more events on April 10
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1981
Imprisoned Irish Republican Army hunger striker Bobby Sands is elected to the British Parliament.
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1974
Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir.
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1971
The American table tennis team arrives in China.
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1947
Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play major league baseball as he takes the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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1945
Allied troops liberate the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald north of Weener, Germany.
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In their second attempt to take the Seelow Heights, near Berlin, the Red Army launches numerous attacks against the defending Germans. The Soviets gain one mile at the cost of 3,000 men killed and 368 tanks destroyed.
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1941
Paul Theroux, author (The Great Railway Bazaar).
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U.S. troops occupy Greenland to prevent Nazi infiltration.
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1938
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1934
David Halberstam, New York Times correspondent, author, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1964.
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1932
Omar Sharif (Michael Shalhoub), actor (Dr. Zhivago).
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Paul von Hindenburg is elected president in Germany.
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1930
The first synthetic rubber is produced.
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1925
F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
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1917
Robert B. Woodward, synthetic chemist.
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1912
The Titanic begins her maiden voyage which will end in disaster.
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1903
Clare Boothe Luce, reporter, U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
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1902
South African Boers accept British terms of surrender.
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1880
Frances Perkins, U.S. labor secretary, first female cabinet member.
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1867
A.E. (George William Russell), Irish poet and mystic.
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1866
The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is formed.
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1865
At Appomattox Court, Va, General Robert E. Lee issues his last orders to the Army of Northern Virginia.
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1862
Union forces begin the bombardment of Fort Pulaski in Georgia along the Tybee River.
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1827
Lew Wallace, Civil War general, lawyer, diplomat and author of Ben Hur.
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1809
Austria declares war on France and her forces enter Bavaria.
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1794
Matthew C. Perry, American naval officer, opened Japan to trade with the west.
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1790
The U.S. patent system is established.
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1583
Hugo Grotius, Dutch statesman and scholar.