Today is Thursday, April 10, on the 100th of 2025. 265 days remain in the year.
Today in history:
On April 10, 1998, peace conversations in Northern Ireland concluded when the negotiators signed the agreement on Good Friday, a historical agreement to end 30 years of bitter rivalries and bloody attacks.
Also on this date:
In 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty towards Animals was founded in New York by Henry Bergh.
In 1912, the British RMS Titanic coating sailed from Southampton, England, bound for New York in its discomfort inaugural trip.
In 1919, the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata was killed by loyal forces to President Venustiano Carranza.
In 1963, the Uss USS (SSN-593) nuclear submarine sank due to deep diving tests east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, killing at 129 on board.
In 1971, the US table tennis team arrived in China by invitation from the communist government for a goodwill that was known as “Ping-Pong diplomacy.”
In 2019, the scientists launched the first image made of a black hole, revealing a burning object in a mass in a galaxy 55 million light years from the earth.
Today’s birthday:
- The activist labor leader Dolores Huerta is 95.
- The member of the Mel Blouunt Football Hall is 77.
- Author Anne Lamott is 71 years old.
- The actor Peter Macnicol is 71 years old.
- Producer Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds is 66 years old.
- The musician Brian Setzer is 66 years old.
- The singer Kenny Lattimore is 55 years old.
- The rapper producer Q-Tip (a tribe called Quest) is 55.
- Actor David Harbor is 50 years old.
- Singer Shemekia Copeland is 46 years old.
- Actor Charlie Hunnam is 45 years old.
- Actor-Singer Mandy Moore is 41 years old.
- Actor Haley Joel Osment is 37 years old.
- The country musician Maren Morris is 35 years old.
- The actor-Singer Aj Michala (Mish-Al’-Kah) is 34.
- Actor Daisy Ridley is 33 years old.
- The Sofia Carson singing factor is 32 years old.
