Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 10

This is a list of selected April 10 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  General Emiliano Zapata
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  Big Ben
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  Second Bank of the United States
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  Lech Kaczyński
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  A poster supporting the Good Friday Agreement
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  Big Ben in 1858
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  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  General Emiliano Zapata

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Blurb	Reason
Siblings Day in the United States	citation needed tags
1816 – President James Madison signed the charter establishing the Second Bank of the United States as the nation's second national bank.	refimprove section
1868 – A British military expedition to Abyssinia culminated in a rout of the Ethiopian Empire and the later suicide of Emperor Tewodros II.	refimprove section
1959 – Crown Prince Akihito, the future Emperor of Japan, wedded Michiko, the first commoner to marry into the Japanese Imperial Family.	refimprove section
1968 – In the best-known maritime disaster in New Zealand's history, the inter-island ferry TEV Wahine capsized outside Wellington harbour, killing 53 of the 733 people on board.	refimprove section
1971 – In an attempt to thaw Sino-American relations, members of the American table tennis team entered the People's Republic of China for a weeklong visit.	needs more footnotes, lead too short
1998 – Ireland and the United Kingdom signed the Good Friday Agreement, a major step in the Northern Ireland peace process.	refimprove sections
2009 – Fijian President Ratu Josefa Iloilo announced that he had suspended the constitution and assumed all governance in the country after it was ruled that the government of Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama was illegal.	outdated
2010 – A Tupolev Tu-154M aircraft carrying President Lech Kaczyński and other Polish officials crashed while attempting to land in heavy fog at Smolensk-North air base, Russia, killing all 96 on board.	unreferenced section
Dolores Huerta |b|1930	citation needed tags (8)
* 1826 – Greek War of Independence: Inhabitants of the Greek town of Missolonghi attempted to escape a year-long siege, but were caught and killed by Ottoman forces.	Many citations needed tags

Eligible

• 1221 — A Mongol army commanded by Tolui captured the city of Merv in present-day Turkmenistan, allegedly killing more than 1.7 million people.
• 1724 Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66, his first cantata composed for Easter in Leipzig.
• 1741 – War of the Austrian Succession: Prussian forces defeated Austrian troops at the Battle of Mollwitz in present-day Małujowice, Poland, cementing Frederick II's authority over the newly conquered territory of Silesia.
• 1815 – Mount Tambora in Indonesia began the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history, killing at least 71,000 people and affecting temperatures worldwide.
• 1858 – Big Ben, the bell in the Palace of Westminster's clock tower in London, was cast after the original bell cracked during testing.
• 1919 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata (pictured) was shot to death near Ciudad Ayala, Morelos.
• 1944 – The Holocaust: Slovak Jewish prisoners Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz, later publishing a report that became one of the earliest and most detailed descriptions of the camp's mass killings.
• 1963 – The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS Thresher (SSN-593) sank with all hands lost during deep-diving tests in the North Atlantic Ocean.
• 1992 – First Nagorno-Karabakh War: Dozens of Armenian civilians were massacred in the village of Maraga by Azerbaijani forces.
• Born/died: | Michael Tarchaniota Marullus |d|1500| Thomas Jones |d|1619| Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg |d|1704| Samuel Hahnemann |b|1755| Giovanni Aldini |b|1762| Kishori Amonkar |b|1932| Carol V. Robinson |b|1956| Carole Goble |b|1961| Stu Sutcliffe |d|1962| Evelyn Waugh |d|1966

April 10: Eid al-Fitr (Islam, 2024)

M87* imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope

• 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition began with the Austrian invasion of Bavaria, then a client state of France.
• 1925 – The novel The Great Gatsby by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published by Scribner's.
• 1970 – In the midst of business disagreements with his bandmates, Paul McCartney announced his departure from the Beatles.
• 1973 – In the deadliest aviation accident in Swiss history, Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashed into a hillside near Hochwald, killing 108 people of 145 on board.
• 2019 – Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project released the first image of a black hole (depicted), located at the center of the galaxy M87.

• Gabrielle d'Estrées (d. 1599)
• Lew Wallace (b. 1827)
• Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri (b. 1917)

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