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April 10 Historical Events

The following events took place on April 10. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 47 events. Showing 31 - 47.

  • 1959
    Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, marries Michiko.
  • 1963
    One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
  • 1968
    New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine founders and sinks at the mouth of Wellington Harbour.
  • 1970
    Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
  • 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.
  • 1972
    Twenty days after he is kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is murdered by communist guerrillas.
  • 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.
  • 1972
    Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
  • 1972
    Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons.
  • 1973
    A British Vickers Vanguard turboprop aircraft crashes in a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104 people.
  • 1979
    Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
  • 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.
  • 1991
    Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
  • 1991
    A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
  • 1998
    Northern Ireland peace deal reached (Good Friday Agreement).
  • 2009
    President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces he has abrogated the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
  • 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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