April 10

Events

• 2019 Second Libyan Civil War, 2019 Western Libya offensive: Aguila Saleh, speaker of the Tobruk-based Libyan parliament which Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army is loyal to, states that no peace agreement or UN-backed conference is possible while Tripoli "is occupied by armed groups". (Fox News)The Libyan National Army says it has shot down a pro-GNA L-39 Albatros over Tripoli. (RT)
• 2018 Syrian Civil War: 2018 Douma chemical attack: Anonymous U.S. officials say the United States is considering a multinational military response against Syrian government forces, with experts saying that France, the United Kingdom, and Middle Eastern allies would be considered to help. (Reuters)Eurocontrol warns airlines to operate with care over the Mediterranean Sea owing to planned airstrikes in Syria. (Reuters)
• 2017 South Sudanese Civil War: Government-aligned militias kill 16 people during a raid in Wau, South Sudan. (Reuters)
• 2016 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): The Taliban, in a statement claiming responsibility for yesterday's rocket attacks into Kabul, Afghanistan, says the intended target was U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who was in the capital to help defuse a crisis within the unity government. Kerry had departed less than an hour earlier. No casualties have been reported. (CNN)
• 2015 Yemeni Civil War (2015–present): The Pakistani parliament votes not to join the Saudi led coalition in Yemen. (al-Jazeera)The United Nations warns that the situation in Yemen continues to deteriorate as humanitarian aid starts to arrive. (Voice of America)
• 2014 At least 10 people are killed after a tour bus collides with a FedEx truck on Interstate 5 near Orland, California. (CNN) (USA Today)
• 2013 Worldwide sales of personal computers fall 14% during the first quarter of 2013, the largest drop on record since tracking began in 1994. (eWeek) (The New York Times)
• 2012 Syrian uprising:
• 2011 United Nations and French forces open fire on the residence of the President of Côte d'Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo in response to recent attacks. (AP via ''Times Union'')
• 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President Lech Kaczynski.
• 2009 President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
• 2008 Mayor Anders Lago of Södertälje, Sweden, says that his small city of about 80,000 is currently home to nearly 6,000 Iraqis. ampquotMore refugees than the United States and Canada togetherampquot. (''The International Herald Tribune'')
• 2007 A Somali committee estimates the death toll of recent fighting between Ethiopian and Somali Government forces and insurgents in Mogadishu at more than 1,000. (Reuters Alertnet)
• 2006 A fire at the Brand India Fair, Victoria Park, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, kills at least 100.
• 2005 An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 occurs near Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia at 10:18 UTC. (BBC)
• 2004 Iraq Occupation and Insurgency:: Iraq marks the anniversary of Saddam Hussein's fall with fighting and bloodshed. Kurds, in the relatively stable north, celebrate with parties and the melting of an ice statue of the ousted dictator. (Al Jazeera)Al Arabiya reports an Iraqi rebel group in Falluja threatens to target Christians, assassinate or kidnap priests, and destroy churches. Saraya wal Mujahideen also calls on the Pope and the United Nations to stop the town's siege. (Reuters)
• 2003 United States Green Berets and Kurdish fighters enter the city of Kirkuk in Iraq with little resistance. Turkey and U.S., in separate statements, say they will not allow the Kurds to occupy the city.
• 1995 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 24 performances
• 1994 Les Miserables, opens at Hiten Theatre, Osaka
• 1993 Pittsburgh Penguins win their NHL record 17 game winning streak.
• 1992 Floriade (Flower Show) opens at the Hague, Netherlands.
• 1991 Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138
• 1990 CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma, Japan.
• 1989 10th Emmy Sports Award presentation
• 1988 8th Golden Raspberry Awards: Leonard Part 6 wins.
• 1986 Big Deal opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 70 performances
• 1985 Caps 4-Isles 3 (OT) - Patrick Division Semifinals - Caps hold 1-0 lead
• 1984 Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
• 1983 Caps 3-Isles 6 - Patrick Division Semifinals - Isles win series 3-2
• 1982 LA Kings losing 5-0 to Edmonton in 3rd period, win in OT 6-5
• 1981 Caveman with Ringo premieres
• 1980 Samuel Kanyon Doe takes over Liberia in a ''coup d'état'', ending over 130 years of democratic presidential succession in that country.
• 1979 J R Richard throws major league record six wild pitches in Astrodome.
• 1978 Formation of the Major Indoor Soccer League is announced.
• 1977 Cleveland Indians set club record for longest, 9 inning game (3:17).
• 1976 Cleveland Cavaliers win their first NBA Central Division title.
• 1975 Rangers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
• 1974 American Boccaccio Association forms
• 1973 BEA flight to Basel Switz, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143
• 1972 7.0 earthquake kills 1 / 5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
• 1971 US table tennis team arrives in China PR
• 1970 An avalanche at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the French Alps kills 74, mostly young boys.
• 1968 George M! opens at Palace Theater NYC for 435 performances
• 1967 39th Academy Awards - Man For All Seasons, Elizabeth Taylor and P Scofield win.
• 1964 Demolition begins on Polo Grounds to clear way for housing project
• 1963 Thresher, US atomic-powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Boston
• 1962 New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle hits his 375th homerun.
• 1961 Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel
• 1960 US Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill.
• 1959 Japanese Prince Akihito marries Shōda Michiko.
• 1958 Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco.
• 1957 Jordanian government of Naboelsi resigns.
• 1956 Philips broadcasts first Dutch color TV programs.
• 1955 Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely
• 1954 KRGV TV channel 5 in Weslaco, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1953 House of Wax, first 3-D movie, is released (New York City, New York).
• 1949 13th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 282.
• 1948 Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek.
• 1947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball (Dodgers)
• 1946 In Japan, women vote for the first time, during elections for the House of Representatives of the 90th Imperial Diet.
• 1945 Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech)
• 1944 Patrolling the Ether is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously
• 1942 Cigarettes and candy rationed in Holland.
• 1941 In Washington, USA, a treaty is signed with the Danish government for the US to take over protection of Greenland.
• 1940 Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian national government
• 1939 Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania
• 1938 2nd government of Blum replaced by Daladier government in France
• 1936 200 mirror blank arrives in Pasadena
• 1932 Paul von Hindenburg elected 1st German President (Hitler is 2nd)
• 1930 George Headley scores 223 in cricket versus England at Kingston.
• 1928 quotPineapple Primaryquot: The U.S. Republican Party primary elections in Chicago are preceded by assassinations and bombings.
• 1925 Czarina re-christened Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
• 1924 Tubular steel golf club shafts approved for championship play.
• 1923 Hitler demands hatred & more hatred in Berlin
• 1922 The historic Genoa Conference commences in Genoa. The representatives of 34 countries convene to speak about monetary economics in the wake of World War I.
• 1919 Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
• 1917 Munition factory explosion at Eddystone Pennsylvania, kills 133 workers.
• 1913 President Woodrow Wilson throws out first ball, Senators beat New York Yankees 2-1.
• 1912 RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st and last voyage
• 1904 British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of The Law.
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• Evelyn Waugh

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• Dixie Carter

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• Larry Linville

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• Joan Barry

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• Jean Vander Pyl

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• Marjorie Main

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• Stuart Sutcliffe

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• Michael Curtiz

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• Nino Rota

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• Sam Kinison

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• Little Eva

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• Norbert Brainin

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• Chuck Willis

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• Patricia Collinge

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Top #1 songs in the USA

• 2018 Drake - God's Plan
• 2017 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You
• 2016 Rihanna Featuring Drake - Work
• 2015 Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk!
• 2014 Pharrell Williams - Happy
• 2013 Macklemore - Thrift Shop
• 2012 Fun. - We Are Young
• 2011 Katy Perry - E.T.
• 2010 Rihanna - Rude Boy
• 2009 Flo Rida - Right Round
• 2008 Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
• 2007 Akon - Don't Matter
• 2006 Daniel Powter - Bad Day
• 2005 50 Cent - Candy Shop
• 2004 Usher - Yeah!
• 2003 50 Cent - In Da Club
• 2002 Jennifer Lopez - Ain't It Funny
• 2001 Crazy Town - Butterfly
• 2000 Santana - Maria, Maria
• 1999 TLC - No Scrubs
• 1998 K-Ci & JoJo - All My Life
• 1997 Puff Daddy - Can't Nobody Hold Me Down
• 1996 Celine Dion - Because You Loved Me
• 1995 Madonna - Take A Bow
• 1994 R. Kelly - Bump N' Grind
• 1993 Snow - Informer
• 1992 Vanessa Williams - Save The Best For Last
• 1991 Gloria Estefan - Coming Out Of The Dark
• 1990 Taylor Dayne - Love Will Lead You Back
• 1989 Roxette - The Look
• 1988 Billy Ocean - Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car
• 1987 Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
• 1986 Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
• 1985 Phil Collins - One More Night
• 1984 Kenny Loggins - Footloose
• 1983 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
• 1982 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'N Roll
• 1981 Blondie - Rapture
• 1980 Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)
• 1979 Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
• 1978 Bee Gees - Night Fever
• 1977 ABBA - Dancing Queen
• 1976 Johnnie Taylor - Disco Lady
• 1975 Minnie Riperton - Lovin' You
• 1974 Blue Swede - Hooked On A Feeling
• 1973 Vicki Lawrence - The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
• 1972 America - A Horse With No Name
• 1971 The Temptations - Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
• 1970 Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
• 1969 Tommy Roe - Dizzy
• 1968 Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
• 1967 The Turtles - Happy Together
• 1966 The Righteous Brothers - (You're My) Soul And Inspiration
• 1965 Freddie and the Dreamers - I'm Telling You Now
• 1964 The Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love
• 1963 The Chiffons - He's So Fine
• 1962 Shelley Fabares - Johnny Angel
• 1961 The Marcels - Blue Moon
• 1960 Percy Faith - The Theme From A Summer Place
• 1959 Frankie Avalon - Venus
• 1958 The Champs - Tequila
• 1957 Andy Williams - Butterfly
• 1955 Bill Hayes - The Ballad Of Davy Crockett
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Top #1 Rock songs

• 2017 Imagine Dragons - Believer
• 2016 twenty one pilots - Stressed Out
• 2015 Hozier - Take Me To Church
• 2014 Bastille - Pompeii
• 2013 Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
• 2012 Gotye Featuring Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know
• 2011 Foo Fighters - Rope
• 2010 Alice In Chains - Your Decision