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April 10: Day of Valor in the Philippines ( 1942 ) 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition began with the Austrian invasion of Bavaria, then a client state of France. 1925 – The novel The Great Gatsby by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published by Scribner's.
April 10, 1940 (Wednesday) The Battle of Midtskogen was fought in the early morning hours and resulted in Norwegian victory. In the First Battle of Narvik, the German destroyers Z22 Anton Schmitt and Z21 Wilhelm Heidkamp were sunk, while the destroyers HMS Hardy and Hunter were lost on the British side.
Eid al-Fitr begins at sunset on the night of the first sighting of the crescent moon. The night on which the moon is sighted is celebrated as Chand Raat. If the moon is not observed immediately after the 29th day of the previous lunar month (either because clouds block its view or because the western sky is still too bright when the moon sets ...
April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day [1] is an annual custom on 1 April consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes. Jokesters often expose their actions by shouting "April Fools!" at the recipient. Mass media can be involved with these pranks, which may be revealed as such the following day.
9561. The solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, also known as the Great North American Eclipse, [1] was a total solar eclipse visible across a band covering parts of North America, from Mexico to Canada and crossing the contiguous United States. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the Sun.
An Eastern Orthodox cross. Apr. 9 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - Apr. 11. All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 23 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. [note 1] For April 10th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 28 .
April 25, 1970 (Saturday) A mutiny of the Trinidanian Army came to a peaceful end after five days, when the government of Trinidad and Tobago negotiated a surrender of the mutineers in return for amnesty. [115] On Tuesday, soldiers in Chaguaramas had seized the Teteron Barracks in the small Caribbean nation.
