April 10-Birthday of Prophet Mohammed

April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years). There are 265 days remaining.


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1979-20h 34min Moscow time.The soviet spaceship "Sayuz-33" has been launched in to space.On board were the first bulgarian cosmonaft Georgi Ivanov and the commander Nikolai Rukavishnikov.Because of technical problems the ship was forced to land two days later and was unable to finish the mission.But nomatter of that Bulgaria became the sixth country who had man in space

                                                  

                                                          Georgi Ivanov

1930-The production of sintetic rubber starts.

1914-In front of diplomatic courp in Kroguevatz in Macedonia 2200 bulgarian conscripts refused to join sercian army and for that 220 were shot      

1790    The U.S. patent system is established.

1809    Austria declares war on France and her forces enter Bavaria.

1862    Union forces begin the bombardment of Fort Pulaski in Georgia along the Tybee River.

1865    At Appomattox Court, Va, General Robert E. Lee issues his last orders to the Army of Northern Virginia.

1866    The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is formed.

1902    South African Boers accept British terms of surrender.

1912    The Titanic begins her maiden voyage which will end in disaster.

1925    F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.

1930    The first synthetic rubber is produced.

1932    Paul von Hindenburg is elected president in Germany.

1938    Germany annexes Austria.

1941    U.S. troops occupy Greenland to prevent Nazi infiltration.

1945    In their second attempt to take the Seelow Heights, near Berlin, the Red Army launches numerous attacks against the defending Germans. The Soviets gain one mile at the cost of 3,000 men killed and 368 tanks destroyed.

1945    Allied troops liberate the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald north of Weiner, Germany.

1947    Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play major league baseball as he takes the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1953    House of Wax, the first 3-D movie, is released.

1971    The American table tennis team arrives in China.

1974    Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir.

1981    Imprisoned Irish Republican Army hunger striker Bobby Sands is elected to the British Parliament.

Born on April 10

1583    Hugo Grotius, Dutch statesman and scholar.
1794    Matthew C. Perry, American naval officer, opened Japan to trade with the west.
1827    Lew Wallace, Civil War general, lawyer, diplomat and author of Ben Hur.
1867    A.E. (George William Russell), Irish poet and mystic.
1880    Frances Perkins, U.S. labor secretary, first female cabinet member.
1903    Clare Boothe Luce, reporter, U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
1917    Robert B. Woodward, synthetic chemist.
1934    David Halberstam, New York Times correspondent, author, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1964.
1932    Omar Sharif (Michael Shalhoub), actor (Dr. Zhivago).
1941    Paul Theroux, author (The Great Railway Bazaar).

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