April 10: Fast of the Firstborn begins at dawn and Passover begins at sunset (Judaism, 2017)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition began when Austria invaded Bavaria.
- 1858 – Big Ben, the bell in the Palace of Westminster's clock tower in London, was cast after the original bell had cracked during testing.
- 1925 – The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (pictured) was first published.
- 1944 – The Holocaust: Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz; their report was one of the earliest and most detailed descriptions of the mass killings in the camp.
- 1992 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: At least 40 Armenian civilians were massacred in Maraga, Azerbaijan.
Gabrielle d'Estrées (d. 1589) · Frances Perkins (b. 1880) · Hayley Westenra (b. 1987)
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