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
- 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).
- 1500 –Ludovico Sforza is captured by the Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.
- 1741 –War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz.
- 1815 –The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth’s climate for the next two years.
- 1856 –The Theta Chi fraternity is founded at Norwich University.
- 1858 –The original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonne bell for the Palace of Westminster is cast in Stockton-on-Tees by Warner’s of Cripplegate. This however cracked during testing and is recast into the 13.76 tonne bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry and is still in use to date.
- 1864 –Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is elected emperor of Mexico.
- 1874 –The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.
- 1904 –British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of The Law.
- 1944 –Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp.
- 1957 –The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
- 1959 –Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, weds Michiko.
- 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.
- 1971 –Ping Pong Diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People’s Republic of China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a weeklong visit.
- 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 –Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
- 1991 –Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
- 2010 –Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President Lech Kaczyński.
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