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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1864 –Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is elected emperor of Mexico.
- 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.
- 1887 –On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.
- 1912 –The Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage.
- 1919 –Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
- 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.
- 1957 –The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
- 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.
- 1972 –Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons.
- 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.
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