APRIL 10

• 1912 - The RMS Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England
• 1933 - The Civilian Conservation Corps is created
• 1957 - The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
• 1963 - The submarine USS Thresher is lost at sea, with all hands (129 officers, crewmen and civilian technicians)
• 1970 - Paul McCartney announces that The Beatles have broken up
• 1973 - A British Vanguard turboprop crashes during a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104
• 1988 - the comic strip Fox Trot débuts
• 1998 - The Belfast Agreement is signed

Births

• 1583 - Hugo Grotius, jurist († 1645)
• 1755 - Samuel Hahnemann, physician, originator of homeopathy († 1843)
• 1783 - Hortense de Beauharnais, queen of Holland as wife of Louis Bonaparte (†1837)
• 1794 - Matthew Perry, American Commodore who forced the opening of Japan to the West (†1858)
• 1829 - William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army († 1912)
• 1847 - Joseph Pulitzer, journalist and publisher († 1911)
• 1868 - George Arliss, actor († 1946)
• 1870 (O.S) - Vladimir Lenin, Premier of the Soviet Union († 1924)
• 1894 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist, Gandhian and educationist.
• 1910 - Eddy Duchin, musician († 1951)
• 1913 - Stefan Heym, author
• 1915 - Harry Morgan, actor
• 1917 - Robert Burns Woodward chemist († 1979-07-08)
• 1918 - Jørn Utzon, architect
• 1921 - Chuck Connors, actor, baseball player († 1992)
• 1929 - Max von Sydow, actor
• 1932 - Omar Sharif, actor
• 1934 - David Halberstam, writer
• 1936 - John Madden, American football coach, broadcaster
• 1941 - Paul Theroux, author
• 1950 - Eddie Hazel, guitarist (P-Funk, The Temptations)
• 1951 - Steven Seagal, actor
• 1958 - Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds, music producer, film producer
• 1959 - Brian Setzer, musician ("The Stray Cats", "The Brian Setzer Orchestra")
• 1979 - Tsuyoshi Domoto, artist
• 1980 - Charlie Hunnam, actor
• 1983 - Ryan Merriman, actor
• 1988 - Haley Joel Osment, actor

Deaths

• 1585 - Pope Gregory XIII
• 1599 - Gabrielle d'Estrée, mistress of King Henry IV of France
• 1813 - Joseph-Louis Lagrange mathematician
• 1882 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, painter
• 1919 - Emiliano Zapata, revolutionary
• 1931 - Khalil Gibran - Lebanese poet and painter
• 1939 - Alfredo Panzini, writer
• 1940 - Mrs. Patrick Campbell, actress
• 1945 - Charles Nordhoff, writer
• 1954 - Auguste Lumière, motion picture pioneer
• 1962 - Stuart Sutcliffe, original bass player for The Beatles
• 1962 - Michael Curtiz, director
• 1965 - Linda Darnell, actress
• 1966 - Evelyn Waugh, writer
• 1975 - Marjorie Main, actress
• 1975 - Josephine Baker, dancer
• 1979 - Nino Rota, composer
• 1993 - Chris Hani, activist
• 1999 - Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat biochemist
• 2000 - Peter Jones, comedian and scriptwriter
• 2000 - Larry Linville, actor
• 2001 - Willie Stargell, baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame

Holidays and observances

See Also:

April 9 - April 11 - March 10 - May 10 -- listing of all days

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December