Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 10

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  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  General Emiliano Zapata
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  Big Ben
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  Second Bank of the United States
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  Lech Kaczyński
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  A poster supporting the Good Friday Agreement
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  Big Ben in 1858
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  F. Scott Fitzgerald
• General Emiliano Zapata
  General Emiliano Zapata
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  M87* imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope

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Siblings Day in the United States	citation needed tags
1816 – President James Madison signed the charter establishing the Second Bank of the United States as the nation's second national bank.	refimprove section
1868 – A British military expedition to Abyssinia culminated in a rout of the Ethiopian Empire and the later suicide of Emperor Template:Nowrap.	refimprove section
1959 – Crown Prince Akihito, the future Emperor of Japan, wedded Michiko, the first commoner to marry into the Japanese Imperial Family.	refimprove section
1968 – In the best-known maritime disaster in New Zealand's history, the inter-island ferry TEV Wahine capsized outside Wellington harbour, killing 53 of the 733 people on board.	refimprove section
1971 – In an attempt to thaw Sino-American relations, members of the American table tennis team entered the People's Republic of China for a weeklong visit.	needs more footnotes, lead too short
1998 – Ireland and the United Kingdom signed the Good Friday Agreement, a major step in the Northern Ireland peace process.	refimprove sections
2009 – Fijian President Ratu Josefa Iloilo announced that he had suspended the constitution and assumed all governance in the country after it was ruled that the government of Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama was illegal.	outdated
2010 – A Tupolev Tu-154M aircraft carrying President Lech Kaczyński and other Polish officials crashed while attempting to land in heavy fog at Smolensk-North air base, Russia, killing all 96 on board.	unreferenced section
Dolores Huerta |b|1930	citation needed tags (8)
* 1826 – Greek War of Independence: Inhabitants of the Greek town of Missolonghi attempted to escape a year-long siege, but were caught and killed by Ottoman forces.	Many citations needed tags

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• 1221 — A Mongol army commanded by Tolui captured the city of Merv in present-day Turkmenistan, allegedly killing more than 1.7 million people.
• 1724 Bach led the first performance of his cantata Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, his first cantata composed for Easter in Leipzig.
• 1741 – War of the Austrian Succession: Prussian forces defeated Austrian troops at the Battle of Mollwitz in present-day Małujowice, Poland, cementing Frederick II's authority over the newly conquered territory of Silesia.
• 1858 – Big Ben, the bell in the Palace of Westminster's clock tower in London, was cast after the original bell cracked during testing.
• 1919 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata (pictured) was shot to death near Ciudad Ayala, Morelos.
• 1944 – The Holocaust: Slovak Jewish prisoners Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz, later publishing a report that became one of the earliest and most detailed descriptions of the camp's mass killings.
• 1963 – The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine Template:USS sank with all hands lost during deep-diving tests in the North Atlantic Ocean.
• 1973 – In the deadliest aviation accident in Swiss history, Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashed into a hillside near Hochwald, killing 108 people of 145 on board.
• 1992 – First Nagorno-Karabakh War: Dozens of Armenian civilians were massacred in the village of Maraga by Azerbaijani forces.
• Born/died: | Gabrielle d'Estrées |d|1599| Thomas Jones |d|1619| Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg |d|1704| Giovanni Aldini |b|1762| Lew Wallace |b|1827| Harry Morgan |b|1915| Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri |b|1917| Carol V. Robinson |b|1956| Carole Goble |b|1961| Stuart Sutcliffe |d|1962| Evelyn Waugh |d|1966| Sadio Mané |b|1992|

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• 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition began with the Austrian invasion of Bavaria, then a client state of France.
• 1815 – Mount Tambora in Indonesia began the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history, killing at least 71,000 people and affecting temperatures worldwide.
• 1925 – The Great Gatsby (cover pictured), a novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published by Scribner's.
• 1970 – In the midst of business disagreements with his bandmates, Paul McCartney announced his departure from the Beatles.
• 2019 – Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project released the first image of the black hole at the center of the galaxy M87.