Today is Saturday, April 10th
The 100th day of 2010.
There are 265 days left in the year.
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Today's Highlights in History
On April 10, 1947, Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey announced he had purchased the contract of Jackie Robinson from the Montreal Royals.
On April 10, 1847, Joseph Pulitzer, influential 19th-century American newspaper editor and publisher , was born.
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On this date in:
1847 - Newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer was born in Hungary.
1866 - The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was incorporated.
1912 - The luxury liner Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.
1925 - "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published.
1932 - Adolf Hitler came in second in voting for German president to the incumbent, Paul von Hindenburg.
1972 - Some 70 nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union, signed an agreement banning biological warfare.
1981 - Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands won election to the British Parliament.
1992 - Financier Charles Keating Jr. was sentenced in Los Angeles to nine years in prison for swindling investors when his Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed. (The convictions were later overturned).
1996 - President Bill Clinton vetoed a bill that would have outlawed a technique that opponents call partial-birth abortion.
1998 - Negotiators in Northern Ireland reached a landmark settlement that called for Protestants and Catholics to share power.
2001 - The Netherlands legalized mercy killings and assisted suicide for patients with unbearable, terminal illness.
2007 - A woman wearing an explosives vest strapped underneath her black robe blew herself up in the midst of 200 Iraqi police recruits in Muqdadiyah, killing 16.