About April 10

April 10, 2025 is the 100th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 265 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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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 313 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On April 10

  • 428 –
    Nestorius becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
  • 837 –
    Halley’s Comet and Earth experienced their closest approach to one another when their separating distance equalled 0.0342 AU (3.2 million miles).
  • 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.
  • 1741 –
    War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz.
  • 1816 –
    The United States Government approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
  • 1821 –
    Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.
  • 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.
  • 1864 –
    Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is elected emperor of Mexico.
  • 1868 –
    At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two die from the British/Indian troops.
  • 1887 –
    On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.
  • 1912 –
    The Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage.
  • 1916 –
    The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
  • 1953 –
    Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.
  • 1957 –
    The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
  • 1968 –
    Shipwreck of the New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine outside Wellington harbour.
  • 1970 –
    Paul McCartney announces that he leaves The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
  • 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.
  • 2010 –
    Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President Lech Kaczyński.

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