Today in History
Listings for Sunday, April 10, 2022.
Birthdays:
- 1651 E.W. von Tschirnhaus --1708
- 1794 Commodore Matthew Perry
- 1847 Joseph Pulitzer
- 1883 Kahlil Gibran, writer
- 1915 Harry Morgan
- 1921 Chuck Connors
- 1929 Max Von Sydow
- 1932 Omar Sharif
- 1936 John Madden
- 1951 Steven Seagal
- 1984 Zoe, first frozen-embryo child, in Melbourne, Australia
Events:
- 1790 US Patent system established
- 1816 Afican Methodist Episcopal Church organized.
- 1825 First hotel in Hawaii opens.
- 1849 Safety pin is patented by Walter Hunt.
- 1866 ASPCA (Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) organized.
- 1878 California Street Cable Car Railroad Company starts service.
- 1882 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco and Hawaii)
- 1912 RMS Titanic sets sail for its first and last voyage
- 1930 Synthetic rubber first produced
- 1953 House of Wax, first 3-D movie, released in New York.
- 1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
That's all for today.
