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| YEAR | DAY | EVENT |
| 879 | Apr 10 | Louis II, the Stutterer, King of France (877-79), died and Louis III was crowned King of France. |
| 1739 | Apr 10 | Dick Turpin was executed in England for horse stealing. |
| 1809 | Apr 10 | Austria declared war on France and her forces entered Bavaria. |
| 1835 | Apr 10 | Charles Darwin returned to Santiago, Chile. |
| 1845 | Apr 10 | Over 1,000 buildings were damaged by fire in Pittsburgh, Pa. |
| 1849 | Apr 10 | Walter Hunt, a mechanic, patented the safety pin in NYC. He sold rights for $100. Hunt’s other inventions included a new stove, paper collar, ice-breaking boat, fountain pen and nail-making machine. |
| 1863 | Apr 10 | Rebel Gen. Earl Van Dorn attacked at Franklin, Tenn. |
| 1864 | Apr 10 | Archduke Maximilian of Austria was crowned Emperor of Mexico. |
| 1868 | Apr 10 | 1st performance of Johannes Brahms’ “Ein Deutches Requiem.” |
| 1882 | Apr 10 | Matson founded his shipping company with service between San Francisco and Hawaii. |
| 1902 | Apr 10 | South African Boers accepted British terms of surrender. |
| 1909 | Apr 10 | Algernon Charles Swinburne (b.1837), English poet, died. |
| 1912 | Apr 10 | The first wireless transmission was received on an airplane. |
| 1919 | Apr 10 | Emiliano Zapata (b.c1877), a leader of Mexico’s indigenous people during the Mexican Revolution, was assassinated by a government emissary who had come to his southern stronghold in the state of Morelos for peace negotiations. His native language was Nahuatl of the Aztecs. |
| 1923 | Apr 10 | Hitler demanded “hatred and more hatred” in Berlin. |
| 1930 | Apr 10 | The first synthetic rubber was produced. |
| 1938 | Apr 10 | Germany annexed Austria. |
| 1940 | Apr 10 | Vidkun Quisling formed a Norwegian pro-Nazi “national government.” |
| 1941 | Apr 10 | Paul Theroux, author (The Great Railway Bazaar), was born. |
| 1944 | Apr 10 | Soviet forces liberated Odessa from Nazis. |
| 1945 | Apr 10 | US troops landed on Tsugen Shima, Okinawa. |
| 1948 | Apr 10 | Jewish Hagana repelled an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek |
| 1952 | Apr 10 | The MGM movie musical “Singin’ in the Rain,” starring Gene Kelly, was first released. |
| 1956 | Apr 10 | In Alabama singer Nat Cole was attacked on stage at the Birmingham Municipal Auditorium by a small group of white supremacists. Six local men were arrested for the attack. |
| 1960 | Apr 10 | The US Senate passed a landmark Civil Rights Bill. |
| 1968 | Apr 10 | In the 40th Academy Awards “In the Heat of the Night” won as best film. Rod Steiger won as best actor for his role in the film. Katherine Hepburn won as best actress for her role in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.” |
| 1971 | Apr 10 | The American table tennis team arrived in China. |
| 1974 | Apr 10 | Golda Meir announced her resignation as prime minister of Israel. Yitzhak Rabin replaced Golda Meir. |
| 1978 | Apr 10 | Arkady Shevchenko, a high-ranking Soviet citizen employed by the United Nations, sought political asylum in the United States. |
| 1986 | Apr 10 | Benazir Bhutto (33), daughter of former PM Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, returned to Pakistan. |
| 1988 | Apr 10 | The hijackers of a Kuwait Airways jetliner vowed to carry out a “slow, quiet massacre” of their hostages, one day after one captive was killed aboard the plane parked in Larnaca, Cyprus. |
| 1990 | Apr 10 | San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors approved reducing the city’s curfew laws. Minors under 14 will be banned from public places between midnight and 5am. The old law included minors under 18 from 11pm to 6am. |
| 1991 | Apr 10 | The US and Britain imposed a no-fly zone to protect 3 Kurdish provinces in northern Iraq. |
| 1992 | Apr 10 | Comedian Sam Kinison (38) was killed in a car crash outside Needles, Calif. |
| 1995 | Apr 10 | Sen. Bob Dole launched his third bid for the White House in Topeka, Kansas. |
| 1996 | Apr 10 | President Clinton vetoed a bill that would have outlawed a technique used to end pregnancies in their late stages. |
| 1997 | Apr 10 | A federal judge struck down as unconstitutional the Line-Item Veto Act, a law that lets the president strike specific items from bills passed by Congress. The president said he would appeal to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court later set aside the judge’s ruling. The Supreme Court ultimately struck down the veto as unconstitutional in 1998. |
| 1999 | Apr 10 | The Miami Heat humiliated the Chicago Bulls, 82-49, holding the Bulls to the lowest point total since the introduction of the basketball shot clock. |
| 2000 | Apr 10 | Actor Larry Linville, one of the stars of the situation comedy “M*A*S*H,” set during the Korean War, died in New York at age 60. |
| 2001 | Apr 10 | Pres. Bush met with Jordan’s King Abdullah and both agreed that ending violence in the Middle East was the main goal for the region. |
| 2002 | Apr 10 | Sec. of State Colin Powell stopped in Spain to gather EU support in the Middle East conflict. He again called for an immediate end to Israel’s military operations. |
| 2003 | Apr 10 | The US House passed a bill creating a national Amber Alert system and strengthening child pornography laws. |
| 2004 | Apr 10 | Pres. Bush signed into law a bill that let companies reduce the required contributions to their defined-benefit pension plans by more than $80 billion over the next 2 years. |
| 2005 | Apr 10 | Tiger Woods won his fourth Masters with a spectacular finish of birdies and bogeys. |
| 2006 | Apr 10 | Former Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling began testifying in his fraud and conspiracy trial in Houston, declaring himself “absolutely innocent.” |
| 2007 | Apr 10 | Diabetes scientists 15 Type 1 Brazilians did not need insulin shots after therapy with stem cells from their own blood. It was also reported that such stem cells helped repair heart damage due to Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, carried by kissing bugs (barbeiros). |
| 2008 | Apr 10 | Most families in the April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech mass shootings agreed to an $11 million state settlement. |
| 2009 | Apr 10 | A US immigration board rejected suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk’s appeal of an extradition order, paving the way for deportation to Germany to face charges he committed atrocities. |
| 2010 | Apr 10 | Afghan officials said 2 Italian doctors are among nine people detained in an alleged plot to kill Helmand’s provincial governor. On April 18 Afghan authorities released three Italian medical workers who had been detained for a week, clearing them of allegations they were part of a Taliban plot to kill a provincial governor. |
| 2012 | Apr 10 | Rick Santorum suspended his campaign during a press conference in Pennsylvania, his home state. |
| 2013 | Apr 10 | President Barack Obama sent Congress a $3.8 trillion spending blueprint that strives to achieve a “grand bargain” to tame runaway deficits, raising taxes on the wealthy and trimming popular benefit programs including Social Security and Medicare. |
| 2014 | Apr 10 | Kathleen Sebelius (65), US Health and Human Services Secretary, resigned. The next day Pres. Obama nominated Sylvia Mathews Burwell, director of the Office of Budget and Management, to succeed her. |
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