WHAT HAPPENED ON 10. APRIL
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On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America. (10. April 1887)

British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of the Law. (10. April 1904)

The Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her only voyage. (10. April 1912)

The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City. (10. April 1916)

Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos. (10. April 1919)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons. (10. April 1925)

World War II: The Axis powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power. (10. April 1941)

Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp. (10. April 1944)

Warner Bros. premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax. (10. April 1953)

The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months. (10. April 1957)

Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, marries Michiko. (10. April 1959)

129 American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea. (10. April 1963)

Shipwreck of the New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine at the mouth of Wellington Harbour. (10. April 1968)

Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons. (10. April 1970)

Ping-pong diplomacy: 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. (10. April 1971)

20 days after he is kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is murdered by communist guerrillas. (10. April 1972)

Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong. (10. April 1972)

Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam. (10. April 1972)

Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons. (10. April 1972)

A British Vickers Vanguard turboprop aircraft crashed in a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104 people. (10. April 1973)