About April 10
April 10, 2020 is the 101st day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 265 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 308 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 1866 –The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.
- 1904 –British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of The Law.
- 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.
- 1944 –Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp.
- 1959 –Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, weds Michiko.
- 1963 –129 people die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
- 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.
- 1979 –Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
- 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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