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Chicago Tribune
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Today in History: Northern Ireland peace talks conclude
Today is Thursday, April 10, the 100th day of 2025. There are 265 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 10, 1998, the Northern Ireland peace talks concluded as negotiators signed the Good Friday Agreement, a landmark settlement to end 30 years of bitter rivalries and bloody attacks. Also on this date: In 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded in New York by Henry Bergh. In 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, bound for New York on its ill-fated maiden voyage. In 1963, the nuclear submarine USS Thresher (SSN-593) sank during deep-diving tests east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, killing all 129 aboard. In 1971, the U.S. table tennis team arrived in China at the invitation of the communist government for a goodwill visit that came to be known as 'ping-pong diplomacy.' In 2019, scientists released the first image ever made of a black hole, revealing a fiery, doughnut-shape object in a galaxy 55 million light-years from earth. Today's Birthdays: Labor leader-activist Dolores Huerta is 95. Football Hall of Famer Mel Blount is 77. Author Anne Lamott is 71. Actor Peter MacNicol is 71. Singer-producer Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds is 66. Musician Brian Setzer is 66. Singer Kenny Lattimore is 55. Rapper-producer Q-Tip (A Tribe Called Quest) is 55. Actor David Harbour is 50. Singer Shemekia Copeland is 46. Actor Charlie Hunnam is 45. Actor-singer Mandy Moore is 41. Actor Haley Joel Osment is 37. Country musician Maren Morris is 35. Actor-singer AJ Michalka is 34. Actor Daisy Ridley is 33. Singer-actor Sofia Carson is 32.
Yahoo
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
On This Day, April 10: 'Great Gatsby' by Fitzgerald published
April 10 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1790, merchant Robert Gray docked at Boston Harbor, becoming the first American to circumnavigate the globe. He had sailed from Boston in September 1787. In 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded by Henry Bergh. In 1912, the Titanic left port in Southampton, England, beginning its fateful voyage. In 1916, the Professional Golfers Association of America was founded. In 1919, Emiliano Zapata, a leader of peasants and indigenous people during the Mexican Revolution, was ambushed and killed in Morelos by government forces. In 1925, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published. It would become the subject of several small and big screen, and stage adaptations over the decades. In 1942, the Bataan Death March, during which thousands of Filipinos and Americans died, began in the Philippines. Hoyt R. Haynie of El Dorado, Ark., who survived the 55-mile march, but saw many of his friends die, would later proclaim, "I'm an American, I'm proud to be an American and as far as I'm concerned, that's all there is to be." In 1963, the U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher sank in the Atlantic Ocean 220 miles east of Boston. All 129 men on board were lost. Investigators determined the vessel sank due to a piping failure. In 1971, the U.S. table tennis team arrived in China, the first U.S. group to penetrate the so-called Bamboo Curtain since the 1950s. In 1972, during his first visit to the United States in 20 years, movie pioneer and comic Charlie Chaplin accepted an honorary Academy Award for his "incalculable" contribution to the art of filmmaking. In 1991, an Italian ferry headed to Sardinia collided with an oil tanker near Leghorn, Italy, killing 151 ferry passengers and crew members. The tanker crew survived. In 1998, Britain and Ireland reached an agreement aimed at ending the long and bloody dispute over the future of Northern Ireland. In 2006, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was narrowly beaten in his bid for another term by former premier Romano Prodi. In 2010, Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, Maria, and top government officials were among scores killed when their plane crashed while trying to land in a thick fog in western Russia. In 2014, CBS said Stephen Colbert would replace David Letterman on The Late Show when the longtime host stepped down in 2015. In 2016, a fireworks explosion at the Paravur Puttingal Devi Temple in Paravur, India, left 106 dead and 400 injured. In 2019, an international team of scientists shared the first image of a supermassive black hole. In 2022, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan lost a no-confidence vote by Parliament and was ousted from power. Nawaz Sharif replaced him.
