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 Registered to Omicron Theta By Scott Labrecque ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 EugŠne 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 LumiŠre, 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 --- Posted by CatPost 4.30 (#07-2791) for Wildcat! 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