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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1816 –The United States Government approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
- 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.
- 1866 –The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.
- 1887 –On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.
- 1919 –Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
- 1944 –Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp.
- 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.
- 1963 –129 people die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1991 –A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
- 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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