On This Day - April 10th

Featured Event:

Anschluss approved in Austria (1938) 📄

In a controlled plebiscite in Austria this day in 1938, soon after Adolf Hitler's invasion of the country, 99.7 percent of Austrians approved the Anschluss (German: “Union”)—the political unification of Austria and Germany.

Other Events:

1633: Bananas went on sale for the first time in London. 🍌

1925: American author F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, which became a literary classic. 📕

1986: Halley's Comet reached the perigee (point nearest Earth) of its most recent passage near the planet. ☄️

2019: Astronomers released the first-ever image of a black hole, which is in the centre of the massive galaxy M87. 🌑

Holidays:

Day of the Builder 🇦🇿

Siblings Day 🌏

Featured Birthdays:

1929: Max Von Sydow 🇸🇪 (Actor)

1936: John Madden 🇺🇸 (NFL Coach)

1973: Roberto Carlos 🇧🇷 (Football Player)

1992: Sadio Mané 🇸🇳 (Football Player)

Featured Deaths:

1806: Horatio Gates 🇺🇸 (General)

1995: Morarji Desai 🇮🇳 (Prime Minister)

2024: O.J. Simpson 🇺🇸 (NFL Player)