1633 Early 15th century Portuguese explorers discovered bananas in Western Africa and took them to the Canary Islands. The word “banana” is the native word for the fruit in Guinea. In 1516, Friar Tomas sailed to the Caribbean bringing banana roots with him; and planted bananas there, thus beginning the banana's future in American life. When bananas went on display in fruitier Thomas Johnson's London shop on April 10, 1633, it was the first time the fruit had been seen in Britain.
1710 The Statute of Anne, the first fully-fledged law regulating copyright, entered into force in Great Britain on April 10, 1710. Consisting of 11 sections, the Statute of Anne is formally titled "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of Copies, during the Times therein mentioned."
1741 The War of Austrian Succession began on December 16, 1740, when the Prussian king Frederick the Great invaded and quickly occupied Silesia. The first real battle Frederick faced in Silesia was the Battle of Mollwitz on April 10, 1741. Under the impression the battle was lost, Frederick panicked and left the field early. In actual fact, the Prussians had won the battle at the very moment that Frederick had fled. The Prussian king would later state: "Mollwitz was my school.”
1755 German doctor Samuel Hahnemann, was born on April 10, 1755. After testing various substances especially herbal remedies, Hahnemann concluded that a drug, which produces symptoms of a particular illness in a healthy person, would cure a sick person who is suffering from the said affliction. This would only work, however if that drug was dispensed in particularly small doses. Hahnemann began practicing his new method of medicine, called homeopathy, in 1796.
1710 The Statute of Anne, the first fully-fledged law regulating copyright, entered into force in Great Britain on April 10, 1710. Consisting of 11 sections, the Statute of Anne is formally titled "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of Copies, during the Times therein mentioned."
1741 The War of Austrian Succession began on December 16, 1740, when the Prussian king Frederick the Great invaded and quickly occupied Silesia. The first real battle Frederick faced in Silesia was the Battle of Mollwitz on April 10, 1741. Under the impression the battle was lost, Frederick panicked and left the field early. In actual fact, the Prussians had won the battle at the very moment that Frederick had fled. The Prussian king would later state: "Mollwitz was my school.”
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| Prussian Army during battle of Mollwitz 1741 |
1755 German doctor Samuel Hahnemann, was born on April 10, 1755. After testing various substances especially herbal remedies, Hahnemann concluded that a drug, which produces symptoms of a particular illness in a healthy person, would cure a sick person who is suffering from the said affliction. This would only work, however if that drug was dispensed in particularly small doses. Hahnemann began practicing his new method of medicine, called homeopathy, in 1796.
1790 The Patent Act of 1790, signed into law by President George Washington on April 10, 1790, established the first patent system in United States history. The law created the first patent office in the United States, and it set the terms for how patents would be granted.
1806 As a young soldier, Arthur Wellesley fell for the charms of Catherine "Kitty" Pakenham, the daughter of a minor Irish peer. 14 years later after returning back to Britain in triumph from a series of military victories in India, he successfully proposed to her. The couple were married on April 10, 1806 by Wellesley's clergyman brother Gerald. Wellesley found Kitty plain and unintelligent and they spent little time together. Though they had two sons, the pair retained separate bedrooms.
1810 On April 10, 1810, Percy Shelley went to the University of Oxford (University College). Legend has it that he attended only one lecture at Oxford but frequently read for sixteen hours a day The following year, Shelley was sent down after sending a radical anti-religious pamphlet, The Necessity of Atheism, to the heads of the colleges.
1815 Mount Tambora in Indonesia began one of the most violent volcanic eruptions in recorded history on April 10, 1815, killing at least 71,000 people. The eruption sent huge plumes of ash, gas, and debris into the atmosphere, which caused global climate anomalies and led to a "year without a summer" in many parts of the world in 1816.
1829 William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, was born on April 10, 1829. He was the only son of four surviving children born to Samuel Booth and Mary Moss in Sneinton, Nottingham, England. A "careless" lad up to the age of 15, after a bad illness, Booth's spirit became awakened and he joined a Wesleyan chapel. Inspired by a hellfire preacher from USA, he was converted to Methodism. Training himself in writing and in speech, he became a Methodist lay preacher.
1849 The safety pin was patented on April 10, 1849 by a mechanic Walter Hunt in New York. He sold the patent rights for $400 to W. R. Grace and Company. Hunt called it a "dress pin" and is said to have invented it to pay off a $15 debt. Six months later, Birmingham inventor Charles Rowley patented a safety pin in Britain, unaware that Walter Hunt had registered a similar version in America six months earlier. Hunt’s is the one we use today.
1858 Big Ben, the bell in the Palace of Westminster's clock tower in London, was cast on April 10, 1858 by Whitechapel Bell Foundry after the original bell had cracked during testing. The 30,300 lb (13.76 tonne) bell is known as ‘Big Ben’ after Benjamin Hall, First Commissioner of Works at the time. The Whitechapel Bell Foundry company, which was established in 1570, also casted Philadelphia's Liberty Bell.
1868 Johannes Brahms’ German Requiem was premiered in Bremen Cathedral on Good Friday, April 10, 1868. The majority of Brahms' Requiem was written after his mother's death in 1865, a loss that caused him much grief. The Requiem proved a triumphant success following its first performance and was soon performed in concert by massed choirs and mighty orchestras. It marked a turning point in Brahms' career placing him among Europe's leading composers.
1894 The fifth child of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, Archibald Bulloch "Archie" Roosevelt born on April 10, 1894. Archie Roosevelt was a distinguished U.S. Army officer and commander of U.S. forces in both World War I and II. After World War II, he became a successful businessman and the founder of a New York City bond brokerage house, as well as a spokesman for conservative political causes.
1912 Titanic's maiden voyage began at noon on Wednesday, April 10, 1912 when the liner left Southampton on the south coast of England. It called at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland before heading west to New York.
1806 As a young soldier, Arthur Wellesley fell for the charms of Catherine "Kitty" Pakenham, the daughter of a minor Irish peer. 14 years later after returning back to Britain in triumph from a series of military victories in India, he successfully proposed to her. The couple were married on April 10, 1806 by Wellesley's clergyman brother Gerald. Wellesley found Kitty plain and unintelligent and they spent little time together. Though they had two sons, the pair retained separate bedrooms.
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| Kitty Pakenham |
1815 Mount Tambora in Indonesia began one of the most violent volcanic eruptions in recorded history on April 10, 1815, killing at least 71,000 people. The eruption sent huge plumes of ash, gas, and debris into the atmosphere, which caused global climate anomalies and led to a "year without a summer" in many parts of the world in 1816.
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| The floor of the caldera of Mount Tambora By Georesearch Volcanedo Germany |
1829 William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, was born on April 10, 1829. He was the only son of four surviving children born to Samuel Booth and Mary Moss in Sneinton, Nottingham, England. A "careless" lad up to the age of 15, after a bad illness, Booth's spirit became awakened and he joined a Wesleyan chapel. Inspired by a hellfire preacher from USA, he was converted to Methodism. Training himself in writing and in speech, he became a Methodist lay preacher.
1849 The safety pin was patented on April 10, 1849 by a mechanic Walter Hunt in New York. He sold the patent rights for $400 to W. R. Grace and Company. Hunt called it a "dress pin" and is said to have invented it to pay off a $15 debt. Six months later, Birmingham inventor Charles Rowley patented a safety pin in Britain, unaware that Walter Hunt had registered a similar version in America six months earlier. Hunt’s is the one we use today.
1858 Big Ben, the bell in the Palace of Westminster's clock tower in London, was cast on April 10, 1858 by Whitechapel Bell Foundry after the original bell had cracked during testing. The 30,300 lb (13.76 tonne) bell is known as ‘Big Ben’ after Benjamin Hall, First Commissioner of Works at the time. The Whitechapel Bell Foundry company, which was established in 1570, also casted Philadelphia's Liberty Bell.
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| The second "Big Ben" (centre) and the Quarter Bells from The Illustrated News of the World, |
1868 Johannes Brahms’ German Requiem was premiered in Bremen Cathedral on Good Friday, April 10, 1868. The majority of Brahms' Requiem was written after his mother's death in 1865, a loss that caused him much grief. The Requiem proved a triumphant success following its first performance and was soon performed in concert by massed choirs and mighty orchestras. It marked a turning point in Brahms' career placing him among Europe's leading composers.
1894 The fifth child of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, Archibald Bulloch "Archie" Roosevelt born on April 10, 1894. Archie Roosevelt was a distinguished U.S. Army officer and commander of U.S. forces in both World War I and II. After World War II, he became a successful businessman and the founder of a New York City bond brokerage house, as well as a spokesman for conservative political causes.
1912 Titanic's maiden voyage began at noon on Wednesday, April 10, 1912 when the liner left Southampton on the south coast of England. It called at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland before heading west to New York.
1919 On April 10, 1919 Emiliano Zapata, the leader during the Mexican Revolution, was shot to death in Morelos, Mexico by government forces. Zapata's death was a significant blow to the revolutionary movement, and it led to a period of internal conflict among the various factions vying for power in post-revolutionary Mexico.
1925 F Scott Fitzgerald began planning The Great Gatsby in 1923, inspired by the parties he had attended while visiting Long Island's north shore. Originally he was going to call it "Incident at West Egg.” It was first published in New York City on April 10, 1925. Reviews were poor and The Great Gatsby was a commercial failure upon its release. The first printing sold slightly more than 20,000 — just enough to repay publisher Scribners.
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| Cover of the first edition in 1925 |
1941 The Independent State of Croatia was founded on April 10, 1941 during World War II. The fascist Ustaše leader Ante Pavelić was appointed head of the government, which was a puppet of the Axis powers. The state consisted of most of modern-day Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, together with some parts of modern-day Serbia.
1959 Crown Prince Akihito, the future Emperor of Japan, wedded Michiko at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on April 10, 1959. She was the first commoner to marry into the Japanese Imperial Family. The marriage was seen as a symbol of modernization and democratization in Japan, and Michiko was widely admired for her intelligence, grace, and style.
1992 James Watson is best known as the molecular biologist who co-discovered the double helix structure of DNA. Between 1988 until April 10, 1992, Watson was associated with the National Institutes of Health, where he helped establish the Human Genome Project, an international scientific research project with the goal of mapping out the total genes of the human genome from both a physical and functional standpoint.
2010 At the age of 96 years and 222 days, South African Mohr Keet achieved the record for the oldest bungee jumper. Retired farmer Keet jumped off the 216 meters (708 feet) high Bloukrans Bridge in South Africa on April 10, 2010.
2011 The world record for the largest collection of rubber ducks is held by Charlotte Lee of Seattle, Washington, who had 5,631 of them as at April 10, 2011. Charlotte's collection is so large that it takes up an entire room in her house. She has even had to build special shelves to display them all.
2019 The supermassive black hole inside the core of the supergiant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 in the constellation Virgo was the first one ever to be directly imaged. A photo was released on April 10, 2019 (see below). The black hole was imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network of telescopes around the world that work together to create a virtual telescope the size of the Earth.
2011 The world record for the largest collection of rubber ducks is held by Charlotte Lee of Seattle, Washington, who had 5,631 of them as at April 10, 2011. Charlotte's collection is so large that it takes up an entire room in her house. She has even had to build special shelves to display them all.
2019 The supermassive black hole inside the core of the supergiant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 in the constellation Virgo was the first one ever to be directly imaged. A photo was released on April 10, 2019 (see below). The black hole was imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network of telescopes around the world that work together to create a virtual telescope the size of the Earth.
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| By Event Horizon Telescope - https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205, |
2021 Rachael Blackmore made history by becoming the first female jockey to win the Grand National, one of the most prestigious horse racing events in the world. She rode Minella Times to victory at the 173rd Grand National, which took place on April 10, 2021, at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, England.
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