On this day, April 10
1912 The British liner RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, bound for New York on its ill-fated maiden voyage.
1932 German President Paul Von Hindenburg was re-elected in a runoff, with Adolf Hitler coming in second.
1947 Team President Branch Rickey called Jackie Robinson up to the Brooklyn Dodgers from their minor league affiliate the Montreal Royals. (Less than a week later, Robinson would become the first Black player in Major League Baseball when he took the field for the Dodgers.)
1963 The fast-attack nuclear submarine USS Thresher (SSN-593) sank during deep-diving tests east of Cape Cod, Mass., in a disaster that claimed 129 lives.
1971 A table tennis team from the United States arrived in China at the invitation of the communist government for a goodwill visit that came to be known as “ping-pong diplomacy.”
1972 The United States and the Soviet Union joined some 70 nations in signing an agreement banning biological warfare.
1974 Golda Meir announced her resignation as prime minister of Israel.
1998 The Northern Ireland peace talks concluded as negotiators reached a landmark settlement to end 30 years of bitter rivalries and bloody attacks.
2010 Polish President Lech Kaczynski, 60, was killed in a plane crash in western Russia that also claimed the lives of his wife and top Polish political, military and church officials.
2012 Rick Santorum quit the presidential race, clearing the way for Mitt Romney to claim the Republican nomination.
2017 Justice Neil Gorsuch took his place as the newest addition on the bench of the Supreme Court, restoring a narrow conservative majority.
2021 Speaking to Republican donors at his new home inside his Mar-a-Lago resort, former President Donald Trump slammed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as a “stone-cold loser” and mocked McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, who had been Trump’s transportation secretary.
Today’s birthdays: Actor Steven Seagal, 72. Folk-pop singer Terre Roche (The Roches), 71. Actor Peter MacNicol, 70. Actor Olivia Brown, 67. Singer-producer Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, 66. Rock singer-musician Brian Setzer, 65. Olympic gold medal speedskater Cathy Turner, 62. Actor-comedian Orlando Jones, 56. Actor David Harbour, 49. Blues singer Shemekia Copeland, 45. Actor Laura Bell Bundy, 43. Actor Harry Hadden-Paton, 43. Actor Chyler Leigh, 42. Actor Ryan Merriman, 41. Singer Mandy Moore, 40. Actor Shay Mitchell, 37. Actor Haley Joel Osment, 36.