April 10

Birthdays:

2007~ Princess Ariane of the Netherlands.

1988~ Haley Joel Osment, American actor.

1959~ Brian Robert Setzer, American musician and frontman for the Stray Cats.

1954~ Anne Lamott, American author and political activist.

1954~ Peter MacNicol, American actor.

1938~ Don Meredith (né Joseph Don Meredith, d. Dec. 5, 2010), American football quarterback who lit up the broadcast booth.  His nickname was “Dandy Don.”  He died at age 72 of a brain hemorrhage.

1934~ David Halberstam (d. Apr. 23, 2007), American journalist and author. He was killed in a car accident 13 days before his 73^rdbirthday.

1932~ Blaze Starr (née Fannie Belle Fleming, d. June 15, 2015), American burlesque star and stripper who had a long affair with Louisiana Governor Earl K. Long.  She was known as the “Hottest Blaze in Burlesque”.  She was 83 years old.

1932~ Omar Sharif (néMichel Dimitri Chalhoub, d. July 10, 2015), Egyptian actor and playboy who excelled in exotic roles.  He was best known for his role as Dr. Zhivago in the movie of the same name and for his role in Lawrence of Arabia. He died of a heart attack at age 83.

1929~ Max von Sydow (néCarl Adolf von Sydow), Swedish actor.

1927~ Marshall Warren Nirenberg (d. Jan. 15, 2010), American biochemist and recipient of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for breaking the genetic code.  He died at age 82.

1927~ Joan Quigley (d. Oct. 23, 2014), American astrologer who guided First Lady Nancy Reagan.  She died at age 87.

1926~ Gustav Metzger (d. Mar. 1, 2017), German artist who made a career out of destruction.  He died at age 90.

1921~ Chuck Connors (néKevin Joseph Connors, d. Nov. 10, 1992), American baseball player and actor. He is best known for his role in the television western, The Rifleman.  He died of lung cancer at age 71.

1919~ John Cornelius Houbolt (d. Apr. 15, 2014), American engineer who helped NASA reach the moon.  He died of Parkinson’s disease in Scarborough, Maine 5 days after his 95^thbirthday.

1917~ Robert Burns Woodward (d. July 8, 1979), American chemist and recipient of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.  He was born and died in Boston, Massachusetts.  He died of a heart attack at age 62.

1915~ Harry Morgan (néHarry Bratsberg, d. Dec. 7, 2011), American actor best known for his role as Col. Sherman Potter on the television sit-com M*A*S*H.  He died at age 96.

1910~ Yosef Shalom Eliashiv (d. July 18, 2012), Lithuanian-Israeli Haredi rabbi.  He died at age 102.

1903~ Clare Turlay Newberry (d. Feb. 12, 1970), American children’s author and illustrator.  She died at age 66.

1887~ Bernardo Alberto Houssay (d. Sept. 21, 1971), Argentine physiologist and recipient of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the role of the pituitary homes in regulating blood sugar levels. He died at age 84.

1880~ Frances Perkins (née Fannie Coralie Perkins, b. May 14, 1965), first woman to be appointed to a U.S. cabinet position when she was appointed as the 4^thUnited States Secretary of Labor.  She served under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman from March 1933 through June 1945.  She was born in Boston, Massachusetts.  She died at age 85.

1847~ Joseph Pulitzer (né József Pulitzer, d. Oct. 29, 1911), Hungarian-American publisher.   He introduced the technique of yellow journalism, journalism with little well researched news.  He became and American citizen and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York State.  He died at age 64.

1829~ William Booth (d. Aug. 20, 1912), English Methodist minister and founder of the Salvation Army.  He died at age 83.

1827~ Lew Wallace (néLewis Wallace, d. Feb. 15, 1905), American lawyer, General in the American Civil War, and novelist, who’s best known book was Ben-Hur.  He died at age 77.

1794~ Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (d. Mar. 4, 1858), Commodore of the US Navy.  He died of rheumatic fever at age 63.

1778~ William Hazlitt (d. Sept. 18, 1830), British writer, literary critic, social commentator and philosopher. He died at age 52.

1755~ Samuel Hahnemann (néChristian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann, d. July 2, 1843), German physician best known for creating an alternative form of medicine now known as homeopathy.  He died at age 88.

1651~ Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (d. Oct. 11, 1708), German mathematician.  He died at age 57.

1512~ King James V of Scotland (d. Dec. 14, 1542).  He died at age 30.

Events that Changed the World:

2017~ Passover began at sunset.

2017~ Neil Gorsuch (b. 1967) was sworn is as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1970~ Paul McCartney (b. 1942) announced that he was leaving the Beatlesfor personal reasons.

1963~ The nuclear submarine USS Threshersank off the coast of Massachusetts, killing 129 American sailors.  The submarine had begun its voyage from Bath, Maine.

1953~ Warner Brothers released the first 3-D movie, which was entitled House of Wax, starring Vincent Price.

1944~ Rudolf Vrba (1924 ~ 2006) and Alfréd Wetzler (1918 ~ 1988) escaped from the Birkenau concentration camp.  They reported what was going on in the camps.  Their report helped to end the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews to the concentration camps.

1925~ The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 ~ 1940) was first published.

1912~ The Titanicleft port in Southhampton, England on her first and only voyage.  It would hit an iceberg and sink 5 days later.

1866~ The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCAP was founded in New York City by Henry Bergh (1813 ~ 1888).

1816~ The United States government approved of the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.

1815~ The Mount Tambora volcano on an island in Indonesia, began its three-month long eruption, which lasted through July 15, 1815.  The volcano killed over 71,000 people and affected the Earth’s climate for over 2 years.

1710~ The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, became effective in Great Britain.

1606~ King James I of England (1566 ~ 1625) established the Virginia Company of London for the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.

Good-Byes:

2013~ Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards (b. Sept. 27, 1925), English physiologist and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.  He was a pioneer in vitrofertilization research who changed the rules of conception.  He died at age 87.

2010~ Lech Kaczynski (b. June 18, 1949), President of Poland.  He was killed in a plane crash in Russia.  He was 60 years old.

2010~ Dixie Carter (née Dixie Virginia Carter, b. May 25, 1939), American actress.  She died of endometrial cancer at age 70.

2003~ Snowflake (b. 1964), albino gorilla.  He was 39 years old.

1992~ Peter Dennis Mitchell (b. Sept. 29, 1920), English biochemist and recipient of the 1878 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of the chemiosmotic mechanism of the ATP synthesis. He died at age 71.

1974~ Walker Evans (b. Nov. 3, 1903), American photographer.  He died in New Haven, Connecticut at age 71.

1967~ Oscar Chisini (b. Mar. 4, 1889), Italian mathematician.  He died at age 78.

1966~ Evelyn Waugh (néArthur Evelyn St. John Waugh, b. Oct. 28, 1903), English writer.  He died of heart failure at age 62.

1962~ Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe (b. June 23, 1940), Scottish bass player who was briefly with the Beatles.  He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 21.

1954~ Auguste Lumière (né Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière, b. Oct. 19, 1862), French movie director.  He, along with his brother, Louis Jean Lumière (1864 ~ 1948), were considered to be the first filmmakesrs in history.  They patented the cinematograph.  Louis Jean died at age 83; Auguste was 91 at the time of his death.

1931~ Khalil Gibran (b. Jan. 6, 1883), Lebanese poet and painter.  He died at age 48.

1920~ Moritz Cantor (b. Aug. 23, 1829), German mathematician and historian.  He died at age 90.

1919~ Emiliano Zapata (néEmiliano Zapata Salazar, b. Aug. 8, 1879), Mexican general and revolutionary.  He was ambushed and killed by government forces.  He died at age 39.

1813~ Joseph-Louis Lagrange (né Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia, b. Jan. 25, 1736), Italian-born mathematician.  He died at age 77.

1585~ Pope Gregory XIII (né Ugo Boncompagni, b. Jan. 7, 1502).  He was Pope from May 1572 until his death 13 years later.  He died at age 83.

1533~ Frederick I of Denmark (b. Oct. 7, 1471).  He died at age 61.

1216~ Eric X of Sweden (b. 1180).  The exact date of his birth is unknown.

879~ Louis the Stammerer (b. Nov. 1, 846), Frankish King.  He died of an illness at age 32.