About April 10
April 10, 2023 is the 100th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 265 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 306 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 10
- 1500 –Ludovico Sforza is captured by the Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.
- 1606 –The Charter of the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1904 –British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of The Law.
- 1919 –Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
- 1953 –Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.
- 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.
- 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 –20 days after he is kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas.
- 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.
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