April 10<\/p>\n
1606 \u2013 The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.<\/p>\n
1815 \u2013 The Mount Tambora volcano in what is now Indonesia, begins a 3 month long eruption, lasting until July. The eruption kills 71,000 people, and causes the 1816 ‘Year without a summer’ in the northern hemisphere.<\/p>\n
1816 \u2013 The Federal government charters the Second Bank of the United States.<\/p>\n
1864 \u2013 Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed Emperor during the French intervention in Mexico.<\/p>\n
1865 \u2013 A day after his surrender to Union forces, General Robert E. Lee issues General Order No. 9, explaining the terms of the surrender and his farewell to his troops.<\/p>\n
1866 \u2013 The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.<\/p>\n
1872 \u2013 The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska City, Nebraska with 1 million trees being planted.<\/p>\n
1887 \u2013 On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n
1912 \u2013 RMS Titanic<\/em> sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden\u00a0 voyage.<\/p>\n 1916 \u2013 The Professional Golfers’ Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.<\/p>\n 1925 \u2013 The Great Gatsby<\/em> by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner’s Sons.<\/p>\n 1939 \u2013 Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered From Alcoholism<\/em>, the organization’s “Big Book” and the source of its name, is first published.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 Rudolf Vrba and Alfr\u00e9d Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp and write a detailed report, published by the U.S. government War Refugee Board, about the mass murder being committed there.<\/p>\n 1963 \u2013 U.S. submarine SSN-593, USS Thresher<\/em> sinks at sea during deep-diving tests about 220 miles east of Boston, Massachusetts with all 129 hands aboard lost.<\/p>\n 1971 \u2013 In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a visit called ‘Ping-Pong diplomacy’.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 The Red River Valley tornado outbreak has an F4 tornado hit Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 Scientists at Event Horizon Telescope, a global networked array of radio telescopes, announce the first image of a black hole, located in the center of the Messier 87 galaxy in the constellation of Virgo.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 10 1606 \u2013 The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America. 1815 \u2013 The Mount Tambora volcano in what is now Indonesia, begins a 3 month long eruption, lasting until July. The eruption kills 71,000 people, and … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66674"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91708,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66674\/revisions\/91708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}