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This day in history: 10 April

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Key facts

400 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 10 April.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2023: A mass shooting occurs at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, that leaves five victims dead and eight wounded.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: April 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Blessed Anthony Neyrot

Christian feast day: Fulbert of Chartres

Christian feast day: James, Azadanus and Abdicius

Christian feast day: Magdalene of Canossa

Christian feast day: Mikael Agricola (Lutheran)

Christian feast day: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Episcopal Church)

Christian feast day: William Law (Anglicanism)

Christian feast day: William of Ockham (Anglicanism)

Day of the Builder (Azerbaijan)

Feast of the Third Day of the Writing of the Book of the Law (Thelema)

Siblings Day (International observance)

Events

2023A mass shooting occurs at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, that leaves five victims dead and eight wounded.

2016An earthquake of 6.6 magnitude strikes 39 km west-southwest of Ashkasham, impacting India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Srinagar and Pakistan.

2016The Paravur temple accident, in which a devastating fire caused by the explosion of firecrackers stored for Vishu kills more than one hundred people out of the thousands gathered for the seventh day of Bhadrakali worship.

2010Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and dozens of other senior officials and dignitaries.

2009President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces the abrogation of the constitution and assumes all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.

1998The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Northern Ireland.

1991A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola, the first to be documented by satellites.

1991Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy, killing 140.

1988The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan.

1981Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands is elected to Westminster as the MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He died twenty-six days later.

1979Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas, killing 42 people.

1973Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashes in a snowstorm on approach to Basel, Switzerland, killing 108 people.

1972Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are discovered by construction workers in Shandong.

1972Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.

1970Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.

1968The TEV Wahine, a New Zealand ferry, sinks in Wellington harbour due to a fierce storm – the strongest winds ever in Wellington. Out of the 734 people on board, fifty-three died.

1963One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.

1944Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp.

1941World War II: The Axis powers establish the Independent State of Croatia.

1925The Russian city of Tsaritsyn is renamed Stalingrad to honor the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Soviet Communist Party General Secretary, who had guided the defense of Tsaritsyn during the Russian Civil War in 1920.

1919Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.

1919The Third Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents is held by the Makhnovshchina at Huliaipole.

1912RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, UK, on her maiden and only voyage.

1900British suffer a sharp defeat by the Boers south of Brandfort. Six hundred British troops are killed and wounded and 800 taken prisoner.

1896Summer Olympics: The Olympic marathon is run ending with the victory of Greek athlete Spyridon Louis.

1887On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.

1872The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.

1868At 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 British/Indian troops die.

1866The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.

1865American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.

1864Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.

1858After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonnes (32,000 lb) bell for the Palace of Westminster, had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonnes (30,300 lb) bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.

1826The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town of Missolonghi begin leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.

1821Greek War of Independence: the island of Psara joins the Greek struggle for independence.

1821Patriarch 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.

1816The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.

1815The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth's climate for the next two years.

1814Allied forces under the Duke of Wellington attack Toulouse held by Marshall Soult, driving out the French after fierce fighting.

1809Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria.

1796War of the First Coalition: A surprise Austrian attack at the Battle of Voltri marks the beginning of the Italian Campaign, the decisive campaign under Napoleon Bonaparte that will end the war a year later.

Born on this day

2004Ismaël Gharbi, French-Spanish footballer

2004Savinho, Brazilian footballer

2000Fidias Panayiotou, Cypriot internet celebrity and politician

1997Claire Wineland, American activist and author (died 2018)

1996Andreas Christensen, Danish footballer

1994Siobhan Hunter, Scottish footballer

1992Chaz Mostert, Australian racing driver

1992Daisy Ridley, English actress

1992Jack Buchanan, Australian rugby league player

1990Alex Pettyfer, English actor

1990Andile Jali, South African footballer

1990Ben Amos, English footballer

1989Charlie Culberson, American baseball player

1988Chris Heston, American baseball pitcher

1988Haley Joel Osment, American actor

1988Jan-Phillip Tadsen, German politician

1988Kareem Jackson, American football player

1987Adam Friedland, American comedian

1987Ahmed Adel Abdel Moneam, Egyptian footballer

1987Hayley Westenra, New Zealand soprano

1986Corey Kluber, American baseball pitcher

1986Fernando Gago, Argentine footballer and manager

1986Olivia Borlée, Belgian sprinter

1986Tore Reginiussen, Norwegian footballer

1986Vincent Kompany, Belgian footballer and manager

1985Barkhad Abdi, Somali-American actor and director

1985Dion Phaneuf, Canadian ice hockey player

1985Jesús Gámez, Spanish footballer

1985Willo Flood, Irish footballer

1984Damien Perquis, French-Polish footballer

1984David Obua, Ugandan footballer

1984Faustina Agolley, Australian television host

1984Gonzalo Javier Rodríguez, Argentinian footballer

1984Jeremy Barrett, American figure skater

1984Mandy Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress

1983Andrew Dost, American guitarist and songwriter

1983Hannes Sigurðsson, Icelandic footballer

1983Jamie Chung, American actress

1983Ryan Merriman, American actor

1982Andre Ethier, American baseball player

Died on this day

2026Anja Hatakka, Finnish actress and beauty pageant competitor (born 1938)

2026Browning Nagle, American football player (born 1968)

2026Eliot Engel, American politician (born 1947)

2026Sid Krofft, Canadian-American puppeteer and producer (born 1929)

2025Leo Beenhakker, Dutch football manager (born 1942)

2025Peter Lovesey, British writer (born 1936)

2025Ted Kotcheff, Canadian film and television director (born 1931)

2024O. J. Simpson, American football player, actor, and broadcaster (born 1947)

2023Al Jaffee, American cartoonist (born 1921)

2016Howard Marks, Welsh cannabis smuggler, writer, and legalisation campaigner (born 1945)

2015Peter Walsh, Australian farmer and politician, 6th Australian Minister for Finance (born 1935)

2015Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (born 1930)

2015Rose Francine Rogombé, Gabonese lawyer and politician, President of Gabon (born 1942)

2013Gordon Thomas, English cyclist (born 1921)

2013Robert Edwards, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1925)

2012Akin Omoboriowo, Nigerian lawyer and politician (born 1932)

2012Barbara Buchholz, German theremin player and composer (born 1959)

2012Lili Chookasian, Armenian-American operatic singer (born 1921)

2012Luis Aponte Martínez, Puerto Rican cardinal (born 1922)

2012Raymond Aubrac, French engineer and activist (born 1914)

2010Casualties in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash included:

2010Dixie Carter, American actress and singer (born 1939)

2009Deborah Digges, American poet and educator (born 1950)

2009Ioannis Patakis, Greek politician (born 1940)

2007Charles Philippe Leblond, French-Canadian biologist and academic (born 1910)

2007Dakota Staton, American singer (born 1930)

2006Kleitos Kyrou, Greek poet and translator (born 1921)

2005Al Lucas, American football player (born 1978)

2005Archbishop Iakovos of America (born 1911)

2005Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (born 1923)

Quote of the day

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

Lao Tzu

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