10 April
Notable Births
Ismaël Gharbi
b. 2004
Footballer (born 2004)
Fidias Panayiotou
b. 2000
Greek-Cypriot YouTuber and politician (born 2000)
Claire Wineland
b. 1997
American activist and author (1997–2018)
Andreas Christensen
b. 1996
Danish footballer (born 1996)
Siobhan Hunter
b. 1994
Scottish footballer (born 1994)
Daisy Ridley
b. 1992
English actress (born 1992)
Jack Buchanan (rugby league)
b. 1992
Australian rugby league footballer
Chaz Mostert
b. 1992
Australian racing driver (born 1992)
Ben Amos
b. 1990
English footballer (born 1990)
Alex Pettyfer
b. 1990
English actor and model (born 1990)
Charlie Culberson
b. 1989
American baseball player (born 1989)
Chris Heston
b. 1988
American baseball player (born 1988)
Kareem Jackson
b. 1988
American football player (born 1988)
Haley Joel Osment
b. 1988
American actor (born 1988)
Ahmed Adel Abdel Moneam
b. 1987
Egyptian footballer (born 1987)
Hayley Westenra
b. 1987
New Zealand singer (born 1987)
Olivia Borlée
b. 1986
Belgian sprinter
Fernando Gago
b. 1986
Argentine footballer and manager
Corey Kluber
b. 1986
American baseball player (born 1986)
Vincent Kompany
b. 1986
Belgian football manager (born 1986)
Notable Deaths
Leo Beenhakker
d. 2025
Dutch football coach (1942–2025)
Ted Kotcheff
d. 2025
Canadian film and television director (1931–2025)
Peter Lovesey
d. 2025
British writer (1936–2025)
O. J. Simpson
d. 2024
American football player and actor (1947–2024)
Al Jaffee
d. 2023
American cartoonist (1921–2023)
Howard Marks
d. 2016
Welsh author and drug smuggler (1945–2016)
Richie Benaud
d. 2015
Australian cricketer and commentator (1930–2015)
Rose Francine Rogombé
d. 2015
Gabonese politician (1942–2015)
Peter Walsh (Australian politician)
d. 2015
Australian politician
Robert Edwards (physiologist)
d. 2013
English physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine (1925–2013)
Gordon Thomas (cyclist)
d. 2013
British cyclist
Raymond Aubrac
d. 2012
Member of the French Resistance in World War II (1914–2012)
Barbara Buchholz
d. 2012
German composer and theremin player
Lili Chookasian
d. 2012
Opera singer
Luis Aponte Martínez
d. 2012
Puerto Rican Catholic cardinal
Ryszard Kaczorowski
d. 2010
Polish politician (1919–2010)
Maria Kaczyńska
d. 2010
First Lady of Poland (1942-2010)
Lech Kaczyński
d. 2010
President of Poland from 2005 to 2010
Anna Walentynowicz
d. 2010
Polish free trade union activist
Dixie Carter
d. 2010
American actress (1939–2010)
On This Day in History
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2023
A mass shooting occurs at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, that leaves five victims dead and eight wounded.
2023 Louisville bank shooting
2016
The Paravur temple accident, in which a devastating fire caused by the explosion of firecrackers stored for Vishu kills more than one hundred people out of the thousands gathered for the seventh day of Bhadrakali worship.
Puttingal temple fire
2016
An earthquake of 6.6 magnitude strikes 39 km west-southwest of Ashkasham, impacting India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Srinagar and Pakistan.
2016 Afghanistan earthquake
2010
Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and dozens of other senior officials and dignitaries.
Polish Air Force
2009
President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces the abrogation of the constitution and assumes all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
President of Fiji
1998
The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Northern Ireland.
Good Friday Agreement
1991
Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy, killing 140.
Moby Prince disaster
1991
A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola, the first to be documented by satellites.
South Atlantic tropical cyclone
1988
The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan.
Ojhri Camp disaster
1981
Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands is elected to Westminster as the MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He died twenty-six days later.
Provisional Irish Republican Army
1979
Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas, killing 42 people.
1979 Red River Valley tornado outbreak
1973
Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashes in a snowstorm on approach to Basel, Switzerland, killing 108 people.
Invicta International Airlines Flight 435
1972
Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
Yinqueshan Han Tombs Bamboo Slips Museum
1972
Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
Vietnam War
1970
Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
Paul McCartney
1968
The TEV Wahine, a New Zealand ferry, sinks in Wellington harbour due to a fierce storm – the strongest winds ever in Wellington. Out of the 734 people on board, fifty-three died.
TEV Wahine
1963
One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
Submarine
1944
Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp.
Rudolf Vrba
1941
World War II: The Axis powers establish the Independent State of Croatia.
World War II
1925
The Russian city of Tsaritsyn is renamed Stalingrad to honor the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Soviet Communist Party General Secretary, who had guided the defense of Tsaritsyn during the Russian Civil War in 1920.
Volgograd