About April 10
April 10, 2024 is the 101st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 265 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 294 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 10
- 428 –Nestorius becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
- 879 –Louis III becomes King of the Western Franks.
- 1407 –the lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing. He is awarded with the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma.
- 1500 –Ludovico Sforza is captured by the Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.
- 1710 –The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, enters into force in Great Britain.
- 1741 –War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz.
- 1826 –The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Missolonghi start leaving the town after a year’s siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
- 1856 –The Theta Chi fraternity is founded at Norwich University.
- 1864 –Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is elected emperor of Mexico.
- 1865 –American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
- 1874 –The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.
- 1916 –The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
- 1919 –Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
- 1957 –The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
- 1970 –Paul McCartney announces that he leaves The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
- 1972 –Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons.
- 1973 –A British Vanguard turboprop crashes during a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104.
- 1979 –Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
- 1992 –The Maraghar Massacre, killing of ethnic Armenian civil population of the village Maraghar by Azerbaijani troops during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
- 2009 –President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
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