TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – APRIL 10
1516 1st Jewish ghetto established: Venice compels Jews to live in a specific area
1790 The U.S. patent system is established.
1815 Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies experiences a cataclysmic eruption, one of the most powerful in history, killing around 71,000 people, causes global volcanic winter
1845 More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh PA
1849 The safety pin was patented by Walter Hunt, in New York.
1866 The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is formed.
1869 Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9
1902 South African Boers accept British terms of surrender.
1912 The Titanic begins her maiden voyage which will end in disaster.
1930 The first synthetic rubber is produced.
1945 Allied troops liberate the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald north of Weener, Germany.
1947 Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play major league baseball as he takes the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1963 The atomic-powered submarine Thresher sank off Cape Cod, Mass.
1972 US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons
1981 Imprisoned Irish Republican Army hunger striker Bobby Sands is elected to the British Parliament.
1984 US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors
1998 The Northern Ireland “Good Friday Accord” was reached.
2001 Mercy killings become legal in the Netherlands
In a controversial decision the Dutch senate approved a bill legalizing euthanasia for patients with unbearable, terminal illness.
2003 The U.S. House passed the “Amber Alert” bill. It provided a system for alerting the public about missing or abducted children.
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