Subj : This Day In History
To : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Sat Apr 10 2021 12:05 pm
Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
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By Scott Labrecque
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Births:
04/10/ 401 Theodosius II, the younger, emperor of Austria
04/10/1569 Emilia van Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange & Anna of Saxon
04/10/1583 Hugo Grotius, Holland, jurist, father of international law
04/10/1633 Werner Fabricius, composer
04/10/1695 Balthazar Huydecoper, translator/historian
04/10/1737 Francois Giroust, composer
04/10/1778 William Hazlitt, Maidstone Kent England, essayist/critic
04/10/1783 Hortense E de Beauharnais, French queen of Netherlands (1806-10)
04/10/1794 Matthew Calbraith Perry, Commodore, opened Japan
04/10/1797 Claude Ambroise Seurat, Troyes France, (World's skinniest man)
04/10/1806 Leonidas Polk, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864
04/10/1808 Auguste Franchomme, composer
04/10/1823 Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brig General (Confederate Army)
04/10/1827 Lewis Wallace, Major General (Union volunteers)/author (Ben Hur)
04/10/1829 William Booth, founded Salvation Army
04/10/1833 David McMurtrie Gregg, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
04/10/1833 James Edward Rains, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
04/10/1847 Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer
04/10/1847 Joseph Pulitzer, Hungary, publisher (St Louis Post-Dispatch, NY Worl
04/10/1854 Jozef M T Orelio, baritone
04/10/1857 Henry Ernest Dudeney, mathematician/puzzle maker
04/10/1864 Eug�ne FC 'Eugen' Albert, German pianist/composer (Golem)
04/10/1868 George Arliss, English/US actor (Devil, Green Goddess)
04/10/1880 Frances Perkins, 1st woman to hold cabinet-level position (Labor)
04/10/1882 Simon FHJ Berkelbach Van de Sprenkel, theologist (Fear & Religion)
04/10/1887 Bernardo A Houssay, Argentine physiologist (Nobel 1947)
04/10/1887 Heinz Tiessen, composer
04/10/1892 Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist (Rassenkunde)
04/10/1892 Victor de Sabata, Trieste Italy, conductor/composer (Il Macigno)
04/10/1894 Ben Nicholson, English painter/sculptor (Circle)
04/10/1898 Hans Ehrke, German writer/poet (Narrenspiegel, F�er)
04/10/1900 Jean Duvieusart, premier (Belgium 1950)
04/10/1903 Clare Boothe Luce, former US ambassador to Vatican
04/10/1905 Jan H van Ro�en, diplomat/Netherland foreign minister
04/10/1906 Fud Livingston, composer
04/10/1906 Kathleen Major, principal (St Hilda's College, England)
04/10/1907 Pete Desjardins, US, platform/springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1928)
04/10/1908 Aidan Crawley, CEO (London Weekend TV)
04/10/1910 Abu-Bakr Khairat, composer
04/10/1911 Maurice Schumann, French statesman/writer (La Voix du couvre-feu)
04/10/1912 Clarke Hinkle, NFL fullback (Green Bay Packers)
04/10/1913 Stefan Heym, German writer (Crusaders, Family Benda)
04/10/1915 Harry Morgan, Detroit Mich, actor (December Bride, M*A*S*H, Dragnet)
04/10/1915 Leo Vroman, poet/biologist
04/10/1917 Robert Burns Woodward, organic chemist (Nobel 1965)
04/10/1921 Chuck Connors, Bkln NY, actor (Rifleman, Branded, Cowboy in Africa)
04/10/1921 Sheb Wooley, Erick Okla, vocalist (Purple People Eater, Hee Haw)
04/10/1923 Floyd M Simmons, actor/decathlete (Olympic-bronze-1948, 52)
04/10/1924 David Halberstam, NY Times intl correspondant (Pulitzer 1964)
04/10/1926 'Alvin' Junior Samples, Cummings Ga, country singer (Hee Haw)
04/10/1926 Jacques Casterede, composer
04/10/1929 Dusan Radic, composer
04/10/1929 Max Von Sydow, Lund Sweden, actor (Hawaii, Exorcist, Dune, Dreamscap
04/10/1930 Lord Morton, of Shauna, senator (College of Justice, Scotland)
04/10/1931 Marcel van Maele, Belgian poet
04/10/1932 Adrian Henri, poet/president (Liverpool Academy of Arts)
04/10/1932 Hari Rhodes, Cincinnati Oh, actor (Mike-Daktari, Roots)
04/10/1932 Mae Faggs, US sprinter (Olympic-gold-1952)
04/10/1932 Mae Heriwentha Faggs Starr, NJ, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
04/10/1932 Omar Sharif, [Michael Shalhoub], Egypt, actor (Dr Zhivago, Top Secre
04/10/1933 Philip Corner, composer
04/10/1933 Poncie Ponce, actor (Kazuo Kim-Hawaiian Eye)
04/10/1933 Robert Rhodes James, historian
04/10/1934 Zsolt Durko, composer
04/10/1935 Jorge Mester, Mexico City Mexico, conductor (Louisville Orch 1967-79
04/10/1935 Patrick Garland, director (Doll House)
04/10/1936 John Madden, Oakland Raiders football coach, CBS sports commentator
04/10/1936 Robert 'Bobby' Smith, US singer (Spinners)
04/10/1937 Stan Mellor, British racehorse trainer/jockey
04/10/1938 Don Meredith, Mount Vernon Texas, NFL QB (Cowboys)/Mon Night Footbal
04/10/1939 Daniel Oliver, NYC, chairman (Federal Trade Commission)
04/10/1940 Gloria Hunniford, British broadcaster
04/10/1941 Paul Theroux, American travel book writer (Mosquito Coast)
04/10/1944 Danny Woods, US musician (Chairman of the Board)
04/10/1945 Vera Misevich, USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1980)
04/10/1946 Armand, [Herman van Loenhout], singer (Blommenkinders)
04/10/1947 Bunny Waller, vocalist/percussionist (Bob Marley & Wailers)
04/10/1948 Thomas Spencer, conservative MEP
04/10/1949 Frank de Lion, guitarist (Bob Color)
04/10/1950 Eddie Hazel, US pop guitarist (Funkadelic-Uncle Jam Wants You)
04/10/1952 Steven Seagal, actor (Above the Law, Hard to Kill)
04/10/1953 David Moorcroft, British athlete
04/10/1954 Jouko T�rm�nen, Finland, 90m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1980)
04/10/1958 Ken Griffy, baseball player (Cin Reds, NY Yanks)
04/10/1960 Brian Setzer, rock guitarist (Lobos-La Bamba, Stray Cats-Sexy & 17)
04/10/1960 Julie Fulton, Evanston Ill, actress (Lime Steel)
04/10/1961 Jeb Adams, Hollywood Calif, actor (Lt Jeb Pruitt-Baa Baa Black Sheep
04/10/1961 Olivia Brown, Frankfurt GFR, actor (Det Trudy Joplin-Miami Vice)
04/10/1962 Cathy Turner, Rochester NY, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
04/10/1963 Warren DeMartini, heavy metal rocker (Dokken-Alone Again, Ratt)
04/10/1964 Alan 'Reni' Wren, English pop drummer (Stone Roses-Fools Gold)
04/10/1965 Tim 'Herb' Alexander, US funk metal drummer (Primus-Prok soda)
04/10/1969 Billy Jacoby, Flushing NY, actor (Brad-Silver Spoons, Maggie)
04/10/1969 William Jayne, actor (Mikey Randall-Parker Lewis Can't Lose)
04/10/1970 Wesley Barnett, St Joseph Mo, Oly weightlifter (Pan Am-silver-1987)
04/10/1975 Floris, Prince of Netherlands
04/10/1984 Zoe, Melbourne Australia, 1st frozen-embryo child
Deaths:
04/10/ 879 Louis II, the stutterer, King of France (877-79), dies
04/10/ 947 Hugo van Arles, count of Arles/king of Italy, dies
04/10/1008 Notger, bishop of Luik (972-1008), dies
04/10/1362 Machteld, countess of Holland, dies
04/10/1533 Frederik I, King of Denmark/Norway (1523-33), dies at 61
04/10/1585 Gregory XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italian Pope (1572-85), dies
04/10/1640 Agostino Agazzari, composer, dies at 61
04/10/1640 Charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, daughter of Willem I, dies at 60
04/10/1712 Yusuf Nabi, Turkish poet (Hayriye), dies at about 77
04/10/1723 Claude F Tserclaes, South Neth earl of Tilly, dies at 74
04/10/1731 Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich, composer, dies at 58
04/10/1756 Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer, dies at 95
04/10/1760 Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, dies at 75
04/10/1784 Simon Fokke, book illustrator, dies at 71
04/10/1807 Anna Amalia van Brumswijk-Wolfenb�ttel, duchess of Saxon-Weimar, die
04/10/1810 Konrad Back, composer, dies at 61
04/10/1825 Paul-Louis Courier, (M�r�), French writer/interpreter, dies at 53
04/10/1848 Godert AGP baron van Capellen, gove-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 69
04/10/1862 William Harvey Lamb Wallace, US lawyer/brig-general, dies at 40
04/10/1863 Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist, dies at 77
04/10/1885 John H Scholten, theologist (Free Want), dies at 73
04/10/1909 Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, dies at 72
04/10/1911 Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, composer, dies at 35
04/10/1919 Emiliano Zapata, Mexican leader, murdered
04/10/1920 Tryggve Andersen, Norse writer (Mod Kvaeld), dies at 53
04/10/1929 Edmond Thieffry, Belgium, WW I pilot, dies
04/10/1937 Algernon Ashton, composer, dies at 77
04/10/1938 Nana Annor Adjaye, Pan-Africanist, dies in W Nzima Ghana
04/10/1945 Henry Werkman, Dutch resistance fighter (Blue Schuit), executed at 6
04/10/1954 Auguste Lumi�re, French photograph/movie pioneer, dies at 81
04/10/1955 Oskar Frederik Lindberg, composer, dies at 68
04/10/1956 Bozidar Sirola, composer, dies at 66
04/10/1956 Clarence Beaumont, 1st batter in 1st World Series, dies at 75
04/10/1956 Jozef Szulc, composer, dies at 81
04/10/1958 W C Handy, composer/musician, dies at 84 in NY
04/10/1960 Arthur Benjamin, Austral composer/pianist (Devil Take Her), dies at
04/10/1962 Stu Stutcliffe, original Beatle bassist, dies
04/10/1966 Christian J Modeste, king of gypsies, dies at 71
04/10/1966 Evelyn Waugh, British writer (Black mischief), dies
04/10/1974 Roger Bastide, French sociologist, dies at 76
04/10/1975 Marjorie Main, actress (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies at 85
04/10/1975 Walker Evans, US photographer (Fortune Magazine), dies at 71
04/10/1979 Nino Rota, Italian composer, dies at 67
04/10/1980 Kay Medford, actress (Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love), dies at
04/10/1983 Issam Sartawi, PLO ambassador to Portugal, murdered
04/10/1983 Olf S von Euler-Chelpin, Swedish physiologist, dies
04/10/1984 Nate Nelson, R&B-singer (Flamingos-I'll Be Home), dies on 52 birthda
04/10/1986 Joseph P Addabbo, US defence specialist/(Sen-D), dies at 61
04/10/1991 Kevin Peter Hall, actor (Harry & Hendersons), dies of aids at 35
04/10/1991 Natalie Schafer, actress (Gilligan's Island), dies at 90 from cancer
04/10/1992 Sam Kinison, loud mouth comedian, dies at 38 in a car crash
04/10/1993 Chris Hani, sec-gen South Africian Communist Party, murdered
04/10/1994 Victor Afanasiev, Rus editor-in-chief of Pravda (1976-89), dies at 7
Significant Events:
04/10/ 847 St Leo IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
04/10/ 879 Louis III, crowned King of France
04/10/1516 1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice
04/10/1589 Spanish troops conquer Geertruidenberg
04/10/1656 Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo Ceylon
04/10/1739 Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing
04/10/1741 Prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz
04/10/1790 US Patent system established
04/10/1816 2nd Bank of US chartered
04/10/1825 1st hotel in Hawaii opens
04/10/1825 Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Le�n
04/10/1835 Charles Darwin returns to Santiago, Chile
04/10/1845 More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa
04/10/1849 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC); sold rights for $100
04/10/1863 Rebel Gen Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tenn
04/10/1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes emperor of M�xico
04/10/1865 At Appomattox, Gen Lee issues Gen Order #9, his last
04/10/1866 American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms
04/10/1868 Brits defeat King of Abyssinia at Magdala
04/10/1871 William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park accepted
04/10/1872 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans
04/10/1872 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #120 Lachesis
04/10/1872 Arbor day 1st celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22
04/10/1877 Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia SC
04/10/1878 Calif St Cable Car RR Co starts service
04/10/1880 J Palisa discovers asteroid #216 Kleopatra
04/10/1882 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii)
04/10/1896 Spiridon Louis wins 1st Olympic marathon (2:58:50)
04/10/1912 J Palisa discovers asteroid #730 Athanasia
04/10/1912 RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st & last voyage
04/10/1916 1st professional golf tournament held
04/10/1917 Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers
04/10/1923 Hitler speaks on 'hatred & more hatred' in Berlin
04/10/1925 Czarina re-christened Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
04/10/1925 F Scott Fitzgerald publishes 'Great Gatsby'
04/10/1930 Synthetic rubber 1st produced
04/10/1932 Paul von Hindenburg elected 1st German president (Hitler is 2nd)
04/10/1934 Chic Black Hawks beat Det Red Wings 3 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
04/10/1936 200' mirror blank arrives in Pasadena
04/10/1938 2nd govt of Blum replaced by Daladier govt in France
04/10/1938 Austria becomes a state of Germany
04/10/1939 Colijn's Dutch govt opens camp Westerbork for German Jews
04/10/1939 Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania
04/10/1941 German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica
04/10/1942 Cigarettes & candy rationed in Holland
04/10/1943 12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape nazis
04/10/1944 'Patrolling the Ether' is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously
04/10/1944 Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazis
04/10/1945 Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech)
04/10/1945 Canadian troops conquer Deventer
04/10/1945 German troops attack Ijsselbrug
04/10/1945 NFL's Boston Yanks & Brooklyn Tigers merge
04/10/1945 US troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa
04/10/1946 1st election for Japanese Diet
04/10/1947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball (Dodgers)
04/10/1947 King Frederik IX of Denmark crowned
04/10/1948 Jewish Hagana repells an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek
04/10/1949 Sam Snead wins Masters golf tournament
04/10/1950 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1760 Sandra
04/10/1953 'House of Wax,' 1st 3-D movie, released (NYC)
04/10/1953 Minneapolis beats New York, 4 games to 1, for NBA championship
04/10/1954 KRGV TV channel 5 in Weslaco, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
04/10/1955 Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely
04/10/1955 Syracuse beats Fort Wayne, 4 games to 3, for NBA championship
04/10/1956 Montreal Canadiens beat Det Red Wings 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
04/10/1956 Philips broadcasts 1st Dutch color TV programs
04/10/1957 Jordanian govt of Naboelsi resigns
04/10/1957 Suez canal for all ship workers reopens
04/10/1958 Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco
04/10/1959 Japan's Crown Prince Akihito marries commoner Michiko Shoda
04/10/1960 Arnold Palmer wins his 2nd Masters golf tournament
04/10/1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
04/10/1961 Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to JFK about New Guinea
04/10/1961 Gary Player becomes 1st foreign golfer to win Masters
04/10/1962 1st baseball game at LA's Dodger Stadium
04/10/1962 1st major league game in Houston, Colt .45s beat Chicago Cubs, 11-2
04/10/1962 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits his 375th HR
04/10/1963 Thresher, US atomic-powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Bosto
04/10/1964 Iranian motor launch catches fire & sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)
04/10/1971 1st baseball game at Phila's Veterans Stadium, Phils beat Expos
04/10/1971 US table tennis team arrives in China PR
04/10/1972 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
04/10/1972 US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons
04/10/1973 BEA flight to Basel Switz, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143
04/10/1973 Pakistan suspends constitution
04/10/1974 American Boccaccio Association established
04/10/1974 Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli PM Golda Meir
04/10/1975 Rangers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
04/10/1976 Brewers' Don Money's grand slammer disallowed-Yanks win 9-7
04/10/1976 Cleve Cavaliers win their 1st NBA Central Division title
04/10/1978 Formation of Major Indoor Soccer League announced
04/10/1979 Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian
04/10/1981 'Caveman' with Ringo premieres
04/10/1981 Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded
04/10/1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parlime
04/10/1982 LA Kings losing 5-0 to Edmonton in 3rd period, win in OT 6-5
04/10/1982 Penguins 2-Isles 1 (OT)-Preliminary- Isles hold 2-1 lead
04/10/1983 Caps 3-Isles 6-Patrick Div Semifinals-Isles win series 3-2
04/10/1983 Hennie Kuiper wins Paris-Roubaix
04/10/1983 Jordan king Hussein ceases negotiations with PLO
04/10/1984 Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
04/10/1984 John Long (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 51 games
04/10/1984 US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors
04/10/1985 At 80 Leo Sites becomes oldest bowler to score a 300 game
04/10/1985 Caps 4-Isles 3 (OT)-Patrick Div Semifinals-Caps hold 1-0 lead
04/10/1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-B mission
04/10/1986 Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan
04/10/1988 Herschel Walker performs Fort Worth Ballet
04/10/1988 Islanders beat Devils 5-4 (OT) 1st round tied at 2-2
04/10/1989 Intel corp announces shipment of 80486 chip
04/10/1990 CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma Japan
04/10/1991 Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138
04/10/1991 Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd & 42nd St, NYC)
04/10/1992 25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka
04/10/1992 Floriade (Flower Show) opens at Hague, Netherlands
04/10/1992 NHL strike ends after 10 days
04/10/1993 Ottawa Senators win 1st road game (Islanders) after 38 straight lose
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