On This Day
10 April
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1875 Arya Samaj was founded by Swami Dayanand Saraswati, the great social reformer of modern India.
- 1889 Ram Chandra Chatterjee became the first Indian to fly in a balloon. An acrobat, gymnast, balloonist, parachutist and patriot, he was also the first Indian to take up ballooning as a profession.
- 1949 Birbal Sahni, paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent, died in Lucknow. He also took an interest in geology and archaeology. He founded what is now the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany at Lucknow in 1946.
- 1982 INSAT-1A, Indian communications satellite which formed part of the Indian National Satellite System, was successful launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States. However, following a series of failures, the satellite was abandoned in September 1982, less than 6 months into a seven-year mission.
- 1995 Morarji Desai, independence activist and politician who served as the 5th Prime Minister of India between 1977 and 1979 leading the government formed by the Janata Party, died in Mumbai.
- 1997 Kerala becomes the first state to have public telephones in all its villages, accessible over STD/ISD from any part of the world.
- 1999 Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, novelist and short story writer of Malayalam literature, died at his ancestral village at Sankaramangalam in Thakazhi, Alappuzha, Kerala. He wrote over 30 novels and novellas and over 7 short stories focusing on the lives of the oppressed classes.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1755 Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, best known for creating the pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine called homeopathy, was born.
- 1815 Mount Tambora, in Indonesia, exploded in one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history. The explosion was heard up to 2000 km (1200 mi) away.
- 1847 Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World, was born. Today, his name is best known for the Pulitzer Prizes, which were established in 1917 as a result of his endowment to Columbia University. The prizes are given annually to recognize and reward excellence in American journalism, photography, literature, history, poetry, music, and drama.
- 1849 Safety pin was patented by Walter Hunt.
- 1866 Three years after stopping a carriage driver in Russia from beating his horse, Henry Bergh of the United States founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in New York City; the ASPCA became one of the largest organizations dedicated to halting cruelty to animals.
- 1912 The 66,000 ton RMS Titanic left port from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage with 2,223 people.
- 1925 The novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published by Scribner's of New York. A film version was made in 1974.
- 1930 The first synthetic rubber was produced.
- 1931 Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, died in New York, United States. He is also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected the title.
- 1972 A massive earthquake occurred in southern Iran which flattened entire towns and villages.
- 1986 Halley's Comet reached the perigee (point nearest Earth) of its most recent passage near the planet.
- 2001 The Netherlands passed a bill permitting euthanasia, the first such national law in the world.
- 2019 Astronomers released the first-ever image of a black hole, taken by The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, a group of observatories united to image the emission around supermassive black holes.
- ⭐ Significance
- World Homeopathy Day is celebrated to mark the importance of homoeopathy and its contribution to the world of medicine. The date is the birth anniversary of Dr Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann, who was a German physician and the founder of homoeopathy.
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