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- 0879 France's Louis II (the Stammerer) dies at Compiègne at age 32 after an ineffectual reign of 18 months
- 0879 Louis III becomes King of the Western Franks.
- 1500 Ludovico Sforza is captured by the Swiss troops at Novara and handed over to the French.
- 1606 The Charter of the Virginia Company of London was established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
- 1682 Louisiana USA René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle 1643-1687 starts return trip up the Mississippi with Tonty, after claiming Louisiana for France.
- 1710 The first law regulating copyright is issued in Great Britain.
- 1739 Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing
- 1741 Prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz
- 1741 War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz.
- 1790 Spanish start building forts in Nootka Sound to exploit sea otter harvest; try to head off English traders after the recent visit by Captain Cook.
- 1790 US Patent system established
- 1790 United States Patent system established
- 1812 Washington DC United States calls out the militia in preparation for a war against Britain that will begin June 18; attack on Upper Canada imminent.
- 1815 Mount Tambora eruption covers several islands with ash in Indonesia.
- 1816 The U.S. government approved the creation of a Second Bank of the United States.
- 1821 Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Turks from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.
- 1825 Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Le¢n
- 1826 The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Messolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
- 1845 More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa
- 1849 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC) sold rights for $100
- 1856 Theta Chi Fraternity Founded at Norwich University
- 1857 The Sepoy Mutiny popularly known as the "Revolt of 1857" broke out in Meerut, India as part of the Indian independence movement.
- 1863 Rebel Gen Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tenn
- 1864 Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is elected emperor of Mexico.
- 1865 At Appomattox, Gen Lee issues Gen Order #9, his last
- 1865 The last photograph of Abraham Lincoln alive was taken.
- 1866 American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms
- 1866 Campobello New Brunswick Irish American Fenians attack Campobello Island from Eastport, Maine; persuaded to leave by British warships, US agents.
- 1866 The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.
- 1868 At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Theodore. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two die from the British/ Indian troops.
- 1868 Brits defeat King of Abyssinia at Magdala
- 1869 Jos Mart founds the Cuban Revolutionary Party.
- 1871 William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park accepted
- 1872 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #120 Lachesis
- 1872 Arbor day first celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22
- 1875 Regina Saskatchewan the Northwest Mounted Police ordered to build a post on the site of the city of Calgary.
- 1877 Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia SC
- 1878 Calif St Cable Car RR Co starts service
- 1882 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii)
- 1896 Greek runner Spiridon Loues wins first modern Olympic marathon in Athens
- 1896 Spiridon Louis wins the marathon of the first Olympic Games.
- 1900 Capetown South Africa Samuel Benfield Steele 1849-1919 arrives in South Africa commanding Lord Strathcona's Horse.
- 1906 The Four Million, O. Henry's second short story collection, is published.
- 1912 RMS Titanic sets sail for its first & last voyage
- 1912 Southampton England White Star liner Titanic leaves Southamption at noon for Cherbourg France
- 1912 The RMS Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage.
- 1916 The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
- 1916 The first professional golf tournament held
- 1917 Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers
- 1917 Pvt. John George Pattison (Cdn. 50th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Vimy Ridge France
- 1919 Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
- 1924 The first train robbery is reported in Greece outside the city of Larissa.
- 1925 F Scott Fitzgerald publishes "The Great Gatsby"
- 1925 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York, New York by Charles Scribner's Sons.
- 1930 Synthetic rubber first produced
- 1932 Paul von Hindenburg elected first German president (Hitler is 2nd)
- 1933 New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps is created.
- 1936 200" mirror blank arrives in Pasadena
- 1938 Austria becomes a state of Germany
- 1938 douard Daladier becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1941 Start of siege of Tobruk, Libya, which lasts until 7 December 1941
- 1941 USS Niblack, while rescuing survivors of torpedoed ship, depth charged German submarine; first action of WW II between U.S. and German navies
- 1941 World War II: The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Paveli's Ustase fascist insurgents in power.
- 1942 Japanese capture Bataan and 36,000 troops.
- 1944 "Patrolling the Ether" is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously
- 1944 Henry Ford II is named executive vice president of Ford Motor Company.
- 1944 Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp.
- 1945 Allies liberate first Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech)
- 1945 On his last visit to Theresienstadt, Adolf Eichmann is heard to say, "I shall gladly jump into the pit, knowing that in the same pit there are 5 million enemies of the state."
- 1947 Montreal Royals of the International League sell their star player Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers; appears in uniform for the Dodgers the next day,
- 1948 Jewish Hagana repells an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek
- 1949 Sam Snead wins Masters golf tournament
- 1950 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1760 Sandra
- 1950 Visitor posting - Kathleen Virginia Laczniak Bounds is born - USA
- 1953 "House of Wax," first 3-D movie, released (NYC)
- 1953 The first 3D film is released in New York.
- 1954 Visitor posting - Bill Huebler is born - USA
- 1955 Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely
- 1957 The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
- 1958 Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco
- 1959 Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, weds Michiko.
- 1959 Japan's Crown Prince Akihito marries commoner Michiko Shoda
- 1960 Arnold Palmer wins his 2nd Masters golf tournament
- 1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
- 1961 Gary Player becomes first foreign golfer to win the Masters
- 1962 In Vermont a 4.2 earthquake was the largest historical earthquake in Vermont.
- 1963 During diving tests, USS Thresher lost with all hands (112 crew and 12 civilians) east of Cape Cod, MA
- 1963 Parliament passes Food and Drugs Act, getting more control over sale of drugs.
- 1963 The submarine USS Thresher is lost at sea, with all hands (129 officers, crewmen and civilian technicians).
- 1964 Iranian motor launch catches fire & sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)
- 1964 The Polo Grounds are demolished.
- 1965 Trois-Rivières Quebec German freighter Transatlantic sinks after colliding with Dutch ship Hermes; 3 sailors killed.
- 1966 River Patrol Boats of River Patrol Force commenced operations on inland waters of South Vietnam
- 1968 Number one hit on UK music charts - Cliff Richard - Congratulations
- 1968 Shipwreck of the Wahine outside Wellington harbour.
- 1971 Ping Pong Diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a weeklong visit.
- 1971 US table tennis team arrives in China PR
- 1972 20 days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas.
- 1972 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
- 1972 In Southern Iran a 7.1 earthquake struck the Fars Province of southern Iran killing over 5,000 and injuring 1,700.
- 1972 US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons
- 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.
- 1973 BEA flight to Basel Switz, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143
- 1974 Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli PM Golda Meir
- 1978 Volkswagen becomes the first non-American automobile manufacturer to build cars in the United States, opening a plant in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
- 1979 On "Terrible Tuesday", a tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people. (see Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak).
- 1979 Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian
- 1981 Visitor posting - John Henry Feehan Jr. is born in Little Rock, Arkansas - USA
- 1981 "Caveman" with Ringo premiers
- 1981 Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded
- 1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliment
- 1983 Visitor posting - April 10, 1983 - Melissa Tye McAnally was born - watch out world!!
- 1984 Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle with help from the Canadian Arm
- 1984 Visitor posting - Bradley Scott Rosson was brought into this wonderful world. - USA
- 1984 Visitor posting - Timothy Dillon was born in Galway Ireland
- 1984 US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors
- 1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-B mission
- 1986 Visitor posting - Megan Leigh Stevens Was Born! - USA
- 1988 Visitor posting - April 10, 1988 Happy Birthday Eric, from Aunt LaLa
- 1989 Intel corp announces shipment of the 80486 chip
- 1989 Visitor posting - Hilary Anna Proper, the most beautiful, perfect girl, was born. :-) - USA
- 1990 Visitor posting - Hi, This is Ravi Vishvkarma, i m just cool ladies and gentelman - India - [email protected]
- 1990 International Joint Commission says Canada and the US must stop dumping toxic substances into Great Lakes
- 1991 A rare tropical storm develops in the Southern Hemisphere near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
- 1991 Visitor posting - April 10, 1991 an amazing man that i will soon call my husband is born. Rafael Navarro jr
- 1991 Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
- 1992 NHL strike ends after 10 days
- 1992 Visitor posting - April 10 1992 future United States Marine Michael D. Edge was born!
- 1993 Visitor posting - James Kennedy born, Farmington, Connecticut
- 1994 Visitor posting - Paige Michelle Bensinger was born - USA
- 1996 Visitor posting - Damian Ward was born. what a lovely day. he is awesome
- 1997 Visitor posting - Kota Born Cute kitty - USA
- 1998 The Belfast Agreement is signed.
- 2001 Visitor posting - Carli Grace was born 5 lbs 14 oz - USA
- 2006 Hundreds of thousands protest H.R. 4437 (aka the "Sensenbrenner Bill") in cities across the United States.
- 2007 Visitor posting - Sebastion Cruz was born 7lbs 3.6 oz
- 2010 Visitor posting - Roland and Julie Freund Married in Nacogdoches, TX - USA
- 2010 Visitor posting - Christopher Whelan turned 24! - USA
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