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Events on April 10

• 1896 At the Olympic Summer Games, Spyridon Louis wins the Olympic marathon ahead of his compatriot Charilaos Vasilakos and the Hungarian Gyula Kellner – the first Olympic marathon in the history of athletics.
• 1912 At Southampton, the first leg of the maiden voyage of the White Star Line ship Titanic begins under Captain Edward John Smith, heading for Cherbourg. It will never reach its final destination, New York.
• 1932 In the second round of the Reich presidential election, the incumbent Paul von Hindenburg receives an absolute majority and is thus reelected as Reich President. Adolf Hitler receives more than one third, while the communist candidate Ernst Thälmann receives around 10 percent of the votes cast.
• 1933 A Reich law enacted by the National Socialists declares the reintroduced May Day holiday in Germany a holiday of national labor.
• 1945 In heavy Allied air raids on Plauen, 75 percent of the city is destroyed, and around 900 people are killed.
• 1970 Paul McCartney sends advance copies of his first solo album McCartney to the British press and at the same time announces his split from the Beatles.
• 1978 Volkswagen AG opens an assembly plant in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in the United States as the first foreign automobile manufacturer, with the plant producing the Rabbit model from supplied parts.
• 1991 In Eisenach, Thuringia, the last Wartburg comes off the assembly line. Passenger cars of the brand had been produced by the Eisenach automobile plant since 1956.
• 1998 In Belfast, eight Northern Irish parties as well as the governments of Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland sign the Good Friday Agreement, which is intended to end the civil war.
• 2000 Angela Merkel is elected Federal Chair of the CDU at the CDU federal party convention in Essen. Ruprecht Polenz becomes Secretary General.
• 2010 In the crash of the Polish government aircraft near the Russian city of Smolensk, 96 people are killed, including President Lech Kaczyński and other high-ranking representatives of Poland.
• 2019 The Event Horizon Telescope project succeeds for the first time in producing a direct image of the accretion disk of a black hole (Messier 87).

Born on April 10

• 1864 Eugen d’Albert, German composer and pianist
• 1877 Alfred Kubin, Austrian graphic artist and book illustrator
• 1880 Frances Perkins, American politician
• 1924 Wolfgang Menge, German screenwriter and journalist
• 1952 Steven Seagal, American actor
• 1960 Katrina Leskanich, American singer
• 1971 Markus Koch, German journalist
• 1980 Charlie Hunnam, British actor
• 1990 Florian Hempel, German darts and handball player
• 2001 Angelina Mango, Italian pop singer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „10. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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