What are the important events that happened on April 10? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

April 10: Facts & Myths About This Day

April 10 is the 101^st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 265 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 28, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,545,120 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectahenagon’ day.

Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 294 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,128 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

April 10 Historical Events

• 879 –
  Louis III becomes King of the Western Franks.
• 1821 –
  Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.
• 1868 –
  At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two die from the British/Indian troops.
• 1944 –
  Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp.
• 1970 –
  Paul McCartney announces that he leaves The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
• 1972 –
  Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons.
• 1972 –
  Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
• 1992 –
  The Maraghar Massacre, killing of ethnic Armenian civil population of the village Maraghar by Azerbaijani troops during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
• 2009 –
  President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
• 2010 –
  Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President Lech Kaczyński.

Who were born on April 10?

• 401 –
  Theodosius II, Roman emperor (d. 450)
• 1926 –
  Junior Samples, American southern comedian (d. 1983)
• 1929 –
  Max von Sydow, Swedish actor
• 1933 –
  Rokusuke Ei, Japanese lyricist and author
• 1934 –
  David Halberstam, American journalist and author (d. 2007)
• 1959 –
  Davy Carton, Irish musician (Saw Doctors)
• 1969 –
  Billy Jayne, American actor
• 1974 –
  Eric Greitens, American former military officer
• 1981 –
  Michael Pitt, American actor
• 2007 –
  Princess Ariane of the Netherlands

Who died on April 10?

• 879 –
  King Louis the Stammerer of the West Franks (b. 846)
• 1599 –
  Gabrielle d'Estrée, mistress of Henry IV of France (b. 1571)
• 1706 –
  Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1666)
• 1938 –
  Joe “King” Oliver, American musician (b. 1885)
• 1958 –
  Chuck Willis, American singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
• 1966 –
  Evelyn Waugh, English writer (b. 1903)
• 1979 –
  Nino Rota, Italian composer (b. 1911)
• 2000 –
  Larry Linville, American actor (b. 1939)
• 2000 –
  Peter Jones, English actor (b. 1920)
• 2005 –
  Al Lucas, American football player (b. 1978)