History for April 10 - On-This-Day.com:
William Hazlitt 1778 - English writer, essayist, philosopher and critic, Commodore Matthew Perry 1794, William Booth 1829 - Founder of Salvation Army, author ("In Darkest England")
Harry Morgan 1915 - Actor ("M*A*S*H"), Chuck (Kevin Joseph) Connors 1921 - Actor ("The Rifleman"), Steven Seagal 1951 - Actor ("Out for Justice")
1849 - Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. He sold the rights for $100.
1912 - The Titanic set sail from Southampton, England.
1919 - In Mexico, revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata was killed by government troops.
1925 - F. Scott Fitzgerald published "The Great Gatsby" for the first time.
1932 - Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of Germany with 19 million votes. Adolf Hitler came in second with 13 million votes.
1963 - 129 people died when the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher failed to surface off Cape Cod, MA.
1971 - The American table tennis team arrived in China. They were the first group of Americans officially allowed into China since the founding of the People Republic in 1949. The team had recieved the surprise invitation while in Japan for the 31st World Table Tennis Championship.
1992 - Outside Needles, CA, comedian Sam Kinison was killed when a pickup truck slammed into his car on a desert road between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
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