Historical Events In April - 10

1983  On this day in history issam Sartawi, PLO ambassador to Portugal, murdered  

1984  Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle with help from the Canadian Arm on April - 10.  

1984  US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors on April - 10.  

1984  Nate Nelson, R&B-singer (Flamingos-I'll Be Home), dies on 52 birthday on April - 10.  

1985  Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-B mission on April - 10.  

1986  On April - 10 joseph P Addabbo, US defence specialist/(Sen-D), dies at 61  

1988  Cliff Gladwin, cricketer (8 Tests for England 1947-49), dies on April - 10.  

1989  On April - 10 intel corp announces shipment of "fast" 80486 chip  

1989  On this day in history intel corp announces shipment of the 80486 chip  

1989  Joan Barry, dies at 85 on April - 10.  

1990  On April - 10 international Joint Commission says Canada and the US must stop dumping toxic substances into Great Lakes  

1991  Kevin Peter Hall, actor (Harry & Hendersons), dies of AIDS at 35 on April - 10.  

1992  NHL strike ends after 10 days on this day in history.  

1992  On this day in history ken Ward, dies at 37  

1993  Chris Hani, sec-gen South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50 on April - 10.  

1994  On April - 10 james L Lyons, jazz promoter, dies at 77  

1995  Chen Yun, VPM of China (1949-75, 79-80), dies on this day in history.  

1996  Jessica Dubroff, attempting to be youngest pilot, dies in crash at 7 on April - 10.  

2006  Romano Prodi narrowly defeats Silvio Berlusconi in the Italian parliamentary elections on April - 10.  

2010  On April - 10 the President of Poland, Lech KaczyÅ„ski, is among 96 killed when their airplane crashes in western Russia.  

2012  United Nations deadline for Syrian troop withdrawal passes as violence continues on April - 10.  

2013  Japan and Taiwan sign an agreement on fishing rights around the Senkaku Islands on this day in history.  

2014  88 civilians are killed by barrel bombs from Syrian war planes in Aleppo, Syria on this day in history.  

2017  Edward Enninful is announced the new Editor of "British Vogue" its first male and black editor on April - 10.  

2017  On April - 10 alabama Governor Robert Bentley resigns over relationship with an aide and possible misuse of state funds to cover it up  

2017  On April - 10 "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" directed by James Gunn and starring Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana premieres in Toyko  

2018  On April - 10 facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg begins testifying before US Congress about data use and security  

2019  On this day in history first-ever photo of a black hole announced, taken by The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration in 2017 in galaxy M87, 6.5 billion times the mass of earth, 55 million light-years away Learn More >>  

2019  Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project announce the first ever image of a black hole, located in the centre of the M87 galaxy on this day in history.  

2019  On April - 10 fossil fragments found in the Callao Cave in the Philippines reveal the existence of the Homo luzonensis species of humans. The species is named after the island where it was discovered, Luzon.  

2020  Kivu Ebola epidemic: The Democratic Republic of the Congo reports the first case of Ebola since February 2020. The outbreak has killed more than 2,200 people since August 2018 on this day in history.  

2020  The ESA/JAXA space probe BepiColombo makes its final gravity assist around Earth and begins to depart for Venus, where it will make several gravity assist maneuvers before finally arriving at Mercury in 2025 on this day in history.  

2020  [COVID-19 pandemic] The death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 100,000 globally, a ten-fold increase from March 20 on this day in history.  

2020  On April - 10 [COVID-19 pandemic] EU finance ministers agree on a €540 billion loan package to alleviate the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.  

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1389  Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464) was born on April - 10.  

1512  James V, king of Scotland (1513-42) was born on this day in history.  

1569  On April - 10 birth of emilia van Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange & Anna of Saxon  

1583  On this day in history birth of hugo Grotius, Holland, jurist, father of international law  

1633  On April - 10 birth of werner Fabricius, composer  

1651  On this day in history birth of ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (d. 1708)  

1656  On April - 10 birth of rené Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (d. 1718)  

1695  Balthazar Huydecoper, Dutch translator/historian was born on April - 10.  

0879  On this day in history louis II, the stutterer, King of France (877-79), dies  

0947  On this day in history hugo van Arles, count of Arles/king of Italy, dies  

0948  On this day in history death of king Hugh of Italy  

1008  On April - 10 notger, bishop of Luik (972-1008), dies  

1362  On April - 10 machteld, countess of Holland, dies  

1533  On this day in history frederik I, King of Denmark/Norway (1523-33), dies at 61  

1545  Death of Costanzo Festa, Italian composer on this day in history.  

1585  On April - 10 gregory XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italian Pope (1572-85), dies