Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: April 10
April 10, 2024 is the 101st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 265 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Aries is your zodiac sign. Diamond is your modern birthstone. Opal is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: April 10
- 837 –Halley’s Comet and Earth experienced their closest approach to one another when their separating distance equalled 0.0342 AU (3.2 million miles).
- 879 –Louis III becomes King of the Western Franks.
- 1500 –Ludovico Sforza is captured by the Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.
- 1710 –The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, enters into force in Great Britain.
- 1821 –Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.
- 1858 –The original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonne bell for the Palace of Westminster is cast in Stockton-on-Tees by Warner’s of Cripplegate. This however cracked during testing and is recast into the 13.76 tonne bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry and is still in use to date.
- 1868 –At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two die from the British/Indian troops.
- 1874 –The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.
- 1925 –The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
- 1991 –Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
Who were born on April 10?
- 401 –Theodosius II, Roman emperor (d. 450)
- 1880 –Frances Perkins, American politician (d. 1965)
- 1918 –Lee Bergere, American actor (d. 2007)
- 1929 –Max von Sydow, Swedish actor
- 1930 –Dolores Huerta, American labor activist
- 1946 –Adolf Winkelmann, German film director
- 1954 –Peter MacNicol, American actor
- 1981 –Laura Bell Bundy, American actor
- 1986 –Ayesha Takia, Indian actress
- 1988 –Haley Joel Osment, American actor
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