About April 10
April 10, 2022 is the 100th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 265 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 287 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 10
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1865 –American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
- 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.
- 1874 –The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.
- 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.
- 1925 –The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
- 1941 –World War II: The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power.
- 1944 –Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp.
- 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.
- 1991 –Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
- 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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