About April 10
April 10, 2021 is the 100th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 265 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 297 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.
- 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.
- 1710 –The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, enters into force in Great Britain.
- 1741 –War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1865 –American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
- 1874 –The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.
- 1916 –The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
- 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.
- 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 –20 days after he is kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas.
- 1973 –A British Vanguard turboprop crashes during a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104.
- 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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