b.
1941
)
- 2019
-
Irwin L. Jacobs
, American investor and businessman (b.
1941
)
- 2019
-
Estrella Zeledon Lizano
, First Lady of
Costa Rica
(b.
1929
)