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Events from History on April 10

1986 : "Big Deal" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 70 performances
1981 : "Caveman" with Ringo premieres
1995 : "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 24 perfs
1968 : "George M!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 435 performances
1953 : "House of Wax," 1st 3-D movie, released (NYC)
1994 : "Les Miserables," opens at Hiten Theatre, Osaka
1944 : "Patrolling the Ether" is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously
1989 : 10th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1943 : 12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape nazis
1946 : 1st election for Japanese Diet
1516 : 1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice
1825 : 1st hotel in Hawaii opens
1877 : 1st human cannonball act performed in London
1872 : 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans
1868 : 1st performance of John Brahms' "Ein german Requiem"
1936 : 200" mirror blank arrives in Pasadena
1989 : 24th Academy of Country Music Awards: Hank Williams Jr, Alabama
1992 : 25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka
1816 : 2nd Bank of US chartered
1938 : 2nd govt of Blum replaced by Daladier govt in France
1972 : 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
1961 : Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel
1945 : Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech)
1974 : American Boccaccio Association forms
1866 : American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms
1872 : Arbor day 1st celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22
1938 : Austria becomes a state of Germany
1815 : Austria declares war on realm of Naples
1864 : Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes emperor of Mexico
1983 : Baltimore's Eddie Murray hits his 1,000 career hit
1973 : BEA flight to Basel Switz, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143
1986 : Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan
1991 : Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138
1993 : BPAA US Open by Del Ballard Jr
1868 : Brits defeat King of Abyssinia at Magdala
1989 : buy tuna caught in nets that also trap dolphins
1878 : Calif St Cable Car RR Co starts service
1945 : Canadian troops conquer Deventer
1985 : Caps 4-Isles 3 (OT)-Patrick Div Semifinals-Caps hold 1-0 lead
1985 : Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-B mission
1942 : Cigarettes & candy rationed in Holland
1939 : Colijn's Dutch govt opens camp Westerbork for German Jews
1981 : Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded
1869 : Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9
1990 : CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma Japan
1925 : Czarina re-christened Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
1984 : Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
1964 : Demolition begins on Polo Grounds to clear way for housing project
1739 : Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing
1955 : Dr Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine
1694 : Duke Victor Amadeus of Savoye attacks Casale
1656 : Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo Ceylon
1961 : Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to JFK about New Guinea
1877 : Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia SC
1992 : Floriade (Flower Show) opens at Hague Neth
1978 : Formation of Major Indoor Soccer League announced
1500 : France captures duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan
1945 : General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland"
1943 : General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia
1930 : George Headley scores 223 v England at Kingston
1945 : German troops attack Ijsselbrug
1941 : German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica
1939 : Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania
1989 : H J Heinz, Van Camp Seafood & Bumble Bee Seafood say they would not
1552 : Henri II of France occupies Metz
1988 : Herschel Walker performs Fort Worth Ballet
1923 : Hitler demands "hatred & more hatred" in Berlin
1981 : Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to Brit Parliament
1989 : Intel corp announces shipment of 80-486 chip
1964 : Iranian motor launch catches fire & sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)
1988 : Islanders beat Devils 5-4 (OT) 1st round tied at 2-2
1979 : J R Richard throws major league record 6 wild pitches in Astrodome
1947 : Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball (Dodgers)
1959 : Japan's Crown Prince Akihito marries commoner Michiko Shoda
1948 : Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek
1957 : John Osborne's "Entertainer," premieres in London
1983 : Jordan king Hussein ceases negotiations with PLO
1957 : Jordanian govt of Naboelsi resigns
1973 : KC opens its new park, Royals Stadium, with 12-1 rout of Rangers
1947 : King Frederik IX of Denmark crowned
1954 : KRGV TV channel 5 in Weslaco, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1991 : Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd & 42nd St, NYC)
1974 : Magicians Penn & Teller 1st meet
1991 : Martin Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:52.51)
1882 : Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii)
1845 : More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa
1917 : Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers
1825 : Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Le¢n
1958 : Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco
1841 : NY "Tribune" begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley
1938 : NY makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license
1962 : NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits his 375th HR
1995 : NYC bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more
1973 : Pakistan suspends constitution
1932 : Paul von Hindenburg elected 1st German president (Hitler is 2nd)
1982 : Penguins 2-Isles 1 (OT)-Preliminary- Isles hold 2-1 lead
1956 : Philips broadcasts 1st Dutch color TV programs
1512 : Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen
1913 : Pres Woodrow Wilson throws out 1st ball, Senators beat Yankees 2-1
1887 : President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield Il
1741 : Prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz
1975 : Rangers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
1863 : Rebel Gen Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tenn
1912 : RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st & last voyage
1790 : Robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth
1955 : Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely
1849 : Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC); sold rights for $100
1925 : Scribners publishes "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald
1960 : Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
1887 : Soccer team Be Quick forms in Hairs Groningen
1944 : Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazis
1979 : Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian
1589 : Spanish troops conquer Geertruidenberg
1957 : Suez canal reopens for all traffic
1930 : Synthetic rubber 1st produced
1963 : Thresher, US atomic-powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Boston
1790 : US Patent system forms
1884 : US Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo
1984 : US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors
1971 : US table tennis team arrives in China PR
1945 : US troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa
1945 : US troops liberate Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany
1972 : US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons
1935 : Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London
1940 : Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian "national government"
1913 : Walter Johnson begins string of 56 consecutive scoreless innings
1871 : William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park accepted
1945 : William Schuman & Antony Tudors ballet premieres in NYC
1974 : Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli PM Golda Meir

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