What are the important events that happened on April 10? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 10: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 10 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 28, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,070,720 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectagon’ day.
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Aries is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,493 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 10 Historical Events
- 1741 –War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1887 –On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.
- 1925 –The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
- 1944 –Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp.
- 1953 –Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.
- 1973 –A British Vanguard turboprop crashes during a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104.
- 1991 –Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
Who were born on April 10?
- 1827 –Lew Wallace, American Civil War figure and novelist (d. 1905)
- 1918 –Lee Bergere, American actor (d. 2007)
- 1946 –Adolf Winkelmann, German film director
- 1946 –Bob Watson, American baseball player and executive
- 1947 –Bunny Wailer, Jamaican musician
- 1949 –Daniel Mangeas, French sports commentator
- 1969 –Billy Jayne, American actor
- 1975 –Chris Carrabba, American singer
- 1979 –Peter Kopteff, Finnish footballer
- 1984 –Mandy Moore, American singer/actor
Who died on April 10?
- 879 –King Louis the Stammerer of the West Franks (b. 846)
- 1533 –King Frederick I of Denmark (b. 1471)
- 1704 –William Egon of Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1629)
- 1756 –Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (d. 1661)
- 1882 –Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (b. 1828)
- 1919 –Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary figure (b. 1879)
- 1962 –Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born American director (b. 1886)
- 1966 –Evelyn Waugh, English writer (b. 1903)
- 1991 –Natalie Schafer, American actress (b. 1900)
- 2011 –Homer Smith, American football coach (b. 1931)
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