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April 10: National Hug Your Dog Day: --
Grab your dog and give them an extra cuddle today! Our dogs
deserve all the love and affection we can give them, which is why
there's a special day dedicated just to hugging them. Hugging your
dog releases a hormone in both pup and person called "oxytocin,"
informally referred to as "the cuddle hormone." Not only
does a good tight squeeze strengthen your bond, it shows your pet
that you care. Today is a day to celebrate your dog for all they
do! Dogs have been considered to be a best friend of humans for a
very, very long time, evolving from wolves thousands of years ago.
In fact, some historians estimate that dogs may have been
domesticated as long as 20,000 years ago or more! Most likely, the
domesticated relationship between dogs and humans began somewhere
in Europe or possibly in western portions of Siberia. National Hug
Your Dog Day was started in an effort to draw attention to the joy
and appreciation that people can show to their pets! The day may
have gotten its start in the early 2000s by a dog trainer from
Chicago, Ami Moore, who is also known as the "dog whisperer".
The hope for Moore was simply to show some support and honor for
these delightful four legged companions. Slightly different than
National Hug Your Hound Day which is celebrated later in the year
in September, National Hug Your Dog Day falls at a good time
earlier in the year to be sure give that pooch a big hug. Or, why
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Today, April 10, 2026
April 10: National Farm Animals Day: --
Farm animals take quite the hit in terms of living conditions,
diets, hormonal injections, etc., and this is why it is important
to lend our voices to the cause this National Farm Animals Day on
April 10. First celebrated in 2005, the day is meant to bring
awareness to the overall rough conditions that farm animals are
forced to live under. Capitalism has led to a gross increase in
demand for livestock by commercial brands. To sell the most amount
of meat and dairy products, animals are subjected to growth and
antibody injections. National Farm Animals Day was first
commemorated in 2005 by Colleen Paige. Paige is a well-known
celebrity pet lifestyle expert, an author, and an animal rescuer
amongst her many other accolades and titles. While the day is not
registered as an official day, it is still widely celebrated in
the U.S. as the message it aims to convey resounds with many
across the nation. One of the main reasons the day was inaugurated
was to shed light on the poor living conditions of farm animals.
Firstly, because of commercialization and capitalism, livestock is
produced and maintained in large populations. Often, this means
cramped and extremely tight living spaces for the animals. All of
this leads to poorer health conditions for them as diseases and
infections can spread easily amongst the animals. Moreover, to
market products to the masses, farm animals are also endlessly
injected with antibodies. World Day for Farmed Animals is also
celebrated on October 2. The main purpose of both days remains the
same - to protect farm animals in the long run by providing better
living conditions for them. Going by simple logic, the farm
animals' products we consume will only be beneficial for us if the
farm animals themselves are kept in great conditions. We can start
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Today, April 10, 2026
April 10: National Siblings Day (World
Siblings Day): -- Siblings are our family, and as such are a huge
part of our lives. Siblings can be our best friends or sometimes
our worst enemies. Our siblings encourage us to be our best,
embarrass us, and be our biggest motivators and competitors. It's
now growing into a nationwide day of both remembrance and
celebration. Three U.S. presidents have recognized the event -
most recently, President Obama in 2016. The "Siblings Day
Foundation", sponsors of this day, gained non-profit status
in 1999. As of 2023, they are still working on establishing a
United Nations resolution for an International Siblings Day. Hindu
peoples celebrate Raksha Bandhan to celebrate the bond between
brothers and sisters. In Raksha Bandhan, Hindu women tie a band
around their brother's wrists, symbolizing that the sister will
protect them. The brothers give a gift in return, both agreeing to
protect and care for each other. The festival has ancient origins
but is still popular to this day - it is the earliest known
celebration of siblings! Claudia Evart created the US holiday in
1995 after losing her brother and sister at a very early age. She
realized what an important role siblings have in our lives, so she
created the holiday to honor the memory of her siblings. For the
holiday, Claudia chose April 10 - her late sister Lisette's
birthday. Mother's Day has been around since 1907, and Father's
Day has been around since 1910. This makes almost 100 years
without a day honoring our siblings! Claudia founded the "Siblings
Day Foundation" which continues to spread the mission of
honoring our siblings. The foundation is working to make the
holiday federally recognized in the United states, and are working
on establishing an International Siblings Day through the United
Nations. Since 1998, 49 states have issued gubernatorial
proclamations to observe this day on April 10; three US presidents
have recognized the holiday. Sibling love is global - Australia,
India, and Spain are only a few of the countries that celebrate
Siblings Day. In Europe, National Siblings Day is celebrated as
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Today, April 10, 2026
April 10, 1794: #BOTD: #HBD! Matthew C.
Perry, known as "The Father Of The Steam Navy" in the
United States, English-Scottish American naval officer who
commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812 and the
Mexican-American War, leader of The Perry Expedition that ended
Japan's isolationism and resulted in The Convention Of Kanagawa
between Japan and the United States in 1854 (d. March 4, 1858) is
#born Matthew Calbraith Perryin South Kingstown, Rhode Island to
Sarah Wallace (nee Alexander) (1768-1830) and Navy Captain
Christopher Raymond Perry (1761-1818) of the distinguished Perry
family, an American naval and political dynasty from Rhode Island
of 17th-century English immigrant stock whose members included
several United States naval commanders, naval aviators,
politicians, artists, clergymen, lawyers, physicians, and
socialites. Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry was interested in
the education of naval officers and assisted in the development of
an apprentice system that helped establish the curriculum at the
United States Naval Academy. With the advent of the steam engine,
he became a leading advocate of modernizing the U.S. Navy
accordingly. Living in his adopted home of New York City, Perry's
health began to fail as he suffered from cirrhosis of the liver
from heavy drinking as an alcoholic, which compounded the health
complications leading to his death. He also suffered severe
arthritis that left him in frequent pain, and on occasion
precluded him from his duties. Perry spent his last years
preparing for the publication of his account of the Japan
expedition, announcing its completion on December 28, 1857. Two
days later he was detached from his last post, an assignment to
the Naval Efficiency Board. He died awaiting further orders in New
York City, of rheumatic fever that had spread to the heart,
compounded by complications of gout and alcoholism, aged 63.
Initially interred in a vault on the grounds of St. Mark's Church
in-the-Bowery, in New York City, Perry's remains were moved to the
Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island, on March 21, 1866, along
with those of his daughter, Anna, who died in 1839. In 1873, an
elaborate monument was placed by Perry's widow over his grave in
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Today, April 10, 2026
April 10, 1847: #BOTD: #HBD! Joseph
Pulitzer, Hungarian-American journalist, publisher, activist,
philanthropist and politician, founder of Pulitzer, Inc. (d.
October 29, 1911) is #born Jozsef Pulitzer into a Jewish family in
a Jewish neighborhood of Mako, Kingdom Of Hungary. He came to
America in 1864 and fought briefly in the Civil War for the Union.
He was a newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and
the New York World. He became a leading national figure in the
Democratic Party and was elected congressman from New York. He
crusaded against big business and corruption, and helped keep the
Statue Of Liberty in New York. In the 1890s the fierce competition
between his World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal
caused both to develop the techniques of yellow journalism, which
won over readers with sensationalism, sex, crime and graphic
horrors. The wide appeal reached a million copies a day and opened
the way to mass-circulation newspapers that depended on
advertising revenue (rather than cover price or political party
subsidies) and appealed to readers with multiple forms of news,
gossip, entertainment and advertising. 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. Pulitzer founded the Columbia School of Journalism by his
philanthropic bequest; it opened in 1912. He then began a
remarkable career in journalism and publishing. His newspapers
included the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. He
also endowed the journalism school at Columbia University and
established a fund for the Pulitzer Prizes, awarded annually for
excellence in journalism. Joseph Pulitzer died of heart disease in
Charleston Harbor, South Carolina aboard his yacht Liberty, aged
64. While traveling to his winter home at the Jekyll Island Club
on Jekyll Island, Georgia, in 1911, Pulitzer had his yacht stop in
Charleston Harbor. On October 29, 1911, Pulitzer listened to his
German secretary read aloud about King Louis XI of France. As the
secretary neared the end, Pulitzer said in German: "Leise,
ganz leise" (English: "Softly, quite softly"), and
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Today, April 10, 2026
April 10, 1865: The American Civil War
(The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Eastern Theater
Of The American Civil War: The Conclusion Of The American Civil
War: The Appomattox Campaign: The Battle Of Appomattox Court
House: (The Surrender Of Robert E. Lee, The Surrender Of The Army
Of Northern Virginia, The Commencement Of The Conclusion Of The
American Civil War, The First Surrender Agreement Of The
Confederate States Of America (CSA) (The First Surrender Agreement
Of The Confederate State (C.S.), The First Surrender Agreement Of
The Confederacy, The First Surrender Agreement Of The South):
Lee's Farewell Address (General Order No. 9): -- A day after his
surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee
addresses his troops for the last time with his Farewell Address,
also known as General Order No. 9, delivered to his Army Of
Northern Virginia after he surrendered the army to Lt. Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant. Lee's surrender was instrumental in bringing
about the end of the American Civil War. The text of the order,
which were written and drafted by Col. Charles Marshall, edited
and finalized by Lee, were issued as follows: "Headquarters,
Army Of Northern Virginia, 10th April 1865. General Order No. 9.
After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage
and fortitude, The Army Of Northern Virginia has been compelled to
yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the
survivors of so many hard fought battles, who have remained
steadfast to the last, that I have consented to the result from no
distrust of them. But feeling that valour and devotion could
accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that must
have attended the continuance of the contest, I have determined to
avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have
endeared them to their countrymen. By the terms of the agreement,
officers and men can return to their homes and remain until
exchanged. You will take with you the satisfaction that proceeds
from the consciousness of duty faithfully performed, and I
earnestly pray that a merciful God will extend to you his blessing
and protection. With an unceasing admiration of your constancy and
devotion to your Country, and a grateful remembrance of your kind
and generous consideration for myself, I bid you an affectionate
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Today, April 10, 2026
April 10, 1912: Maiden Voyages: Watercraft: Merchant Ships (Merchant Vessels, Trading Vessels, Merchantmen): Passenger Ships: Ocean Liners: RMS Titanic: --The ill-fated British passenger liner RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England to New York City on her first and only voyage. On April 2, 1912, she had begun her sea trials; but only twelve days later, the Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 PM and sank at 2:20 AM the next day. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, and more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time it entered service and was the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. It was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Thomas Andrews, her architect, died in the disaster. Titanic was under the command of Edward Smith, who also went down with the ship. The ocean liner carried some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere throughout Europe who were seeking a new life in the United States. The first-class accommodation was designed to be the pinnacle of comfort and luxury, with an on-board gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries, high-class restaurants and opulent cabins. A high-powered radiotelegraph transmitter was available for sending passenger "marconigrams" and for the ship's operational use. Although Titanic had advanced safety features such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, Titanic only carried enough lifeboats for 1,178 people-about half the number on board, and one third of her total capacity-due to outdated maritime safety regulations. The ship carried 16 lifeboat davits which could lower three lifeboats each, for a total of 48 boats. However, Titanic carried only a total of 20 lifeboats, four of which were collapsible and proved hard to launch during the sinking. After leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912, Titanic called at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland before heading west to New York. On 14 April, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles south of Newfoundland, Titanic received six warnings of sea ice but was travelling near her maximum speed when her lookouts sighted the iceberg. Unable to turn quickly enough, the ship suffered a glancing blow that caused the hull plates to buckle inwards along her starboard (right) side and opened five of her sixteen watertight compartments to the sea; she could only survive four flooding. Meanwhile, passengers and some crew members were evacuated in lifeboats, many of which were launched only partially loaded. A disproportionate number of men were left aboard because of a "women and children first" protocol for loading lifeboats. At 2:20 a.m., she broke apart and foundered with well over one thousand people still aboard. Just under two hours after Titanic sank, the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia arrived and brought aboard an estimated 705 survivors. The disaster was met with worldwide shock and outrage at the huge loss of life and the regulatory and operational failures that led to it. Public inquiries in Britain and the United States led to major improvements in maritime safety. One of their most important legacies was the establishment in 1914 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), which still governs maritime safety today. Additionally, several new wireless regulations were passed around the world in an effort to learn from the many missteps in wireless communications which could have saved many more passengers. The wreck of Titanic was discovered in 1985 (more than 70 years after the disaster), and remains on the seabed. The ship was split in two and is gradually disintegrating at a depth of 12,415 feet Thousands of artefacts have been recovered and displayed at museums around the world. Titanic has become one of the most famous ships in history; her memory is kept alive by numerous works of popular culture, including books, folk songs, films, exhibits, and memorials. Titanic is the second largest ocean liner wreck in the world, only beaten by her sister HMHS Britannic, the largest ever sunk. The final survivor of the sinking, Millvina Dean, aged two months at the time, died in 2009 at the age of 97. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/titanic-documentaries-dvd.html
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Today, April 10, 2026
April 10, 1915: #BOTD: #HBD! Harry
Morgan, American actor and director (d. December 7, 2011) is #born
Harry Bratsberg in Detroit, Michigan. Morgan's television and film
career spanned six decades. Morgan's major roles included Pete
Porter in both December Bride (1954-1959) and Pete and Gladys
(1960-1962); Officer Bill Gannon on Dragnet (1967-1970); Amos
Coogan on Hec Ramsey (1972-1974); and his starring role as Colonel
Sherman T. Potter in M*A*S*H (1975-1983) and AfterMASH
(1983-1984). Morgan appeared in more than 100 films, including
Strategic Air Command. Morgan was raised in Muskegon, Michigan,
and graduated from Muskegon High School in 1933, where he achieved
distinction as a statewide debating champion. He originally
aspired to a J.D. degree, but began acting while a junior at the
University of Chicago in 1935. He began acting on stage under his
birth name, in 1937, joining the Group Theatre in New York City
formed by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford, and Lee Strasberg in
1931. Morgan made his screen debut (originally using the name
"Henry Morgan") in the 1942 movie To the Shores of
Tripoli. His screen name later became "Henry 'Harry' Morgan"
and eventually Harry Morgan, to avoid confusion with the popular
humorist of the same name. Morgan hosted the NBC radio series
Mystery in the Air starring Peter Lorre in 1947.. On CBS
television, he played Pete Porter in Pete and Gladys (1960-1962),
with Cara Williams as wife Gladys. Pete and Gladys was a spin-off
of December Bride (1954-1959), starring Spring Byington, a show in
which Morgan had a popular recurring role. In 1950, Morgan
appeared as an obtrusive, alcohol-addled hotel clerk in the
Dragnet radio episode "The Big Boys". Morgan is even
more widely recognized as Officer Bill Gannon, Joe Friday's
partner in the revived version of Dragnet (1967-1970). Morgan had
also appeared with Dragnet star Jack Webb in three film noir
movies, Dark City (1950), Appointment with Danger (1951) and Pete
Kelly's Blues (1955), and was an early regular member of Jack
Webb's stock company of actors on the original Dragnet radio show.
Morgan's first appearance on M*A*S*H was in the show's third
season (1974-1975), when he played eccentric Major General
Bartford Hamilton Steele in "The General Flipped at Dawn",
which first aired on September 10, 1974. The following season,
Morgan joined the cast of M*A*S*H as Colonel Sherman T. Potter. A
fan of the sitcom, Morgan replaced McLean Stevenson, who left the
show at the end of the previous season. Unlike Stevenson's
character Henry Blake, Potter was a career Army officer who was a
firm yet good-humored, caring father figure to those under his
command. In 1980, Morgan won an Emmy award for his performance on
M*A*S*H. When asked if he was a better actor after working with
the show's talented cast, Morgan responded, "I don't know
about that, but it's made me a better human being." After the
end of the series, Morgan reprised the Potter role in a
short-lived spinoff series, AfterMASH. Morgan died peacefully in
his sleep at 3:00 am in Los Angeles, on December 7, 2011, at the
age of 96. His son, Charles, said he recently had been treated for
pneumonia. His body was cremated and his remains were given to his
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Today, April 10, 2026
April 10, 1932: #BOTD: #HBD! Omar Sharif,
Egyptian actor, generally regarded as one of his country's
greatest male film stars (d. July 10, 2015) is #born Michel Yusef
Dimitri Chalhoub in Alexandria, Kingdom of Egypt (now Arab
Republic of Egypt), to a Melkite Catholic family of Lebanese
descent, making him and his family members of the Antiochian Greek
Christian minority (also known as Rum). He began his career in his
native country in the 1950s, but is best known for his appearances
in British, American, French, and Italian productions. His career
encompassed over 100 films spanning 50 years, and brought him many
accolades including three Golden Globe Awards and a Cesar Award
for Best Actor. Sharif played opposite Peter O'Toole as Sherif Ali
in the David Lean epic Lawrence of Arabia (1962), which earned him
an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and
portrayed the title role in Lean's Doctor Zhivago (1965), earning
him the Golden Globe for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama. He
continued to play romantic leads, in films like Funny Girl (1968)
and The Tamarind Seed (1974), and historical figures like the
eponymous characters in Genghis Khan (1965) and Che! (1969). His
acting career continued well into old age, with a well-received
turn as a Muslim Turkish immigrant in the French film Monsieur
Ibrahim (2003). He made his final film appearance in 2015, the
year of his death. Sharif spoke five languages: Arabic, English,
French, Italian and Spanish. He bridled at travel restrictions
imposed by the government of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel
Nasser, leading to self-exile in Europe. He was a lifelong horse
racing enthusiast, and at one time ranked among the world's top
contract bridge players. He was the recipient of high civil honors
from multiple countries, including the Egyptian Order of Merit and
the French Legion of Honour. He was one of only 25 grantees of
UNESCO's Sergei Eisenstein Medal, in recognition of his
significant contributions to world film and cultural diversity.
Omar Sharif died after suffering a heart attack at a hospital in
Cairo, Egypt. Sharif's funeral was held on July 12 at the Grand
Mosque of Mushir Tantawi in eastern Cairo. The funeral was
attended by a group of Sharif's relatives, friends and Egyptian
actors, his coffin draped in the Egyptian flag and a black shroud.
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April 10, 1947: #BOTD: #HBD! Bunny
Wailer, also known as Jah B, Bunny O'Riley and Bunny Livingston,
Black Jamaican singer-songwriter and percussionist, original
member of reggae group The Wailers along with Bob Marley and Peter
Tosh, considered one of the longtime standard-bearers of reggae
music (d. March 2, 2021) is #born Neville O'Riley Livingston in
Kingston, Jamaica. Neville O'Riley Livingston OM OJ is a
three-time Grammy award winner. He spent his earliest years in the
village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish. It was there that he
first met Bob Marley, and the two young boys befriended each other
quickly. The boys both came from single-parent families;
Livingston was brought up by his father, Marley by his mother.
Later, Wailer's father Thaddeus "Thaddy Shut" Livingston
lived with Marley's mother Cedella Booker in Trenchtown and had a
daughter with her named Pearl Livingston. Peter Tosh had a son,
Andrew Tosh, with Wailer's sister Shirley, making Andrew his
nephew. Bunny Wailer died at Andrews Memorial Hospital in
Kingston, Jamaica at the age of 73 of complications from a stroke
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Today, April 10, 2026
April 10, 1970: Music: Music History: The
History Of Rock And Roll (Rock & Roll, Rock-N-Roll, Rock 'N'
Roll, Rock 'N Roll, Rock N' Roll): British Rock And Roll (British
Rock & Roll, British Rock-N-Roll, British Rock 'N' Roll,
British Rock 'N Roll, British Rock N' Roll): The Swinging Sixties:
British Rock (Beat Music, British beat, Merseybeat): The Swinging
Sixties: British Rock (Beat Music, British beat, Merseybeat): The
British Invasion: The Beatles: Abbey Road, Let It Be And The
Separation Of The Beatles: -- Paul McCartney, in the midst of
business disagreements with his bandmates, announces that he is
leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons. He
filed a suit for the band's formal dissolution on December 31,
1970, and in March 1971 the court appointed a receiver to oversee
Apple's finances. An English court legally dissolved the Beatles'
partnership on January 9, 1975, though sporadic lawsuits against
their record company EMI, Klein, and each other persisted until
1989. In March 1969, McCartney married his first wife, Linda
Eastman, and in August, the couple had their first child, Mary,
named after his late mother. Abbey Road was the band's last
recorded album, and Martin suggested "a continuously moving
piece of music", urging the group to think symphonically.
McCartney agreed, but Lennon did not. They eventually compromised,
agreeing to McCartney's suggestion: an LP featuring individual
songs on side one, and a long medley on side two. In October 1969,
a rumour surfaced that McCartney had died in a car crash in 1966
and was replaced by a lookalike, but this was quickly refuted when
a November Life magazine cover featured him and his family,
accompanied by the caption "Paul is still with us". On
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Today, April 10, 2026
April 10, 1971: China: The History Of
China: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War
In Asia: Ping-Pong Diplomacy (Chinese: Pingpang Waijiao): -- In an
attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's
Republic Of China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long
visit. The event marked a thaw in Sino-American relations that
paved the way to a visit to Beijing by President Richard Nixon.
Ping-pong diplomacy (Chinese: Waijiao) refers to the exchange of
table tennis (ping-pong) players between the United States (US)
and People's Republic Of China (PRC) in the early 1970s, that
began during the 1971 World Table Tennis Championships in Nagoya,
Japan as a result of an encounter between players Glenn Cowan (of
the US) and Zhuang Zedong (of the PRC). The event marked a thaw in
Sino-American relations that paved the way to a visit to Beijing
by President Richard Nixon in 1972. The event has been seen as a
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April 10, 1972: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars:
The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict,
The Resistance War Against America): The Easter Offensive (The
1972 Spring-Summer Offensive (Vietnamese: Chien Dich Xuan-He
1972), The Red Fiery Summer (Mua He Do Lua)): Aerial Operations
And Battles Of The Vietnam War: The B-52 Bombings Of The Easter
Offensive: -- For the first time since November 1967, American
B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam. On March 30,
the Easter Offensive began after North Vietnamese forces cross
into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam. Officially
known as The 1972 Spring-Summer Offensive by North Vietnam and
NLF, or Red fiery summer as romanticized in South Vietnamese
literature, the Easter Offensive was a military campaign conducted
by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN, the regular army of North
Vietnam) against the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN, the
regular army of South Vietnam) and the United States military
between 30 March and 22 October 1972. This conventional invasion,
the largest offensive operation since 300,000 Chinese volunteers
had crossed the Yalu River into North Korea during the Korean War,
was a radical departure from previous North Vietnamese offensives.
The offensive was not designed to win the war outright but to gain
as much territory and destroy as many units of the ARVN as
possible, to improve the North's negotiating position as the Paris
Peace Accords drew towards a conclusion. On April 10, the U.S.
sent B-52 bombers to attack North Vietnam as a counter to the
Easter Offensive and to thwart North Vietnam's peace accord aims.
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Today, April 10, 2026
April 10: National Tamara Day: -- A day
dedicated to the name Tamara and also to the people who have that
name. Tamara is not that much of a common name these days. The
origin of the name can be traced to a term in Hebrew and Arabic,
meaning the fruit 'date' or the plant 'date palm.' There are more
than a thousand people in the U.S. that bear the name Tamara,
which are predominantly female. We invite you to join us as we
celebrate the existence of all the Tamaras in the world. The
history of the usage of Tamara as a name dates back to the era of
the Old Testament -- all of them beautiful, and one of them being
the ancestor of Jesus of Nazareth. Three women are named Tamar in
the Bible; 1) Tamar, King David's beautiful daughter, who was
raped by her half-brother Amnon, the firstborn son of David, only
to be killed in revernge by his half-brother Absalom in revenge;
2) Tamar, daughter of King David's son, Absalom, named her after
his beautiful sister Tamar whose rape he avenged; and 3) Tamar,
wife of Judah's first-born son Er, then his second-born son Onan
after Er's death; but after Onan's death, Tamar was forced to
remain in widowhood and thereby, despite her arden desire to the
contrary, childless; in revenge, she disguised herself as a shrine
prostitute, and conceived twin boys by Judah, Perez and Zerah; she
is the first woman listed in the genealogy of Jesus Christ, as she
is his great-grandmother many generations past through Tamar's son
Perez: "The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of
David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and
Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his
brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar..."
(Matthew 1:1-3). Shakespeare's play, Titus Andronicus, also has
one notable literary occurrence for the name "Tamora".
In this play, Shakespeare depicts Tamora as an ambitious and
hateful woman. Her sons raped and disfigured the daughter of Titus
Andronicus. But Tamora refused to help the girl with her children.
An enraged Titus killed her sons and baked a pie with their dead
bodies. He then served this pie to Tamara. As ultimate revenge,
Titus informs her that she has just eaten her son immediately
before killing her. The name Tamara is getting rarer with each
passing year. It has been one of the most common names in the
world for centuries. The name reached its peak in the last
century. The name itself is very old and has roots in Hebrew and
Arabic. Tamara was a popular name in the U.S. between the 1950s
and 1990s. But the popularity of the name has declined ever since.
There are many famous Tamaras throughout history. As we mentioned
before, the name Tamara originated in Hebrew. 'Tamar,' 'Temara,'
'Tamra,' 'Tamera,' and 'Tamora' are a few examples of the name
variations for Tamara. The word in Hebrew translates to the fruit
of a date plant or palm tree. For centuries, it was a fairly
common name in countries like Armenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the
Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary, North Macedonia, Poland, Russia,
Serbia, Slovenia, and Ukraine. Tamara is the namesake of the great
Russian prima ballerina of The Ballet Russe, Tamara Karsavina
(March 9, 1885 - May 26, 1978), who like her biblical predecessors
was renowned for her beauty.
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Today, April 10, 2026April 10: International Safety Pin Day:
-- This unofficial observance is dedicated to the simple but
clever and useful invention - safety pins. The safety pin is used
for a lot of things. For example, it is used to secure clothes
together, as a decoration, and is also worn as accessories. Walter
Hunt invented and patented the safety pin, and the truth is that
the design of this object has not changed much since its
invention. It is a day to celebrate the simple, useful invention
of Hunt. In April 1849, Walter Hunt, born in 1796, invented the
safety pin to pay a debt of 15 USD to a friend. Walter Hunt was an
American mechanic. Hunt did not get any real cash or fame from his
invention so he sold the patent to "W. R. Grace and Company"
for 400 USD. He paid his friend back with that money and pocketed
the remaining 385 USD. Hunt made the safety pin to improve the
'dress pin' and prevent injuries to fingers and other parts of the
body. It said that he made the safety pin with a brass wire of
about 8 inches in length. The basic design invented by Walter Hunt
in 1849 is still used today. Although the safety pin was invented
to fasten fabric and clothing, it is also used as an accessory, as
jewelry, and in place of rings for body piercings. Safety pins
have hundreds, if not thousands of uses. Some of them are pinning
together two pieces of clothing to sew, pinning together cloth
diapers, keeping cloth bags closed, decorating clothing, etc.
Walter Hunt came up with numerous inventions. He also invented a
repeating rifle, a fountain pen, and a knife sharpener. He also
invented the sewing machine, which was his most noteworthy
invention besides the safety pin. The truth is that he didn't
patent this invention because he thought it would take away jobs
from those who sewed by hand. Hunt often did not reap the full
economic benefit from their inventions. In 2015, this holiday was
originally called Safety Pin Day, and in 2017, it was often
referred to as International Safety Pin Day. Shortly after, it was
sometimes called National Safety Pin Day. In the 1970s, punk rock
culture started to use safety pins as earrings, body piercings,
and also on clothing!
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Today, April 10, 2026April 10: Encourage A Young Writer Day:
-- Most children are natural storytellers. Their vivid sense of
imagination and creativity allows them to come up with
extraordinary stories. Children who are avid readers tend to be
meticulous storytellers. Reading cultivates imaginations,
vocabulary, and discipline - three things that are crucial to
writing and storytelling. If you know a young person who loves to
read, it may be a sign of a great young writer. National Encourage
a Young Writer Day is a good time to talk to young writers about
their ideas and dreams. Encourage a Young Writer Day allows
budding and new writers to work on their writing. This day
inspires and motivates these emerging writers to follow their
passion and to practice their art. However, there is no specific
information on when and how this day came into existence. For the
longest time, it was assumed that writing had been invented in a
single civilization, in ancient Sumer specifically. This writing
system worked and was then passed on by traders or merchants
traveling across the world. However, the discovery of the scripts
of ancient Mesoamerica, far away from Middle Eastern sources,
proved that writing had been invented by multiple civilizations in
different periods. Scholars now recognize that writing may have
independently developed in at least four ancient civilizations -
Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and in the area of Southern Mexico, and
Guatemala. It was in ancient Egypt that the earliest solid
evidence of Egyptian writing differs in structure and style from
the Mesopotamian and must therefore have developed independently.
By 1300 B.C. there was evidence of a fully operational writing
system in late Shang-dynasty China. There are also several places
such as the Indus River Valley and Rapa Nui (Easter Island) where
writing may have been invented, but it remains doubtful. Although
these dates suggest that writing could have spread out from one
central point of origin, there is little evidence of any links
between these systems. Each system possesses unique qualities.
Very little about the origins of writing is known and for this
reason, it continues to be an exciting area of study.
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Today, April 10, 2026April 10: Golfer's Day: -- A yearly
celebration of not just the game of golf but also the people who
play and enjoy it. A possible source of origin of the word golf
can be the Dutch word 'kolf,' which is a kind of stick or club, or
it can be the Scottish word 'goulf,' which means to strike or
cuff. From whichever word it might have originated from, Golfer's
Day is best celebrated by playing with your loved ones and
spreading the joy of the game. Golf originated in Scotland from a
game played close to the royal capital of Edinburg. The earliest
form of golf used to be played by hitting a pebble over dunes
around tracks. King James IV of Scotland became the world's first
golfing monarch, and the popularity of the game soared throughout
the 16 Century. The game reached England through King Charles I,
and Mary Queen of Scots introduced the game to France when she
studied there. The first international golf match was hosted at
Leith near Edinburgh in 1682, and the Duke of York and George
Patterson represented Scotland and beat two English noblemen.
After the Gentlemen Golfers of Leith formed the first club in 1744
and set up an annual competition, then golf officially became a
sport. Rules were drafted by Duncan Forbes, which are still
somewhat followed. In 1764, the first-ever 18-hole course was
constructed at St Andrews, which established the standard for the
game. The club was honored by King William IV in 1834 with the
title of 'Royal & Ancient.' As the British Empire expanded, so
did golf. The first golf club outside Britain was in Bangalore,
India in 1870, which was followed by Royal Montreal, Cape Town in
1885, and St Andrew's of New York in 1888. The United States Golf
Association (USGA) was established in 1894, and by 1900 more than
1,000 golf clubs were formed throughout the U.S. The U.S. quickly
became the center of the professional game.
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Today, April 10, 2026April 10: The Salvation Army Founder's
Day: -- Observed at all Salvation Army outposts around the world
in honor of the April 10, 1829 birthday of Salvation Army founder
William Booth in Nottingham, England. The Salvation Army is an
international charitable organization and part of the universal
Christian Church. The Salvation Army offers various services
worldwide, including emergency response and social work. One of
its missions is to meet human needs without discrimination.
Founded by William Booth in 1865, The Salvation Army has spread
from London to many parts of the world and is now working in 132
countries with millions of members. William Booth was born on
April 10, 1829, in Nottingham in the U.K. Due to poor
circumstances, Booth was apprenticed to a pawnbroker by his father
when he was 13. Two years later, Booth experienced a religious
conversion. He started reading extensively and training himself in
writing and speaking and became a Methodist local preacher. Booth
was unemployed when his apprenticeship ended in 1848, and a year
later, he moved to London and found work with a pawnbroker. In
1851, Booth joined the Methodist Reform Church, and on his 23rd
birthday, he quit pawnbroking and became a full-time preacher at
their headquarters. In 1855, Booth married Catherine Mumford, a
member of the Methodist Reform Church. Booth and Catherine started
The Christian Revival Society in the East End of London in 1865,
which was later renamed the Christian Mission. Their focus was on
teaching people about the message of Jesus Christ in a way they
could relate to, by meeting wherever they saw fit while addressing
their material needs. They wanted to reach those rejected by the
traditional churches, including those impoverished and
disadvantaged. In 1878, The Christian Mission got its present
name, The Salvation Army. A year later, Salvationist Amos Shirley
unofficially worked for The Salvation Army and traveled to
Philadelphia in the U.S. After learning that, Booth decided to
send a small group - George Scott Railton and seven others - to
New York to formally begin The Salvation Army's work in 1880. In
the same year, The Salvation Army expanded to Australia. In 1881,
the first meetings in Paris were held by Booth's eldest daughter,
Catherine Booth-Clibborn, also known as la Marechale.
International expansion was quick and continued to other
countries. Booth's method was to try and work alongside people in
a culturally-appropriate way blending service with evangelism.
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Today, April 10, 2026April 10, 1969: #DOTD: #RIP: Harley Earl,
American pioneer of modern transportation design, coachbuilder
(someone who manufactures bodies for passenger-carrying vehicles),
industrial and automotive designer and business executive, initial
head of design at General Motors, the first top executive ever
appointed in design of a major corporation in American history,
eventually becoming General Motors vice president, pioneer of the
use of freeform sketching and hand sculpted clay models as
automotive design techniques, creator of the "concept car"
as both a tool for the design process and a clever marketing
device, the wraparound windshield, the hardtop sedan, factory
two-tone paint, tailfins, hidden headlamps, the "gunsight"
hood ornament, electric windows, wraparound bumpers and flush door
handles (b. November 22, 1893) #dies.of a stroke in West Palm
Beach, Florida at 75 years old. His remains were cremated, and his
ashes were scattered at sea near West Palm Beach, Florida. Harley
Earl was born Harley Jarvis Earl in Hollywood, California. Harley
Earl's 1938 Buick Y-Job was the first concept car (since all
experimental vehicles were called "X", Earl simply went
to the next letter in the alphabet to stand out, a practice still
used in the aircraft industry today), which had power-operated
hidden headlamps, a gunsight hood ornament, electric windows,
wraparound bumpers, flush door handles, and prefigured styling
cues used by Buick until the 1950s and the vertical waterfall
grille design still used by Buick today. He also started "Project
Opel", which eventually became the Chevrolet Corvette. During
World War II, he was an active contributor to the Allies' research
and development program in advancing the effectiveness of
camouflage. Earl began studies at Stanford University, but left
prematurely to work with, and learn from, his father at Earl
Automotive Works, a coachbuilding company founded in 1889 that
evolved from horse-drawn vehicles to custom bodies and customized
parts and accessories for automobiles. Earl began studies at
Stanford University, but left prematurely to work with, and learn
from, his father at Earl Automotive Works. By this time, the shop
was building custom bodies for Hollywood movie stars, including
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Tom Mix. Lawrence P. Fisher,
general manager of General Motors' Cadillac division, commissioned
Earl to design the 1927 LaSalle for Cadillac's companion marque.
The success of the LaSalle convinced General Motors president
Alfred P. Sloan to create the "Art and Color Section" of
General Motors, and to name Earl as its first director. Prior to
the establishment of the "Art and Color Section",
American automobile manufacturers did not assign any great
importance to the appearance of automobile bodies. Volume
manufacturers built bodies designed by engineers, guided only by
functionality and cost. Many luxury-car manufacturers, including
GM, did not make bodies at all, opting instead to ship chassis
assemblies to a coachbuilder of the buyer's choice. The executives
at General Motors at the time, including engineers, division
heads, and sales executives, viewed Earl's conceptual ideas as
flamboyant and unfounded. Earl struggled to legitimize his design
approach against the tradition- and production-oriented
executives. As head of the newly formed "Art and Color
Section" in 1927, he was initially referred to as one of the
"pretty picture boys", and his design studio as being
the "Beauty Parlor". In 1937, the "Art and Color
Section" was renamed the Styling Section. Sloan eventually
promoted Earl to vice president, making him, to the best of
Sloan's knowledge, the first styling person to be a VP at a large
corporation. After the early 1930s, Earl seldom drew sketches or
did design work himself, usually functioning as an overlord who
supervised GM stylists, although he would retain ultimate
authority over the styling department until his retirement in
1958. He once said in 1954, "My primary purpose for
twenty-eight years has been to lengthen and lower the American
automobile, at times in reality and always at least in
appearance." The extremely low and long American cars of the
1960s and 1970s show the extent to which Earl influenced an entire
industry and culture.
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Today, April 10, 2026April 10, 1958: Premieres: Film
Premieres: American Film Premieres: -- St. Louis Blues, an
American film broadly based on the life of "The Father Of The
Blues" W. C. Handy, premieres at the Fox Theatre in St.
Louis, Missouri, less than two weeks after Handy's death. It stars
jazz and blues greats Nat "King" Cole, Pearl Bailey, Cab
Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Eartha Kitt, and Barney Bigard, as well
as gospel singer Mahalia Jackson and actress Ruby Dee. The film's
soundtrack used over ten of Handy's songs including the title
song. In conjunction with the film, Cole recorded an album of W.
C. Handy compositions, arranged by Nelson Riddle, and Fitzgerald
incorporated "St. Louis Blues" into her concert
repertoire.
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Today, April 10, 2026April 10, 1954: #DOTD: #RIP: Auguste
Lumiere, French director and producer (b. October 19, 1862) #dies
in Besancon, France of unspecified causes, aged 91. He is buried
along with his brother Louis in a family tomb at the New
Guillotiere Cemetery in Lyon, France. Auguste Lumiere was born
Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumiere in Besancon, France. The
Lumiere Brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean, were
among the first and most important filmmakers in history. They
patented an improved cinematograph, which in contrast to Thomas
Edison's "peepshow" kinetoscope allowed simultaneous
viewing by multiple parties, inventing thereby the audience-based
movie show, the cinema show.
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Today, April 10, 2026April 10, 1938: #DOTD: #RIP: King Oliver,
African American jazz pioneer, cornet player and bandleader (b.
December 19, 1885) #dies in poverty of arteriosclerosis, an
illness he was too poor to afford treatment for, in a Savannah,
Georgia rooming house at the age of 56. His sister spent her rent
money to have his body brought to New York, where he was buried at
Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx. Armstrong and other loyal musician
friends were in attendance. King Oliver was born Joseph Nathan
Oliver in Aben, Louisiana. Better known as King Oliver or Joe
Oliver, he was particularly recognized for his playing style and
his pioneering use of mutes in jazz. Also a notable composer, he
wrote many tunes still played today, including "Dippermouth
Blues", "Sweet Like This", "Canal Street
Blues", and "Doctor Jazz". He was the mentor and
teacher of Louis Armstrong. His influence was such that Armstrong
claimed, "if it had not been for Joe Oliver, Jazz would not
be what it is today."
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Today, April 10, 2026April 10, 1962: #DOTD: #RIP: Stuart
Sutcliffe, Scottish painter and musician, best known as the
original bass guitarist for the Beatles (b. June 23, 1940) #dies
of an aneurysm in his brain's right hemisphere in Hamburg, Germany
in an ambulance on the way to the hospital at the age of 21. While
studying in Germany, Sutcliffe began experiencing severe headaches
and acute sensitivity to light. In April 1962, he collapsed in the
middle of an art class after complaining of head pains. German
doctors performed various tests, but were unable to determine the
exact cause of his headaches. He was born Stuart Fergusson Victor
Sutcliffe in Edinburgh, Scotland. He left the Beatles to pursue
his career as a painter, having previously attended the Liverpool
College of Art. Sutcliffe and John Lennon are credited with
inventing the name "Beetles", as they both liked Buddy
Holly's band, the Crickets. The band used this name for a while
until Lennon decided to change the name to "the Beatles",
from the word beat. As a member of the group when it was a
five-piece band, Sutcliffe is one of several people sometimes
referred to as the "Fifth Beatle.". When he performed
with the Beatles in Hamburg, he met photographer Astrid Kirchherr,
to whom he was later engaged. After leaving the Beatles, he
enrolled in the Hamburg College of Art, studying under future pop
artist Eduardo Paolozzi, who later wrote a report stating that
Sutcliffe was one of his best students. Sutcliffe earned other
praise for his paintings, which mostly explored a style related to
abstract expressionism.
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Today, April 10, 2026April 10, 1972: Aesthetics: The
Performing Arts: Music: Music History: Music Of The United States:
The History Of Rock And Roll (Rock & Roll, Rock-N-Roll, Rock
'N' Roll, Rock 'N Roll, Rock N' Roll): Record Releases: -- The
Raspberries release their self-titled debut album, featuring their
hit single "Go All The Way" which would be released in
July that year. It was their second highest-charting LP, reaching
No. 51 on the Billboard album chart, but it spent more weeks on
the chart than all of their other albums combined. The American
and Australian versions of this LP carried a scratch and sniff
sticker with a strong raspberry scent. It contained two charting
singles, "Don't Want to Say Goodbye", which reached No.
86, and their biggest hit, "Go All the Way", which
reached No. 5. The album was re-released onto CD as part of Power
Pop Vol. 1, also containing their second album, Fresh.
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Today, April 10, 2026April 10, 1978: #DOTD: #RIP: Long John
Nebel, pioneer paranormal talk show radio host (b. June 11, 1911)
#dies of prostate cancer in Manhattan, New York City, aged 66. His
burial details are not publicly disclosed. His Mutual radio
network time slot was taken over by Larry King in January of that
year; his show on WOR, called "Partyline", was handed to
James Randi, skeptic and frequent guest on Nebel's show over the
years. Long John Nebel was born John Zimmerman in Chicago,
Illinois. From the mid-1950s until his death in 1978, "Long
John" Nebel was a hugely popular, influential all-night New
York City talk radio show host with millions of regular listeners.
He originated the overnight UFO and paranormal radio talk show
format, and had a fanatically loyal following to his syndicated
program, which dealt mainly with anomalous phenomena, UFOs, and
other offbeat topics. Nebel's format paved the way for later radio
hosts, including Art Bell, George Noory of Coast to Coast AM,
Hilly Rose, Jeff Rense, and Clyde Lewis, all of whom have
broadcast shows on paranormal topics. Nebel also used one of the
first tape delay systems in radio, using seven-second delay to
give engineers a chance to edit unacceptable language before
broadcast. Nebel was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He
dropped out of school after the eighth grade, but he was an avid
reader throughout his life, and he was conversant on many topics.
Rumor had it that he was the son of a physician and ran away with
a circus as a youngster. According to his own account in The Way
Out World (1961), Nebel moved to New York City "around 1930",
at the age of 19. His first job there was usher in the New York
Paramount Theater. Nebel pursued a number of careers in his young
adulthood (including a long period as a freelance photographer and
a stint as a sidewalk salesman) before establishing the successful
Long John's Auctions, an auction and consignment store in New
Jersey. At his auction barn in New Jersey, he was billed as "Long
John, the gab and gavel man", and people would attend just
for an evening's entertainment. The nickname "Long John
Nebel" had several sources: "Long John" was a
nickname for his tall, slender build (he stood 6'4" and never
weighed more than about 160 pounds. Nebel did not seek a career in
radio until around 1954, when he was 43 years old. In 1972, Nebel
married the former pin-up model Candy Jones, who became the
co-host of his show. Her controversial claims of having been a
victim of CIA mind-control influenced the direction of the program
during its last six years on the air. In the mid-1950s, radio
throughout the United States was floundering and trying to
redefine itself after the explosive popularity of television. Over
several years, Nebel had become friends with many people at
various New York radio stations when he bought commercial time to
advertise his auction house. WOR, one of New York's leading
stations, faced poor ratings in 1954 when Nebel proposed an
interview show. The format, as Donald Bain writes, "would be
devoted to discussing strange and unexplained topics". WOR's
management was not especially impressed by Nebel's idea. However,
deciding they had little to lose (following WOR's failed foray
into broadcasting facsimile editions of the morning paper during
the early morning hours), WOR offered him a midnight to 5:30 am
time slot, the poorest-rated hours. Building on the modest fame of
his auction house (and also hoping to generate more business), he
used the same name, Long John, when he went on radio. To the
surprise of WOR's management, Nebel's show was a quick success
among New York's night-owls and early risers. Unidentified flying
objects were discussed almost daily, alongside topics such as
voodoo, witchcraft, parapsychology, hypnotism, conspiracy
theories, and ghosts. Perhaps fittingly for an overnight show, one
of Nebel's sponsors was No-Doz caffeine pills. Within a few months
Nebel was getting not only high ratings, but press attention from
throughout the United States for his distinctive and in many ways
unprecedented program (WOR's powerful signal assured that Nebel's
show was broadcast to over half of the United States' population).
Bain notes that some listeners were put off by his "grating,
often vicious manner", but many more adored him because of
(or in spite of) his abrasive style. Keith writes: "Though
Nebel could be brusque and even imperious in the phone, he was
always a sympathetic listener and compasionate host." WOR was
worried about some of Nebel's guests or callers using profanity on
the air. Nebel used one of the first tape delay systems in radio,
giving engineers a chance to edit any unacceptable language before
it was broadcast. In 1956, engineer Russell Tinklepaugh invented
the system Nebel used. He built a modified Ampex 300 tape deck
with an additional set of heads. The deck was able to record on a
loop of 1/4" tape, and carry the tape around the perimeter of
the deck to be played on the second set of heads. This resulted in
a delay of several seconds, enough time to hit the "stop"
button to avoid airing foul language. (ref.ex-WOR engineer, Frank
Cernese) In 1962, WNBC offered Nebel more than 100K USD per year,
a near record sum for a radio personality at the time, to begin
broadcasting from their station, and he accepted the offer. He
continued there until 1973, when WNBC, facing sliding ratings,
decided to switch to an all rock music format. After a protracted
battle with station management, Nebel refused to change the
content of his show and resigned from the station in protest.
According to Bain, one anonymous station employee insisted that
the management at WNBC "deliberately fucked up [Nebel's]
career" by spreading unfounded rumors about the format switch
and Nebel's reaction to it. Nebel was quickly hired by WMCA,
where, from 1973 to 1977, he continued his program, virtually
unchanged from WNBC. The show was still popular, although his
ratings on the less powerful WMCA were not as high as they had
been at WNBC. At WMCA, John was constantly pestered by prank
callers who often told him "Yes John, I'm coming down there,
and I'm going to bash your head!" Beginning in 1977, Nebel's
show was broadcast nationwide over the Mutual Broadcasting System
(MBS), replacing Mutual's national distribution of Herb Jepko's
radio talk show. Nebel wrote two books that dealt with some of the
most interesting of his guests. The Way Out World, published in
1961, covered his years at WOR and included UFO contactees, a
stage magician, the Shaver Mystery, Edgar Cayce, and much more,
which Nebel said he had gleaned from his "twenty thousand
hours of interviewing and research". His second book, The
Psychic World Around Us, co-written with Sanford M. Teller and
published in 1969, dealt more specifically with tales of the
paranormal and the guests whom he had interviewed while at WNBC.
Nebel had had a short-lived marriage early in his life, and had a
daughter Jackie from that marriage. In the early 60's he was
married to Margaret Dallas, but he was single again in 1972 when
he met and married the fashion model Candy Jones. She had been one
of the favorite pin up girls of the World War II era. The marriage
took place after a whirlwind, month-long courtship, although Nebel
and Jones had met briefly when Nebel was a photographer decades
earlier. Jones became the co-host of Nebel's show almost
immediately, and continued in this role until his death. Due to
Jones's mood swings and shifts in personality, and some unusual
and otherwise-unexplainable events in her life, Nebel said that he
had come to suspect she had been a victim of a CIA mind control
plot. Her story, with its conspiracy theory overtones, had a
definite influence on the content of Nebel's radio show during its
final six years. Although long plagued with heart disease, he was
diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1971. Nebel sought various
treatments, but by the mid-1970s, he was in very poor health. He
continued broadcasting, however, usually six nights per week, with
Candy Jones as his co-host. Nebel died in 1978 and his Mutual
network slot was taken over by Larry King. His show on WOR, called
"Partyline", was handed to James Randi, skeptic and
frequent guest on Nebel's show over the years. Jackie Gleason was
a frequent guest. On one show, Gleason offered US 100K USD to
anyone with physical proof of aliens visiting Earth (Gleason later
upped the amount to US 1M USD but it was never claimed). Another
memorable show found Gleason undertaking a sharp, occasionally
even savage, debate with publisher Gray Barker. Gleason took Gray
to task for presenting largely unsubstantiated tales of the Men in
Black and contactees as factual. Nebel's commercials were often as
entertaining as the program itself. Nebel was a master story
teller who could spin yarns around the virtues of his sponsors.
Commercials often ran several minutes. His seven-minute commercial
for a pornographic movie ("It Happened in Hollywood")
was unforgettable. Apparently, he had not reviewed the copy before
reading it cold on the air and he fell victim to uncontrollable
fits of laughter throughout his long and fruitless attempt to read
it. Another long running sponsor was Ho-Ho's Chinese Restaurant -
"Ho means Good, Ho-Ho means Good-Good". Flying saucers
were in the news regularly throughout the 1950s and 1960s and were
a frequent topic on Nebel's show. Guests related to this subject
included retired Marine Corps Major Donald Keyhoe, contactees
George Adamski and George Van Tassel, artist Paulina Peavy, and
skeptics like Arthur C. Clarke and Lester del Rey. Nebel discussed
the so-called Shaver Mystery, the Flatwoods monster, the Nazca
Lines, and many other uncommon subjects. Nebel gave a forum to
Otis T. Carr, an Oklahoman who claimed to have discovered the
secret of flying saucer propulsion, by studying the works of
Nikola Tesla. With some of his regular panelists, Nebel journeyed
to Oklahoma City for the unveiling of Carr's saucer. (Carr was
later convicted of fraud and jailed after he took several hundred
thousand dollars from investors, and never produced his
prototype.) Nebel was not above a few pranks, all in the name of
showmanship and ratings: on one occasion, for example, he colluded
with a friend to offer testimony supporting a guest's claims of
astral projection. Nebel spent weeks on his show developing a tale
for his audience that the Empire State Building was rotated on
giant ball bearings in the wee hours of the morning. At first
Nebel said the motion was almost imperceptible. As the prank
developed over time, Nebel began telling callers that if they
visited the Empire State Building very late at night, they would
find the shops at ground level had switched location to the block
around the corner. Nebel also was fond of telling his audience
that the finest candle wicks were grown on "wick farms"
located in the Midwest. The fact that Nebel's second wife, Candy
Jones claimed to have been the subject of CIA experiments in
mind-control was discounted as a prank by those who pointed out
his history of promoting hoaxes. Nebel, on the other hand, said
that he believed what Jones had revealed to him under hypnosis,
and never believed that her story was false in any way. Jackie
Gleason wrote in his introduction to Bain's biography of Nebel:
"Why is [Nebel] so strangely entertaining?... because the
best entertainment is entertainment that opens your mind and tells
you the world is bigger than you thought it was." Radio
historian Michael C. Keith wrote: "Few people before or since
have brought to all-night radio the kind of ingenuity, originality
and variety that Nebel did. He represents one of post-World War II
radio's creative high points and another example of the special
nature of overnight programming... He would come to be regarded as
one of after-hours radio's true pioneers." Nebel was a
formative influence on talk radio: Donald Bain noted that in the
early 1970s: "Fledgling (radio) announcers at broadcasting
schools around the country were played tapes of Nebel shows as
part of their course study." Recordings of Nebel's shows have
circulated among fans of esoterica for decades.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: DJ
Madness! 1950s-60s-70s Radio Shows DVD, MP3 Download, USB Drive
Today, April 10, 2026April 10, 1958: #DOTD: #RIP: Chuck
Willis, knicknamed "The King Of The Stroll" for his
performance of the 1950s dance "The Stroll", African
American blues, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll pioneer,
singer and songwriter, best known for his biggest hits "C. C.
Rider" (1957) and "What Am I Living For" (1958),
both of which reached No.1 on the Billboard R & B chart just
before he died (b. January 31, 1926) #dies of peritonitis in
Chicago, Illinois at the age of 32. Willis had suffered from
stomach ulcers for many years, and was known to drink a lot. He is
buried at South-View Cemetery, a historic African-American-founded
cemetery located approximately 15 minutes from downtown Atlanta,
Georgia. Chuck Willis was born Harold Willis in Atlanta, Georgia.
He was spotted at a talent contest by Atlanta radio disc jockey
Zenas Sears, who became his manager and helped him to sign with
Columbia Records in 1951. After one single, Willis began recording
on a Columbia subsidiary, Okeh. During his stay at Okeh, he
established himself as a popular R & B singer and songwriter,
performing material that he wrote himself. In 1956, he moved to
Atlantic Records where he had immediate success with "It's
Too Late", "Juanita" and "Love Me Cherry".
His most successful recording was "C.C. Rider", which
topped the US Billboard R & B chart in 1957 and also crossed
over and sold well in the pop market. Jerry Wexler said it was
Willis's surprising idea to "do an old standard" instead
of one of his own songs. "C.C. Rider" was a remake of a
twelve-bar blues, performed by Ma Rainey in Atlanta before Willis
was born. Its relaxed beat, combined with a mellow vibraphone
backing and chorus, inspired the emergence of the popular dance,
The Stroll. When performing on stage Willis and his group would do
this step side to side. Dick Clark played "C. C. Rider"
on American Bandstand, and "The Stroll" became a popular
dance. Willis's follow-up was "Betty and Dupree",
another "stroll" song and a similar "old standard",
which also did well. Wexler said that Dick Clark used "Betty
and Dupree" on American Bandstand to accompany "The
Stroll," and that is how Willis became known as "King Of
The Stroll." Willis' single "Going To Rhe River", a
song by Dave Bartholomew and Fats Domino, was a prototype for his
"stroll" sound, reaching No.4 on the R & B chart.
Willis performed wearing a turban (a gimmick suggested to him by
his friend Screamin' Jay Hawkins) and was also known as the "Sheik
of Shake." In the early 1950s he hosted and performed on a
weekly Saturday night television show in Atlanta, which featured
guest artists such as Ray Charles and Sam Cooke who were passing
through town. Zenas Sears said that Willis was a better songwriter
than a performer, but also said, "On the TV show ... Chuck
would do five or six different numbers every week. He moved very
well, he handled himself very well and put everyone at ease."
He was a solid, if not spectacular, performer on the road as well,
and "was one of the few artists who would treat a band
properly," according to Roy Gaines, who was Willis's
bandleader and guitarist. Willis approached songwriting with
painstaking craftsmanship and the result was literate, soulful and
melancholy. He did not introduce a song in the studio until it was
a polished product and fully worked out in his mind. He used a
variety of methods. Zenas Sears said Willis would drive around in
the car singing into a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Sears said, "If
he'd lived he would have been recognized for that [his
songwriting]." Roy Gaines recalled, "He'd lock up in a
hotel room and wouldn't see anyone for 3-4 days or a week. When he
wrote 'It's Too Late,' he was in his room for a week." Ruth
Brown, who toured with Willis, said he would write on yellow legal
pads. Brown said, "I asked him, because he had such a good
song going, I said, 'Chuck, why don't you write me a tune? And he
did. He wrote, "Oh What a Dream".'" Jerry Wexler
said Willis would bring a full set of lyrics into the studio and
then work out the arrangements with the band. Zenas Sears said,
"[N]o one helped him with his songs. He always wrote a great
deal." His death occurred while at the peak of his career,
just after the release of his last single, "What Am I Living
For", backed by "Hang Up My Rock and Roll Shoes".
"Hang Up My Rock & Roll Shoes" was actually the
A-side of the single but, upon his death, "What Am I Living
For" became the more popular of the two songs. "What Am
I Living For" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a
gold disc. It was also the top R & B disc of 1958. This was
the first rock and roll record released in stereo, "engineered
by Tom Dowd of Atlantic Records". When Willis died, he owed a
lot of money to the US government, because, according to Zenas
Sears, "he paid the band out of his own pocket without ever
deducting taxes. ... When he died, his wife had the house, she had
the fur coats and the Cadillac, but there was no money." An
early Okeh hit, "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)"
became his most widely covered song with versions by Ruth Brown,
Little Richard, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, James Brown, and Delaney
and Bonnie. It was also used as the title of an episode of "Grey's
Anatomy" (Season 7, episode 13, 2011). His hit, the blues
ballad "It's Too Late" was covered by other artists,
including Otis Redding, Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly and the Crickets,
Ted Taylor (1969 single), Freddie King, Derek and the Dominos and
the Jerry Garcia Band. In 2005, Redding's version was heavily
sampled by Kanye West on Late Registration's "Gone".
Elvis Presley covered "I Feel So Bad" and "C. C.
Rider". The Five Keys and Peaches and Herb had hits with
"Close Your Eyes", and Ruth Brown and Conway Twitty had
hits with "Oh What a Dream". The Band covered "Hang
Up My Rock and Roll Shoes" on their 1972 live album Rock of
Ages. Willis's cousin was Chick Willis.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Mexican Revolution 1910-1920 DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, April 10, 2026April 10, 1919: #DOTD: #RIP: Emiliano
Zapata, Mexican Revolution general, leading figure in the Mexican
Revolution, the main leader of the peasant revolution in the state
of Morelos, founder of the Liberation Army of the South (ELS)
commonly known as the Zapatistas, and the inspiration of the
agrarian movement called Zapatismo (b. August 8, 1879) #dies when
he is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos. He
was double-crossed by Col. Jesus Guajardo, who pretended to defect
from the command of Gen. Pablo Gonzalez over to Zapata's side, in
order to trick Zapata into a brutal ambush by Gonzalez's forces as
Zapata went to meet Guajardo at the Hacienda de San Juan in
Chinameca as Zapata went to meet Guajardo. Emiliano Zapata was
born Emiliano Zapata Salazar in the rural village of Anenecuilco
in Morelos State, where peasant communities were under increasing
pressure from the small landowning class who monopolized land and
water resources for sugar cane production with the support of
dictator Porfirio Diaz. Zapata early on participated in political
movements against Diaz and the landowning hacendados, and when the
Revolution broke out in 1910 he was positioned as a central leader
of the peasant revolt in Morelos. Cooperating with a number of
other peasant leaders he formed the Liberation Army of the South,
of which he soon became the undisputed leader. Zapata's forces
contributed to the fall of Diaz, defeating the Federal Army in the
Battle of Cuautla, but when the revolutionary leader Francisco I.
Madero became president he disavowed the role of the Zapatistas,
denouncing them as simple bandits. In November 1911, Zapata
promulgated the Plan de Ayala which called for substantial land
reforms, redistributing lands to the peasants. Madero sent the
Federal Army to root out the Zapatistas in Morelos. Madero's
generals employed a scorched earth policy, burning villages and
forcibly removing their inhabitants, and drafting many men into
the Army or sending them to forced labor camps in southern Mexico.
This strengthened Zapata's standing among the peasants, and Zapata
was able to drive the forces of Madero led by Victoriano Huerta
out of Morelos. In a coup against Madero in February 1913, Huerta
took power in Mexico, but a coalition of Constitutionalist forces
in northern Mexico led by Venustiano Carranza, Alvaro Obregon and
Francisco "Pancho" Villa ousted him in July 1914 with
the support of Zapata's troops. Zapata did not recognize the
authority that Carranza asserted as leader of the revolutionary
movement, continuing his adherence to the Plan de Ayala. In the
aftermath of the revolutionaries' victory over Huerta, they
attempted to sort out power relations in the Convention of
Aguascalientes. Zapata and Villa broke with Carranza, and Mexico
descended into civil war among the winners. Dismayed with the
alliance with Villa, Zapata focused his energies on rebuilding
society in Morelos which he now controlled, instituting the land
reforms of the Plan de Ayala. As Carranza consolidated his power
and defeated Villa in 1915, Zapata initiated guerrilla warfare
against the Carrancistas, who in turn invaded Morelos, employing
once again scorched-earth tactics to oust the Zapatista rebels.
Zapata once again retook Morelos in 1917 and held most of the
state against Carranza's troops until he was killed in an ambush
in April 10, 1919 by government forces in Morelos. He was
double-crossed by Col. Jesus Guajardo, who pretended to defect
from the command of Gen. Pablo Gonzalez over to Zapata's side, in
order to trick Zapata into a brutal ambush by Gonzalez's forces as
Zapata went to meet Guajardo at the Hacienda de San Juan in
Chinameca as Zapata went to meet Guajardo. Article 27 of the 1917
Mexican Constitution was drafted in response to his agrarian
demands. After his death, Zapatista generals aligned with Obregon
against Carranza and helped drive Carranza from power. In 1920,
Zapatistas managed to obtain powerful posts in the governance of
Morelos after Carranza's fall. They instituted many of the land
reforms envisioned by Zapata in Morelos.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Winston
Churchill: The Valiant Years TV Series DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, April 10, 2026April 10, 1942: World War II: The Pacific
War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Pacific Theater Of World War II):
The Indian Ocean In World War II: The Indian Ocean Raid (Operation
C, The Battle of Ceylon [The Battle Of Sri Lanka]): -- The Indian
Ocean Raid, a naval sortie carried out by the Imperial Japanese
Navy (IJN) from March 31 to April 10, 1942, concludes. Japanese
aircraft carriers under Admiral Chuichi Nagumo struck Allied
shipping and naval bases around British Ceylon (then a British
Crown colony, now present-day Sri Lanka), but failed to locate and
destroy the bulk of the British Eastern Fleet. The Eastern Fleet,
commanded by Admiral Sir James Somerville, was forewarned by
intelligence of the raid, and sailed from its bases prior to it;
despite this intelligence, the Eastern Fleet's attempt to attack
the Japanese was frustrated by poor tactical intelligence.
Following The Indian Ocean Raid, the British expected a major
Japanese offensive in the Indian Ocean. The Eastern Fleet
relocated its main base to East Africa, from which it regularly
deployed carrier task forces into the central and eastern Indian
Oceans, and Ceylon was reinforced, but Somerville kept his fast
carrier division, Force A, "...in Indian waters, to be ready
to deal with any attempt by the enemy to command those waters with
light forces only." However, the Japanese had no short-term
plans to follow up on their success, and within the year their
preoccupation with operations in the Pacific made it impossible
for them to do so. The Easter Sunday Raid of April 5, 1942 was the
most significant part of The Indian Ocean Raid, when Imperial
Japanese Navy launched a carrier-based air attack on Colombo,
Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka); the Royal Navy heavy cruisers HMS
Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire were sunk by Japanese Aichi D3A dive
bombers (Navy designation "Type 99 Carrier Bomber";
Allied reporting name "Val", which sank more Allied
warships than any other Axis aircraft) southwest of the island;
port and civilian facilities were damaged, and other ships, both
in harbour and dispersed on the ocean, were sunk or damaged. The
attacking Japanese aircraft were met by fighters of the Royal Air
Force's (RAF) 222 Group, commanded by Air Vice-Marshal John
D'Albiac, and the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA), and
anti-aircraft artillery. The Japanese objective was to destroy the
Ceylon-based British Eastern Fleet in harbour, but the British,
due to advance warning from intelligence in March 1942, and air
reconnaissance during the raid, preemptively dispersed their
shipping from the harbours before the attacks to avoid damage. As
a result of this intelligence, the bulk of the British Eastern
Fleet was not found and survived. The raid demonstrated Ceylon's
vulnerability, obviating that British forces were not prepared to
face further Japanese carrier raids; accordinly, The Eastern Fleet
relocated its main base to East Africa, and Ceylon was reinforced.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Ratlines WWII Escape Routes For Fascist War Criminals MP4 Download
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Today, April 10, 2026April 10, 1941; The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Mediterranean And Middle East Theater Of World
War II (The Mediterranean Theater Of War) The Balkans Campaign
(World War II): The Invasion Of Yugoslavia (The April War,
Operation 25): The Independent State Of Croatia (Serbo-Croatian:
Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska [NDH]): -- The founding of The
Independent State of Croatia (Serbo-Croatian: Nezavisna Drzava
Hrvatska, NDH) by the Nazi-affiliated Ustashe Party of Croatia
occurs, and on April 16, 1941, the Ustashe are put in charge of
this new Croatian state by the Axis powers after Operation 25, the
Nazi Invasion Of Yugoslavia, is effected. The day before, Ante
Pavelic came to power over Croatia in the new Ustasha state under
the umbrella of German and Italian forces as German Fuhrer Adolf
Hitler and Italian Duce Benito Mussolini granted recognition to
the Croatian state and declared that their governments would be
glad to participate with the Croatian government in determining
its frontiers. The Independent State of Croatia (Serbo-Croatian:
Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska, NDH; German: Unabhangiger Staat
Kroatien; Italian: Stato indipendente di Croazia) was a World War
II-era puppet state of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. It was
established in parts of occupied Yugoslavia on 10 April 1941,
after the invasion by the Axis powers. Its territory consisted of
most of modern-day Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as
some parts of modern-day Serbia and Slovenia, but also excluded
many Croat-populated areas in Dalmatia (until late 1943), Istria,
and Medimurje regions (which today are part of Croatia). During
its entire existence, the NDH was governed as a one-party state by
the fascist Ustasa organization. The Ustase was led by the
Poglavnik, Ante Pavelic. The regime targeted Serbs, Jews and Roma
as part of a large-scale campaign of genocide, as well as
anti-fascist or dissident Croats and Bosnian Muslims. According to
Stanley G. Payne, "crimes in the NDH were proportionately
surpassed only by Nazi Germany, the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and
several of the extremely genocidal African regimes." In the
territory controlled by the Independent State of Croatia, between
1941 and 1945, there existed 22 concentration camps. The largest
camp was Jasenovac. Two camps, Jastrebarsko and Sisak, held only
children. The state was officially a monarchy after the signing of
the Laws of the Crown of Zvonimir on 15 May 1941. Appointed by
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta
initially refused to assume the crown in opposition to the Italian
annexation of the Croat-majority populated region of Dalmatia,
annexed as part of the Italian irredentist agenda of creating a
Mare Nostrum ("Our Sea"). He later briefly accepted the
throne due to pressure from Victor Emmanuel III and was titled
Tomislav II of Croatia, but never moved from Italy to reside in
Croatia. From the signing of the Treaties of Rome on May 18, 1941
until the Italian capitulation on September 8, 1943, the state was
a territorial condominium of Germany and Italy. In its judgement
in the Hostages Trial, the Nuremberg Military Tribunal concluded
that NDH was not a sovereign state. According to the Tribunal,
"Croatia was at all times here involved an occupied country".
In 1942, Germany suggested Italy take military control of all of
Croatia out of a desire to redirect German troops from Croatia to
the Eastern Front. Italy, however, rejected the offer as it did
not believe that it could on its own handle the unstable situation
in the Balkans. After the ousting of Mussolini and the Kingdom of
Italy's armistice with the Allies, Tomislav II abdicated from his
Croatian throne: the NDH on 10 September 1943 declared that the
Treaties of Rome were null and void and annexed the portion of
Dalmatia that had been ceded to Italy. The NDH attempted to annex
Zara (modern-day Zadar, Croatia), which had been a recognized
territory of Italy since 1920 and long an object of Croatian
irredentism, but Germany did not allow it.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Auschwitz And The Allies 2 Part TV Series DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, April 10, 2026April 10, 1944: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Holocaust (Shoah): The Holocaust In Poland:
Auschwitz Concentration Camp (KL Auschwitz, KZ Auschwitz): --
Rudolf Vrba (alt. Urba) and Alfred Wetzler escape from
Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Vrba gave a detailed account of his
escape in the two part TV documentary series "Auschwitz And
The Allies". Rudolf Vrba (born Walter Rosenberg; September
11, 1924 - March 27, 2006) was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as
a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration
camp in German-occupied Poland. He became known for having escaped
from the camp in April 1944, at the height of the Holocaust, and
for having co-written a detailed report about the mass murder that
was taking place there. Distribution of the report by George
Mantello in Switzerland is credited with having halted the mass
deportation of Hungary's Jews to Auschwitz in July 1944, saving
more than 200,000 lives. After the war Vrba trained as a
biochemist, working mostly in England and Canada. Vrba and fellow
escapee Alfred Wetzler fled Auschwitz three weeks after German
forces invaded Hungary and shortly before the SS began mass
deportations of Hungary's Jewish population to the camp. The
information the men dictated to Jewish officials when they arrived
in Slovakia on April 24, 1944, which included that new arrivals in
Auschwitz were being gassed and not "resettled" as the
Germans maintained, became known as the Vrba-Wetzler report. When
the War Refugee Board published it with considerable delay in
November 1944, the New York Herald Tribune described it as "the
most shocking document ever issued by a United States government
agency". While it confirmed material in earlier reports from
Polish and other escapees, the historian Miroslav Karny wrote that
it was unique in its "unflinching detail". There was a
delay of several weeks before the report was distributed widely
enough to gain the attention of governments. Mass transports of
Hungary's Jews to Auschwitz began on May 15, 1944 at a rate of
12,000 people a day. Most went straight to the gas chambers. Vrba
argued until the end of his life that the deportees might have
refused to board the trains, or at least that their panic would
have disrupted the transports, had the report been distributed
widely and sooner. From late June and into July 1944, material
from the Vrba-Wetzler report appeared in newspapers and radio
broadcasts in the United States and Europe, particularly in
Switzerland, prompting world leaders to appeal to Hungarian regent
Miklos Horthy to halt the deportations. On 2 July American and
British forces bombed Budapest, and on 6 July, in an effort to
exert his sovereignty, Horthy ordered that the deportations should
end. By then, over 434,000 Jews had been deported in 147
trains-almost the entire Jewish population of the Hungarian
countryside-but another 200,000 in Budapest were saved.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: An
Ocean Apart: US-UK Relations TV Series + Profumo Affair MP4 DVD
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Today, April 10, 2026April 10, 1957: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Suez Crisis
(The Second Arab-Israeli War, The Tripartite Aggression, The Sinai
War): -- The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being
closed for three months. The Suez Crisis or the Second
Arab-Israeli War, also named the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab
world, and Operation Kadesh or Sinai War in Israel, was an
invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United
Kingdom and France. The aims were to regain Western control of the
Suez Canal and to remove Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser,
who had just nationalized the canal. After the fighting had
started, political pressure from the United States, the Soviet
Union, and the United Nations led to a withdrawal by the three
invaders. The episode humiliated Great Britain and France and
strengthened Nasser. On October 29, 1956, Israel invaded the
Egyptian Sinai. Britain and France issued a joint ultimatum to
cease fire, which was ignored. On November 5, Britain and France
landed paratroopers along the Suez Canal. The Egyptian forces were
defeated, but they did block the canal to all shipping. It later
became clear that the Israeli invasion and the subsequent
Anglo-French attack had been planned beforehand by the three
countries. The three allies had attained a number of their
military objectives, but the canal was now useless. Heavy
political pressure from the United States and the USSR led to a
withdrawal. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower had strongly
warned Britain not to invade; after their intervention, he
threatened serious damage to the British financial system by
selling the US government's pound sterling bonds. These events
signified the end of Great Britain as one of the world's major
powers. The Suez Canal was closed from October 1956 until March
1957, and was reopened for all shipping on April 10. Israel
fulfilled some of its objectives, such as attaining freedom of
navigation through the Straits of Tiran, which Egypt had blocked
to Israeli shipping since 1950.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Pirates
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Today, April 10, 2026April 10, 1606: The Colonial History Of
The United States: The British Colonization Of The Americas: The
Colony Of Virginia: The London Company (The Virginia Company Of
London, The Charter Of The Virginia Company Of London): -- James I
of England establishes by royal charter The Virginia Company Of
London with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in
North America. The London Company was an English joint stock
company that was granted territory from the eastern coast of
America from the 34th parallel (Cape Fear) north to the 41st
parallel (in Long Island Sound). As part of the Virginia Company
And Colony, the London Company owned a large portion of Atlantic
and Inland Canada. The company was permitted by its charter to
establish a 100-square-mile (260 km2) settlement within this area.
The portion of the company's territory north of the 38th parallel
was shared with the Plymouth Company, with the stipulation that
neither company found a colony within 100 miles of each other.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Scams,
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Today, April 10, 2026April 10, 2024: #DOTD: O. J. Simpson,
American football player who played in the National Football
League (NFL) for 11 seasons, primarily with the Buffalo Bills,
actor, media personality and convicted criminal, presumed murderer
of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman (b. July 9, 1947) #dies of
cancer in Las Vegas, Nevada, aged 76. His remains were cremated,
and the ashes given to his children. O. J. Simpson was born
Orenthal James Simpson in San Francisco, California, the son of
Eunice (nee Durden), an orderly at a psychiatric ward, and Jimmy
Lee Simpson, a custodian for a Federal Reserve Bank and a private
club, a cook and a well-known drag queen in the Bay Area who later
in life announced that he was gay, dying of AIDS in 1986. Simpson
is regarded as one of the greatest running backs of all time, but
his professional success was overshadowed by his trial and
controversial acquittal for the murders of his former wife Nicole
and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994. Simpson played college
football for the USC Trojans, where he won the Heisman Trophy as a
senior, and was selected first overall by the Bills in the 1969
NFL/AFL draft. During his nine seasons with the Bills, he received
five consecutive Pro Bowl and first-team All-Pro selections from
1972 to 1976. He also led the league in rushing yards four times,
in rushing touchdowns twice, and in points scored in 1975. Simpson
became the first NFL player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a
season, earning him NFL Most Valuable Player (MVP), and is the
only NFL player to do so in a 14-game regular season. He holds the
record for the single-season yards-per-game average at 143.1.
After retiring with the San Francisco 49ers in 1979, he acted in
film and television, became a sportscaster, and was a spokesman
for a wide variety of products and companies, notably Hertz. He
was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983 and the
Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985. In June 1994, Simpson was
charged with murdering Brown and Goldman after they were stabbed
to death in Los Angeles. His eight-month murder trial received
international publicity and exacerbated racial divisions in the
U.S., culminating with his acquittal in October 1995. Three years
later, he was found liable for the murders in a civil suit from
the victims' families but paid little the 33.5M USD judgment. In
2007, Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, and charged with
armed robbery and kidnapping. He was convicted the following year
and sentenced to 33 years' imprisonment with a minimum of nine
years without parole. Simpson served his sentence at the Lovelock
Correctional Center in rural Nevada until being paroled and
released in 2017. For the remainder of his life, he resided in
Florida and Nevada.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: WABC
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Today, April 10, 2026April 10, 2003: #DOTD: #RIP: Little Eva,
African American singer (b. June 29, 1943) #dies of cervical
cancer in Kinston, North Carolina, at the age of 59. She iis
buried in a small cemetery in Belhaven, North Carolina. Boyd's
gravesite was sparsely marked until July 2008, when a report by
WRAL-TV of Raleigh, North Carolina, highlighted deteriorating
conditions at the cemetery and efforts by the city of Belhaven to
have it restored. A simple white cross had marked the site until a
new gravestone was unveiled in November of that year. Boyd's new
grey gravestone has the image of a steam locomotive prominently
engraved on the front and the epitaph reads: "Singing with
the Angels". There is great controversy over her iconic
recording "The Loco-Motion". Just before 9:30 AM on the
final WABC Music Radio broadcast anchored by Ron Lundy and Dan
Ingram of May 10th, 1982, Ron Lundy remarked that he was convinced
that it was actually Carole King who sang on the "The
Loco-Motion" record because the voice sounded so much like
Carole King; Dan Ingram said he believed that was true, too, and
mentioned that he had seen two different Dick Clark shows, and
that "there was a different 'Little Eva' each time.".
Since the character of "Little Eva" in the book "Uncle
Tom's Cabin" was a nice curly-haired blonde white girl who
liked black people, it may well be that the nice curly-haired
blonde white woman who likewise liked black people, Carole King,
was indeed the real "Little Eva" singing on the record -
if one compares Little Eva's "The Loco-Motion" with
Carole King's "I Feel The Earth Move", the voices do
sound virtually identical. Eva Narcissus Boyd (June 29, 1943:
April 10, 2003), known by the stage name of Little Eva and best
known for the number one single "The Loco-Motion", was
an American pop singer. Although some sources claim that her stage
name was inspired by a character from the novel Uncle Tom' Cabin,
she stated in an interview that she was named after her aunt,
which prompted her family to call her "Little Eva". Born
Eva Narcissus Boyd in Belhaven, North Carolina, Little Eva moved
to the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, New York, at a young
age. As a teenager, she worked as a maid and earned extra money as
a babysitter for songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin. It is
often claimed that Goffin and King were amused by Boyd's
particular dancing style, so they wrote "The Loco-Motion"
for her and had her record it as a demo (the record was intended
for Dee Dee Sharp). However, as King said in an interview with NPR
and in her "One to One" concert video, they knew she
could sing when they met her, and it would be just a matter of
time before they would have her record songs they wrote, the most
successful being "The Loco-Motion.". Music producer Don
Kirshner of Dimension Records was impressed by the song and Boyd's
voice and had it released. The song reached #1 in the United
States in 1962. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a
gold disc. After the success of "The Loco-Motion," Boyd
was stereotyped as a dance-craze singer and was given limited
material.
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