10 Aprile

The **10t o Aprile** is the 100t day o the year (101st in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 265 day ti come.

## Events

*1809 - Napoleonic Wars: War o the 5t Coalition stairts.
*1815 - The Tambora volcanae in Indonesie erupts.
*1827 - George Canning becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
*1858 - The Big Ben bell is cast.
*1896 - 1896 Simmer Olympics: Spyridon Louis wins the first marathon race o the modren Olympic Gemmes.
*1912 - The *[[RMS Titanic|Titanic]]* leaves port in Southampton, Ingland, for her first an anerly voyage.
*1919 - Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata is kilt bi govrenment forces.
*1941 - Warld War II: The Axis pouers establish the independent state o Croatie.
*1959 - Future-Japanese Emperor Akihito marries future-Empress Michiko.
*1968 - The Vahine ferry mishanter in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand, kills 53 fowk.
*1998 - The Guid Frydey Greeance is reached on achievin peace in Northren Ireland, an put tae referendum votes on baith sides o the Erse mairch.
*2006 - Romano Prodi narrowly wins Italy's general election.
*2008 - Nepal haulds its first elections in ten year.
*2010 - Pols Air Force Tu-154 crash: A plane carryin Pols dignitaries tae a commemoration o the Katyn Massacre crashes in Smolensk, Wastren Roushie, killin aw 96 fowk on baird.
*2016 - The Kollam temple fire in Kerala, Soothren Indie, kills ower 100 fowk.
*2019 - The first-ever photograph o a black hole is released.
*2019 - Jackie Bird presents her last edeetion o BBC Reporting Scotland.

## Births

* 401 - Theodosius II, Roman Emperor (d. 450)
* 1513 - James V o Scotland (d. 1542)
* 1583 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch polymath (d. 1645)
* 1755 - Samuel Hahnemann, German medicinar (d. 1843)
* 1766 - John Leslie, Scots physicist (d. 1832)
* 1814 - Edward Gordon, Baron Gordon o Drumearn, Scots juidge an politeecian  (d. 1879)
* 1847 - Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American jurnalist an publisher (d. 1911)
* 1864 - Eugen d'Albert, Scts-German componer (d. 1932)
* 1901 - Alexander Ireland, Scots boxer (d. 1966)
* 1927 - Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biochemist an geneticist (d. 2010)
* 1929 - Max von Sydow, Swadish actor
* 1930 - Jackie Mudie, Scots fitbawer (d. 1992)
* 1930 - Tommy Younger, Scots fitbawer (d. 1984)
* 1932 - Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (d. 2015)
* 1937 - Jimmy Thomson, Scots fitbawer (d. 2012)
* 1952 - Steven Seagal, American actor
* 1960 - Katrina Leskanich, American sangster
* 1963 - Doris Leuthard, Swiss politeecian
* 1973 - Roberto Carlos, Brazilian fitbawer
* 1979 - Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Inglis sangster
* 1979 - Rachel Corrie, American activist (d. 2003)
* 1982 - Gary McDonald, Scots fitbawer
* 1984 - Mandy Moore, American actress an sangster
* 1986 - Vincent Kompany, Belgian fitbawer
* 1988 - Haley Joel Osment, American actor
* 1989 - Glen Muirhead, Scots curler
* 1992 - Daisy Ridley, Inglis actress
* 1996 - Liam Smith, Scots fitbawer
* 2000 - Surf Mesa, American muisicker, record producer an multi-instrumentalist

## Daiths

* 879 - Louis the Stammerer, Keeng o the Wast Franks (b. 846)
* 1585 - Pape Gregory XIII (b. 1502)
* 1813 - Joseph-Louis Lagrange, French mathemateecian (b. 1736)
* 1889 - William Crichton, Scots ingineer an shipbigger (b. 1827)
* 1919 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1879)
* 1924 - Nelson Annandale, Scots zoologist, entomologist, anthropologist an herpetologist (b. 1876)
* 1966 - Evelyn Waugh, Inglis writer (b. 1903)
* 1995 - Morarji Desai, Prime meenister o Indie (b. 1896)
* 2010 - Dixie Carter, American actress (b. 1939)
* 2010 - Daiths in the Pols Air Force Tu-154 crash:
**Ryszard Kaczorowski, Pols statesman (b. 1919)
**Lech Kaczyński, Preses o Poland (b. 1949)
**Maria Kazcynska, First Lady o Poland (b. 1942)
* 2013 - Robert Edwards, Inglis geneticist (b. 1925)
* 2014 - Sue Townsend, Inglis writer (b. 1946)
* 2015 - Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer an commentator (b. 1930)
* 2017 - Arnold Clark, Scots businessman (b. 1927)
* 2018 - John Lambie, Scots fitbawer (b. 1941)

## Halidays
* The **10t o Aprile** is the feast day o the follaein saunts:
* St. Michael de Sanctis
* Bl. Anthony Neyrot
* St. Apollonius
* St. Beocca
* St. Terence
* St. Fulbert
* St. Macarius the Ghent
* St. Malchus
* St. Michael of the Saints (Michael o the Saunts)
* St. Palladius
* St. Paternus