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10 aпрeля в истории
Highlights in history on this date:
1633 Bananas go on sale in England for the first time.
1741 Prussia's Frederick II defeats Austrian forces at Mollwitz and conquers Silesia.
1814 Napoleon's army is defeated by the British and Spanish at the Battle of Toulouse; the defeat led to his abdication and exile to Elba the next day.
1837 Governor Sir Richard Bourke proclaims the site of Melbourne.
1849 American Walter Hunt patents the safety pin. Unable to see its possibilities, he sold all rights for a few hundred dollars.
1854 The constitution of the Orange Free State in south Africa is proclaimed.
1912 Luxury liner RMS Titanic sails from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.
1916 The Professional Golfers Association holds its first championship, in Bronxville, New York.
1919 Revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata is killed in an army ambush in Chinameca, Mexico.
1921 Dr Sun Yat-sen is elected president of China.
1922 The Genoa Conference opens to discuss the reconstruction of Europe after World War I.
1925 The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is first published.
1932 Paul von Hindenburg is re-elected German president, with Adolf Hitler finishing second.
1941 Siege of Tobruk begins in World War II.
1944 British midget submarine secretly enters Bergen harbour in Norway and sinks German merchant ship Barenfels.
1959 Crown Prince Akihito of Japan marries a commoner, Michiko Shoda.
1961 Former Nazi Adolf Eichmann is put on trial as a war criminal in an Israeli court in Jerusalem.
1962 Death of Hungarian-born film director Michael Curtiz, who won an Oscar for Casablanca.
1963 US atomic submarine Thresher sinks in the northern Atlantic and kills 129 people, the worst submarine disaster in US history.
1966 Death of English novelist Evelyn Waugh, whose works included Scoop, The Loved One and Brideshead Revisited.
1968 The Wahine inter-island sinks in severe weather in Wellington harbour, New Zealand, killing 51 people.
1972 Earthquake strikes southern Iran, killing more than
5,000.
1972 More than 50 countries sign a treaty outlawing the stockpiling of biological weapons.
1973 In Switzerland, 108 people die when a plane crashes while attempting to land at Basel.
1974 Golda Meir resigns as prime minister of Israel over differences within her Labour Party.
1984 A rally to demand free presidential elections in Brazil after 20 years of dictatorship draws a million people in Rio de Janeiro.
1986 United States conducts nuclear test in Nevada desert despite growing protests among peace groups and strong Soviet campaign for nuclear test ban.
1989 British and Australian forces arrive in northern Namibia to monitor planned withdrawal of black nationalist guerrillas.
1992 Three people are killed and 91 injured in a car bomb explosion in London's financial district. The IRA claims responsibility.
1993 Chris Hani, one of South Africa's top black leaders, is murdered. Two white extremists were later convicted in the slaying.
1994 NATO warplanes launch air strikes for the first time on Serb forces advancing on the Bosnian Moslem town of Gorazde, a UN-declared ``safe area''.
1994 Paul Keating arrives in Hanoi on first visit by an Australian prime minister since the Vietnam War.
1995 Top United Nations weapons inspector reports that Baghdad seems to be developing biological weapons; Death of former Indian prime minister Morarji Desai.
1997 Ecuador's top court puts out a warrant for the arrest of deposed President Abdala Bucaram, prompting him to seek political asylum in Panama.
1998 In what is heralded as the biggest breakthrough since 1969, the faction leaders of Northern Ireland and the governments of Britain and Ireland agree on a model for governing the province.
1999 Under daily NATO air raids, Yugoslavia celebrates a glum Easter, while ethnic Albanians fleeing into Macedonia carry terrifying stories of Serb atrocities in Kosovo; Brigadier-General Ali Sayyad Shirazi, deputy joint chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, is assassinated by ``terrorist elements''.
2000 The leaders of North and South Korea agree to meet for the first time in June, marking a major step forward in relations between the two nations, which technically remain at war.