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Events on the 10th of April in history

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10 Apr 0428 Nestorius becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
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10 Apr 0837 Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).
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10 Apr 0837 Comet 1P/837 F1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0334 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth
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10 Apr 0847 St Leo IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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10 Apr 0879 Louis III and Carloman II become joint Kings of the Western Franks.
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10 Apr 0879 Louis III, crowned King of France
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10 Apr 1407 The lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing. He is awarded the title "Great Treasure Prince of Dharma".
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10 Apr 1500 Ludovico Sforza is captured by Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.
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10 Apr 1500 France captures duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan
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10 Apr 1512 Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen
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10 Apr 1516 1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice
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10 Apr 1552 Henri II of France occupies Metz
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10 Apr 1589 Spanish troops conquer Geertruidenberg
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10 Apr 1606 The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
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10 Apr 1656 Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo Ceylon
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10 Apr 1694 Duke Victor Amadeus of Savoye attacks Casale
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10 Apr 1710 The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, comes into force in Great Britain.
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10 Apr 1739 Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing
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10 Apr 1741 War of the Austrian Succession (10 April 1755 – 2 July 1843): defeat for Austria at Mollwitz on this date.
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10 Apr 1741 Prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz
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10 Apr 1790 US Patent system forms
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10 Apr 1790 US Patent system is established
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10 Apr 1790 Robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth
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10 Apr 1809 Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria.
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10 Apr 1815 The 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.
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10 Apr 1815 Austria declares war on realm of Naples
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10 Apr 1816 The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
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10 Apr 1816 2nd Bank of US chartered
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10 Apr 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.
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10 Apr 1825 1st hotel in Hawaii opens
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10 Apr 1825 Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Le
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10 Apr 1826 The 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.
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10 Apr 1835 Charles Darwin returns to Santiago, Chile
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10 Apr 1841 New York "Tribune" begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley
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10 Apr 1845 More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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10 Apr 1849 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (New York NY); sold rights for $100
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10 Apr 1856 The Theta Chi fraternity is founded at Norwich University in Vermont.
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10 Apr 1858 After 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.
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10 Apr 1863 Rebel General Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tennessee
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10 Apr 1864 Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.
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10 Apr 1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes emperor of M
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10 Apr 1865 American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
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10 Apr 1865 At Appomattox, General Lee issues General Order #9, his last
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10 Apr 1866 The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.
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10 Apr 1866 American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms
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10 Apr 1868 At 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.
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10 Apr 1868 British defeat King of Abyssinia at Magdala
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10 Apr 1868 1st performance of John Brahms' "Ein german Requiem"
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10 Apr 1869 Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9
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10 Apr 1871 William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park accepted
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10 Apr 1872 The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.
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10 Apr 1872 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans
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10 Apr 1872 Arbor day 1st celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to April 22
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10 Apr 1877 Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia, South Carolina
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10 Apr 1877 1st human cannonball act performed in London
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10 Apr 1878 California State Cable Car Railroad Company starts service
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10 Apr 1882 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii)
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10 Apr 1884 US Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo
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10 Apr 1887 On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.
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10 Apr 1887 President Abraham Lincoln is re-buried with his wife in Springfield IL
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10 Apr 1887 Soccer team Be Quick forms in Hairs Groningen
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10 Apr 1896 Spiridon Louis wins 1st Olympic marathon (2:58:50)
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10 Apr 1896 Greek runner Spiridon Loues wins 1st modern Olympic marathon in Athens (2:58:50)
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10 Apr 1904 British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of the Law.
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10 Apr 1912 RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
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10 Apr 1912 RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st & last voyage
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10 Apr 1913 President Woodrow Wilson throws out 1st ball, Senators beat Yankees 2-1
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10 Apr 1913 Walter Johnson begins string of 56 consecutive scoreless innings
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10 Apr 1916 The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
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10 Apr 1916 1st professional golf tournament held
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10 Apr 1917 Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers
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10 Apr 1919 Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
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10 Apr 1923 Hitler demands "hatred & more hatred" in Berlin
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10 Apr 1923 Hitler demands "hatred & more hatred" in Berlin
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10 Apr 1924 Tubular steel golf club shafts approved for championship play
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10 Apr 1925 Scribners publishes "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald
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10 Apr 1925 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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10 Apr 1925 F Scott Fitzgerald publishes "The Great Gatsby"
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10 Apr 1925 Czarina re-christens Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
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10 Apr 1930 Synthetic rubber 1st produced
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10 Apr 1930 George Headley scores 223 vs England at Kingston
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10 Apr 1932 Paul von Hindenburg elected 1st German President (Hitler is 2nd)
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10 Apr 1932 Paul von Hindenburg re-elected President of Germany
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10 Apr 1934 Stanley Cup Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 3 games to 1
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10 Apr 1935 Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London
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10 Apr 1936 200" mirror blank arrives in Pasadena
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10 Apr 1938 Austria becomes a state of Germany
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10 Apr 1938 2nd government of Blum replaced by Daladier government in France
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10 Apr 1938 New York makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license
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10 Apr 1939 Colijn's Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews
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10 Apr 1939 Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania
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10 Apr 1940 Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian "national government"
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10 Apr 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.
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10 Apr 1941 German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica
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10 Apr 1942 Cigarettes & candy rationed in Holland
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10 Apr 1943 12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape Nazi's
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10 Apr 1943 General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia
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10 Apr 1944 "Patrolling the Ether" is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously
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10 Apr 1944 Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp.
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10 Apr 1944 Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazi's
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10 Apr 1945 Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech)
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10 Apr 1945 General Blaskowitz becomes Nazi leader of "Fort Holland"
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10 Apr 1945 US troops liberate Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany
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10 Apr 1945 William Schuman and Antony Tudors ballet premieres in New York City
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10 Apr 1945 NFL's Boston Yanks & Brooklyn Tigers merge
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10 Apr 1945 Canadian troops conquer Deventer
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10 Apr 1945 German troops attack Ijsselbrug
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10 Apr 1945 US troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa
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10 Apr 1945 William Schuman & Antony Tudors ballet "Undertow" premieres in NYC
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10 Apr 1946 1st election for Japanese Diet
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10 Apr 1947 Jackie Robinson became the 1st black in modern major league baseball (Dodgers)
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10 Apr 1947 King Frederik IX of Denmark crowned
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10 Apr 1948 Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek
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10 Apr 1949 13th Golf Masters Championship Sam Snead wins, shooting a 282
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10 Apr 1953 "House of Wax, " 1st 3-D movie, released (NYC)
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10 Apr 1953 7th NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat the New York Knicks, 4 games to 1
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10 Apr 1953 Warner Bros. premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.
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10 Apr 1953 "House of Wax", 1st 3-D movie is released (New York NY)
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10 Apr 1954 KRGV TV channel 5 in Weslaco TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
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10 Apr 1955 Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely
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10 Apr 1955 19th Golf Masters Championship Cary Middlecoff wins, shooting a 279
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10 Apr 1955 9th NBA Championship Syracuse Nationals beat Fort Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 3
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10 Apr 1955 Dr Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine
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10 Apr 1956 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1
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10 Apr 1956 Philips broadcasts 1st Dutch color TV programs
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10 Apr 1956 Stanley Cup Montr
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10 Apr 1957 The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
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10 Apr 1957 John Osborne's "Entertainer", premieres in London
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10 Apr 1957 Jordanian government of Naboelsi resigns
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10 Apr 1957 Suez canal reopens for all traffic
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10 Apr 1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
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10 Apr 1958 Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco
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10 Apr 1959 Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, marries Michiko.
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10 Apr 1959 Japan's Crown Prince Akihito marries commoner Michiko Shoda
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10 Apr 1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
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10 Apr 1960 24th Golf Masters Championship Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 282
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10 Apr 1960 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
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10 Apr 1961 Dutch Foreign Minister Luns talks to JFK about New Guinea
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10 Apr 1961 Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel
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10 Apr 1961 Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to President John F Kennedy about New Guinea
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10 Apr 1961 New Washington Senators loses 1st regular-season game 4-3 to Chicago White Sox
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10 Apr 1962 1st major league game in Houston, Colt 45s beat Chicago Cubs, 11-2
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10 Apr 1962 New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits his 375th homerun
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10 Apr 1962 1st baseball game at Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium, they lose 6-3 to Cincinnati Reds
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10 Apr 1963 One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
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10 Apr 1963 Thresher, US atomic-powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Boston
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10 Apr 1964 Iranian motor launch catches fire & sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)
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10 Apr 1964 Demolition begins on Polo Grounds to clear way for housing project
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10 Apr 1967 39th Academy Awards - "Man For All Seasons, " E Taylor and P Scofield win
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10 Apr 1968 "George M!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 435 performances
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10 Apr 1968 40th Academy Awards - "Heat of the Night, " Rod Steiger and K Hepburn win
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10 Apr 1968 New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine founders and sinks at the mouth of Wellington Harbour.
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10 Apr 1968 40th Academy Awards - "Heat of the Night", Rod Steiger & Katharine Hepburn win
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10 Apr 1970 Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
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10 Apr 1971 US table tennis team arrives in China PR
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10 Apr 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 week-long visit.
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10 Apr 1971 1st baseball game at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, Phillies beat Montr
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10 Apr 1971 US table tennis team arrives in People's Rebublic of China
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10 Apr 1972 Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons.
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10 Apr 1972 Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
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10 Apr 1972 Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
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10 Apr 1972 Twenty days after he is kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is murdered by communist guerrillas.
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10 Apr 1972 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
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10 Apr 1972 US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons
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10 Apr 1973 BEA flight to Basel Switz, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143
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10 Apr 1973 A British Vickers Vanguard turboprop aircraft crashes in a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104 people.
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10 Apr 1973 BEA Vanguard Turboprop flight to Basel Switzerland, crashes into wooded hillside during landing, killing 107 of 143
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10 Apr 1973 Kansas City opens its new park, Royals Stadium, with 12-1 rout of Texas Rangers
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10 Apr 1973 Pakistan suspends constitution
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10 Apr 1974 American Boccaccio Association forms
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10 Apr 1974 Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir
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10 Apr 1974 American Boccaccio Association is established
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10 Apr 1974 Magicians Penn & Teller 1st meet
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10 Apr 1975 New York Rangers score 8 goals against New York Islanders in playoffs
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10 Apr 1976 Brewers' Don Money's grand slammer disallowed-Yankees win 9-7
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10 Apr 1976 Cleveland Cavaliers win their 1st NBA Central Division title
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10 Apr 1977 41st Golf Masters Championship Tom Watson wins, shooting a 276
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10 Apr 1977 Beverly Klass wins LPGA Women's International Golf Satellite
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10 Apr 1977 Cleveland Indians set club record for longest, 9 inning game (3:17)
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10 Apr 1978 Formation of the Major Indoor Soccer League is announced
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10 Apr 1979 Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
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10 Apr 1979 Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian
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10 Apr 1979 J R Richard throws major league record 6 wild pitches in Astrodome
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10 Apr 1981 "Caveman" with Ringo premieres
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10 Apr 1981 "Caveman" with Ringo premieres
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10 Apr 1981 Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded
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10 Apr 1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament
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10 Apr 1981 France performs nuclear test
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10 Apr 1982 Penguins 2-Isles 1 (OT) - Preliminary - Isles hold 2-1 lead
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10 Apr 1982 Los Angeles Kings losing 5-0 to Edmonton Oilers in the 3rd period, win in OT 6-5
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10 Apr 1982 Pittsburgh Penguins 2-New York Islanders 1 (OT) - Preliminary - Islanders hold 2-1 lead
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10 Apr 1983 Caps 3-Isles 6 - Patrick Division Semifinals - Isles win series 3-2
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10 Apr 1983 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
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10 Apr 1983 Washington Capitals 3-New York Islanders 6 - Patrick Division Semifinals - Islanders win series 3-2
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10 Apr 1983 Baltimore's Eddie Murray hits his 1,000 career hit
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10 Apr 1983 Hennie Kuiper (Netherlands) wins Paris-Roubaix cycle race
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10 Apr 1983 Jordan's King Hussein ceases negotiations with PLO
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10 Apr 1984 Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
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10 Apr 1984 John Long (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 51 games
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10 Apr 1984 US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors
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10 Apr 1985 Caps 4-Isles 3 (OT) - Patrick Division Semifinals - Caps hold 1-0 lead
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10 Apr 1985 At 80, Leo Sites becomes oldest bowler to score a 300 game
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10 Apr 1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-B mission
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10 Apr 1985 Washington Capitals 4-New York Islanders 3 (OT) - Patrick Division Semifinals - Capitals hold 1-0 lead
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10 Apr 1986 "Big Deal" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 70 performances
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10 Apr 1986 Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan
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10 Apr 1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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10 Apr 1988 Islanders beat Devils 5-4 (OT) 1st round tied at 2-2
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10 Apr 1988 The Ojhri Camp disaster: Killing more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad as a result of rockets and other munitions expelled by the blast.
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10 Apr 1988 Herschel Walker performs the Fort Worth Ballet
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10 Apr 1988 New York Islanders beat New Jersey Devils 5-4 (OT) 1st round tied at 2-2
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10 Apr 1988 8th Golden Raspberry Awards Leonard Part 6 wins
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10 Apr 1988 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA San Diego Inamori Golf Classic
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10 Apr 1989 H J Heinz, Van Camp Seafood and Bumble Bee Seafood say they would not buy tuna caught in nets that also trap dolphins
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10 Apr 1989 Intel corp announces shipment of the 80486 chip
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10 Apr 1989 10th Emmy Sports Award presentation
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10 Apr 1989 24th Academy of Country Music Awards Hank Williams Jr, Alabama win
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10 Apr 1990 CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma Japan
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10 Apr 1990 Curtly Ambrose takes 8-45 in cricket vs England at Bridgetown
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10 Apr 1991 A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
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10 Apr 1991 Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
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10 Apr 1991 Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd & 42nd St, New York NY)
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10 Apr 1991 Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138
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10 Apr 1991 Los Angeles King Wayne Gretzky scores NHL record 93rd playoff goal
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10 Apr 1991 Martin Zubero swims world record 200 meter backstroke (1:52.51)
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10 Apr 1992 Floriade (Flower Show) opens at the Hague, Netherlands
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10 Apr 1992 NHL strike ends after 10 days
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10 Apr 1992 25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka
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10 Apr 1993 BPAA US Open by Del Ballard Jr
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10 Apr 1993 Ottawa Senators win 1st road game (New York Islanders) after 38 straight loses
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10 Apr 1993 Pittsburgh Penguins win their NHL record 17 game winning streak
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10 Apr 1994 "Les Miserables, " opens at Hiten Theatre, Osaka
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10 Apr 1994 "Les Miserables", opens at Hiten Theatre, Osaka Japan
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10 Apr 1994 58th Golf Masters Championship Jose M Olazabal wins, shooting a 279
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10 Apr 1995 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 24 performances
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10 Apr 1995 New York City bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more
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10 Apr 1998 Northern Ireland peace deal reached (Good Friday Agreement).
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10 Apr 2009 President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
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10 Apr 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński and dozens of other senior officials
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