About April 10
April 10, 2024 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.
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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 294 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 10
- 837 –Halley’s Comet and Earth experienced their closest approach to one another when their separating distance equalled 0.0342 AU (3.2 million miles).
- 879 –Louis III becomes King of the Western Franks.
- 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.
- 1864 –Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is elected emperor of Mexico.
- 1865 –American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1957 –The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
- 1959 –Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, weds Michiko.
- 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.
- 1972 –Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
- 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.
- 2010 –Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President Lech Kaczyński.
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