What Happened This Day In History APRIL10

1790		The U.S. patent system is established.
1809		Austria declares war on France and her forces enter Bavaria.
1862		Union forces begin the bombardment of Fort Pulaski in Georgia along the Tybee River.
1865		At Appomattox Court, Va, General Robert E. Lee issues his last orders to the Army of Northern Virginia.
1866		The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is formed.
1902		South African Boers accept British terms of surrender.
1912		The Titanic begins her maiden voyage which will end in disaster.
1925		F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
1930		The first synthetic rubber is produced.
1932		Paul von Hindenburg is elected president in Germany.
1938		Germany annexes Austria.
1941		U.S. troops occupy Greenland to prevent Nazi infiltration.
1945		In their second attempt to take the Seelow Heights, near Berlin, the Red Army launches numerous attacks against the defending Germans. The Soviets gain one mile at the cost of 3,000 men killed and 368 tanks destroyed.
1945		Allied troops liberate the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald north of Weiner, Germany.
1947		Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play major league baseball as he takes the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1971		The American table tennis team arrives in China.
1974		Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir.
1981		Imprisoned Irish Republican Army hunger striker Bobby Sands is elected to the British Parliament.
Born on April 10
1583		Hugo Grotius, Dutch statesman and scholar.
1794		Matthew C. Perry, American naval officer, opened Japan to trade with the west.
1827		Lew Wallace, Civil War general, lawyer, diplomat and author of Ben Hur.
1867		A.E. (George William Russell), Irish poet and mystic.
1880		Frances Perkins, U.S. labor secretary, first female cabinet member.
1903		Clare Boothe Luce, reporter, U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
1917		Robert B. Woodward, synthetic chemist.
1934		David Halberstam, New York Times correspondent, author, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1964.
1932		Omar Sharif (Michael Shalhoub), actor (Dr. Zhivago).
1941		Paul Theroux, author (The Great Railway Bazaar).