History at a glance

TODAY is Sunday April 10 the 100th day of the year. There are 265 days left in the year.

Highlights in history on this date:

1919 – Mexican government troops ambushed and killed revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata.

1932 – German Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg received 19 million votes in presidential elections, beating Adolf Hitler’s 13 million.

1953 – Warner Bros. premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax. 1957 – The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.

1971 – Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People’s Republic

of China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit.

1972 – Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin

bombing North Vietnam.

1987 – Pope John Paul II attends open-air mass at Velez Sarsfield soccer stadium in Argentina.

1998 – Northern Ireland peace deal reached (Good Friday Agreement).

1991 – Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140. 1995 – Sotheby’s in New York auctions diamond rings worth millions of dollars.

2002 – Palestinian suicide bomber kills at least eight people when bomb explodes on a bus in Haifa, Israel. 2003 – British Airways and Air France announced they would mothball their fuel-guzzling Concorde fleets at

the end of October, ending 27 years of supersonic commercial air travel.

2007 – DNA test confirms Larry Birkhead is the biological father of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith’s

daughter Dannielynn.

2010 – Plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashes near Smolensk, with no survivors.

2015 – Apple releases its smart watch.

2019 – Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project announce the first ever image of a black hole,

which was located in the centre of the M87 galaxy.