Historical Events on April 10

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• 837 Comet 1P/837 F1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0334 AUs of Earth
• 847 St Leo IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 879 Louis III becomes King of West Francia

• 1407 Lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing and is awarded the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma

• 1516 Venice compels Jews to live in a specific area, establishing the first Jewish ghetto
• 1552 Henri II of France occupies Metz
• 1589 Spanish troops conquer Geertruidenberg
• 1607 The British colonial expedition that would found Jamestown departs Puerto Rico for the American mainland

• 1656 Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo, Ceylon
• 1710 The first law regulating copyright is issued in Great Britain
• 1741 War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz
• 1790 US Patent system forms
• 1802 Great Trigonometrical Survey begun to survey entire Indian subcontinent, led by William Lambton and the East India Company (completed 1871)
• 1815 Austria declares war on Kingdom of Naples

• 1816 2nd Bank of US chartered

• 1821 Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Turks from the main gate of the Patriarchate, his body thrown into the Bosphorus
• 1825 1st hotel in Hawaii opens
• 1825 Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Leon
• 1826 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Messolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.

• 1841 New York Tribune begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley
• 1845 More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• 1856 The Theta Chi Fraternity is founded at Norwich University, Vermont
• 1858 "Big Ben", a 13.76 tonne bell, is recast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry
• 1861 Massachusetts Institute of Technology is established by William Barton Rogers as a private land grant university in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• 1863 Confederate General Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tennessee

• 1866 American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms
• 1868 British defeat King of Abyssinia at Magdala

• 1869 Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9
• 1869 José Martí founds the Cuban Revolutionary Party.
• 1871 William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park accepted
• 1872 1st Arbor Day celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22
• 1872 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans
• 1877 Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia, SC
• 1878 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co starts service
• 1882 Captain William Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii)
• 1884 US Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo
• 1887 Soccer team Be Quick forms in Hairs Groningen

• 1896 American athlete Thomas Burke claims the sprint double at the Athens Olympics winning the 100m final in 12.0s; his 2nd victory of the Games after success in the 400m
• 1896 High jumper Ellery Clark leads an American sweep of the placings with a leap of 1.81m at the Athens Olympics; his 2nd victory of the Games after taking out the long jump

• 1898 First Navy Law is passed by the German Reichstag

• 1913 During the Montenegrin siege of Scutari, the Montenegrin coastline is blockaded

• 1915 Castbergian Child Laws adopted in Norway - one of the first laws in the world to protect the welfare of extra-martial children [1]
• 1916 The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is founded in New York City
• 1917 Munition factory explosion at Eddystone, Pennsylvania, kills 133 workers
• 1919 Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos

• 1924 Tubular steel golf club shafts approved for championship play

• 1925 Tsaritsyn renamed Stalingrad (now Volgograd)

• 1930 Thiokol synthetic rubber 1st produced in Yardley, New Jersey

• 1934 Stanley Cup Final, Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL: Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 1-0 in double OT for a 3-1 series win; Black Hawks' first Stanley Cup
• 1935 Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London
• 1936 200" mirror blank arrives from Corning Glass Works of New York at Caltech's optical shop in Pasadena, California for use in Palomar Observatory's Hale Telescope; the work takes 11-1/2 years [1]
• 1938 Austria becomes a state of Germany
• 1938 NY makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license

• 1939 Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania
• 1939 Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn's Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews

• 1941 German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica

• 1942 Cigarettes & candy rationed in Holland
• 1943 12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape Nazis
• 1943 General Montgomery occupies Sfax, Tunisia
• 1944 "Patrolling the Ether" is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously
• 1944 Soviet forces liberate Odessa from the Axis powers
• 1945 Canadian troops conquer Deventer
• 1945 General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland"
• 1945 German troops attack Ijsselbrug
• 1945 NFL's Boston Yanks & Brooklyn Tigers merge
• 1945 US troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa
• 1945 William Schuman & Antony Tudor's ballet premieres in NYC
• 1946 1st election for Japanese Parliament

• 1947 King Frederik IX of Denmark crowned
• 1948 Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek
• 1953 "House of Wax" 1st color 3-D movie, premieres in New York

• 1954 KRGV TV channel 5 in Weslaco, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1955 Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely (last woman to be executed in the UK)
• 1956 Philips broadcasts 1st Dutch color TV programs

• 1957 John Osborne's "Entertainer" premieres in London
• 1957 Jordanian government of Naboelsi resigns
• 1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
• 1958 Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco
• 1959 Chicago White Sox second baseman Nellie Fox gets a MLB Opening Day record tying 5 hits in 7 at-bats in a 14-inning, 9–7 win in Detroit
• 1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill

• 1961 Washington Senators play first game in franchise history with President John F. Kennedy in attendance; lose a 4-3 decision to the Chicago White Sox
• 1962 52,564 fans attend first MLB game at LA's Dodger Stadium at Chavez Ravine, a 6-3 loss to the Cincinnati Reds
• 1962 Houston Colt .45s make their MLB debut with an 11-2 win over the Chicago Cubs at Colt Stadium; outfielder Román Mejías hits a pair of 3-run homers
• 1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1963 USS Thresher, a nuclear powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Boston killing 129 men, including 17 civilians
• 1964 Demolition begins in Upper Manhattan, New York City on Polo Grounds sports stadium (home to MLB Giants, 1891-1957, Mets, 1962-63, and NFL Jets, 1960-63) to clear way for housing project
• 1964 Iranian motor launch catches fire & sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)

• 1968 Ferry Wahine sinks in Wellington harbour, New Zealand on route from Lyttelton (51 killed)
• 1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 1971 Philadelphia Phillies open their new home, Veterans Stadium, with a 4-1 win over the Montreal Expos; 55,352, largest ever crowd to watch a MLB game in Pennsylvania
• 1971 The Republican commemorations is held in Belfast of the Easter Rising (in 1916 in Dublin), revealing conflicts between the two wings of the Irish Republican Army
• 1971 US table tennis team arrives in People's Republic of China
• 1972 20 days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas

• 1972 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
• 1972 The US, USSR and 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons at the Biological Weapons Convention
• 1972 Two British soldiers are killed in a bomb attack in Derry
• 1973 BEA flight to Basel Switzerland, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143
• 1973 Kansas City Royals open their new park, Royals Stadium with 12-1 rout of the Texas Rangers; attendance 39,476
• 1973 Pakistan suspends constitution
• 1974 American Boccaccio Association forms

• 1975 Rangers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
• 1976 Brewers' Don Money's grand slammer disallowed-Yanks win 9-7
• 1976 Cleveland Cavaliers win their 1st NBA Central Division title
• 1977 Cleveland Indians set club record for longest, 9 inn game (3:17)
• 1978 Formation of Major Indoor Soccer League announced
• 1979 J. R. Richard of the Houston Astros pitches a complete game but sets a MLB record by throwing 6 wild pitches in 2-1 win over the LA Dodgers at the Astrodome
• 1979 Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
• 1979 Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian
• 1981 Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded
• 1981 France performs nuclear test

• 1982 LA Kings losing 5-0 to Edmonton in 3rd period, win in OT 6-5

• 1983 Jordan king Hussein ceases negotiations with PLO
• 1984 Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
• 1984 US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors
• 1985 At 80 Leo Sites becomes oldest bowler to score a 300 game
• 1985 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 51-B mission

• 1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1988 Herschel Walker performs Fort Worth Ballet
• 1988 Islanders beat Devils 5-4 (OT) 1st round tied at 2-2

• 1990 CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma, Japan

• 1991 Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138

• 1991 Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd & 42nd St, NYC)
• 1991 Martin Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:52.51)
• 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is awarded to John Updike for novel 'Rabbit At Rest'
• 1991 Rare tropical storm develops in the Southern Hemisphere near Angola; first to be documented by satellites
• 1992 25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka
• 1992 Floriade (Flower Show) opens at The Hague, Netherlands
• 1992 NHL strike ends after 10 days
• 1993 BPAA US Open by Del Ballard Jr
• 1993 Ottawa Senators win 1st road game (Islanders) after 38 straight loses
• 1993 Pittsburgh Penguins win their NHL record 17 game winning streak
• 1995 NYC bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more
• 1996 Fastest wind speed ever recorded (not a tornado) 408 km/h (220 kn; 253 mph; 113 m/s) during tropical cyclone Olivia on Barrow Island, Australia
• 1998 The Good Friday Agreement [Belfast Agreement] for Northern Ireland is signed by the British and Irish governments
• 2005 At 16 years, 271 days James Vaughan scores for Everton in a 4-0 win against Crystal Palace at Goodison Park; becomes youngest goalscorer in EPL history
• 2006 Hundreds of thousands protest H.R. 4437 (aka the "Sensenbrenner Bill") in the United States.
• 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President Lech Kaczyński
• 2012 Apple Inc claims a value of $600 billion making it the largest company by market capitalization in the world

• 2012 United Nations deadline for Syrian troop withdrawal passes as violence continues
• 2013 Japan and Taiwan sign an agreement on fishing rights around the Senkaku Islands

• 2014 88 civilians are killed by barrel bombs from Syrian war planes in Aleppo, Syria
• 2014 The Council of Europe suspends Russia's right to vote
• 2016 Explosions and a fire caused by fireworks at Puttingal Temple in Kerala, India, kills more than 100 and injures nearly 400

• 2017 "British Vogue" magazine announces Edward Enninful as new editor; first male and Black person to hold position

• 2017 Alabama Governor Robert Bentley resigns over relationship with an aide and possible misuse of state funds to cover it up

• 2019 China announces move to cull more than 1 million pigs in effort to eliminate African swine fever
• 2019 First home delivery service by drone begins in Canberra, Australia by Wing, part of Google's Alphabet company

• 2019 Four tiny sweat bees removed alive from a woman's eye in world's first operation of its kind at Fooyin University Hospital, Taiwan
• 2019 New species of human announced named Homo luzonensis, 3ft tall, remains dated 50-60,000 years old found in cave on island of Luzon, Philippines
• 2019 New York declares a public health emergency and compulsory vaccinations after a measles outbreak in Brooklyn with 285 cases

• 2023 Rare California poppy superbloom of organise poppies begins in Southern California around Lake Elinsore [1]

• 2024 Avi Wigderson announced as the winner of the 2023 Turing Prize for his work in clarifying the role of randomness in algorithms [1]

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