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 101st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 265 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 28, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,545,120 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 ‘hectahenagon’ day.
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 294 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 4,128 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 10 Historical Events
- 1500 –Ludovico Sforza is captured by the Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.
- 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.
- 1944 –Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp.
- 1963 –129 people die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
- 1968 –Shipwreck of the New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine outside Wellington harbour.
- 1970 –Paul McCartney announces that he leaves The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
- 1991 –A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
- 2009 –President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
Who were born on April 10?
- 1583 –Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (d. 1645)
- 1756 –William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1831)
- 1924 –Kenneth Noland, American painter (d. 2010)
- 1933 –Rokusuke Ei, Japanese lyricist and author
- 1958 –Kenneth Edmonds, American music producer
- 1959 –Yvan Loubier, Canadian politician
- 1970 –Enrico Ciccone, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 –Shemekia Copeland, American singer
- 1980 –Charlie Hunnam, British actor
- 1984 –Cara DeLizia, American actress
Who died on April 10?
- 1954 –Auguste Lumière, French film executive (b. 1862)
- 1955 –Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist and theologian (b. 1881)
- 1962 –Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born American director (b. 1886)
- 1965 –Lloyd Casner, American race car driver and owner (b. 1928)
- 1994 –Sam B. Hall, American politician (b. 1924)
- 1997 –Michael Dorris, American author (b. 1945)
- 1998 –Seraphim, Archbishop of Athens (b. 1913)
- 2000 –Larry Linville, American actor (b. 1939)
- 2003 –Little Eva, American singer (b. 1943)
- 2010 –Passengers in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash, including: Anna Walentynowicz, Polish free trade activist (b. 1929)
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