TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Wednesday, April 10, the 101st day of 2024. There are 265 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:
On April 10, 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, bound for New York on its illfated maiden voyage.
ON THIS DATE:
In 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was incorporated.
In 1932, German President Paul Von Hindenburg was reelected in a runoff, with Adolf Hitler coming in second.
In 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.)
In 1963, the fast-attack nuclear submarine USS Thresher (SSN-593) sank during deep-diving tests east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in a disaster that claimed 129 lives.
In 1972, the United States and the Soviet Union joined some 70 nations in signing an agreement banning biological warfare.
In 1974, Golda Meir announced her resignation as prime minister of Israel.
In 1998, the Northern Ireland peace talks concluded as negotiators reached a landmark settlement to end 30 years of bitter rivalries and bloody attacks.
In 2005, Tiger Woods won his fourth Masters with a spectacular finish of birdies and bogeys.
In 2017, Justice Neil Gorsuch took his place as the newest addition on the bench of the Supreme Court, restoring a narrow conservative majority.
In 2019, scientists released the first image ever made of a black hole, revealing a fiery, doughnut-shaped object in a galaxy 53 million light-years from earth.
In 2023, a Louisville bank employee shot and killed five co-workers, including a close friend of the governor, and wounded eight others in a livestreamed workplace shooting at a bank branch; the shooter, 25-year-old Connor Sturgeon, was fatally shot by police.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Actor Steven Seagal is 72. Actor Olivia Brown is 67. Rock singer-musician Brian Setzer is 65. Olympic gold medal speedskater Cathy Turner is 62. Actor-comedian Orlando Jones is 56. Singer Mandy Moore is 40. Actor Haley Joel Osment is 36.