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Apr 10 1710 – The Statue of Anne comes into force. This was the first Act of Parliament to define and regulate copyright by the government and the courts rather than by private groups or companies.
Apr 10 1925 – Publication of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Apr 10 1934 – David Halberstam, journalist and writer, born in New York City, USA.
Apr 10 1941 – Birth of Paul Theroux, novelist and travel writer, in Medford, Massachusetts, USA.
Apr 10 1966 – Evelyn Waugh, writer and novelist, died in Combe Florey, Somerset, England, at the age of 62.
Apr 10 2001 – Publication of Jane Urquhart's fifth novel The Stone Carvers.
Apr 10 2007 – Publication of Walter Isaacson's biography of Albert Einstein called Einstein: His Life and Universe.
Apr 10 2023 – Anne Perry, writer of mystery novels, died in Los Angeles, California, USA, at the age of 84.

Apr 10 1935 – World première performance of Vaughan William's Fourth Symphony, given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Adrian Boult.
Apr 10 1964 – Last public concert performance by pianist Glenn Gould in Los Angeles, California. For the rest of his career, he concentrated on making recordings.

Apr 10 1408 – End of a cold hard winter in northern France, one of the harshest of the Middle Ages. The Seine froze over. There were 66 days of frost recorded in Paris. The cold streak started on November 10, 1407.
Apr 10 1712 – John Whitehurst, author of An Inquiry into the Original State and Formation of the Earth, born in Congleton, Cheshire, England.
Apr 10 1813 – Joseph-Louis Lagrange, mathematician and astronomer, died in Paris, France, at the age of 77.
Apr 10 1835 – Charles Darwin arrives back in Santiago, Chile, after his passage of the Andes. Of the 24 day trip he says 'never did I more deeply enjoy an equal space of time'.
Apr 10 1916 – Birth of J. Desmond Clark, palaeoanthropologist, in London, England.
Apr 10 1955 – Death of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, in New York, USA, at the age of 73. A Jesuit priest, mystic, and philosopher, as well as a geologist and paleontologist, de Chardin is best known for his association with the Peking Man finds in Zhoukoudian, China.

Apr 10 1858 – Henry Youle Hind hires Humphrey Lloyd Hime as a photographer to accompany his Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition. Hime took the first known photographs of the Canadian prairies, many of which have been much reproduced.
Apr 10 2008 – An unexpected spring snowfall dropped about 23 cm wet snow on Calgary, most of it before 10 am, breaking previous records for this day.
Apr 10 2012 – Death of artist John Weaver, in Hope, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 92. Well known for his sculptures in bronze, he created three large bronze artworks for the lobby while working as the Provincial Museum of Alberta's resident sculptor, 1966-1971.

Apr 10 1986 – Second Annual National Wildlife Week, four days of special events begins.
Apr 10 1987 – Wolves: Myth and Reality exhibition opens.
Apr 10 1987 – Third Edmonton National Wildlife Week Festival, first day of three days of special events.
Apr 10 1997 – Time Travellers IV lecture series, fourth presentation: "30,000 Years of Rock Art: from Kakadu, Australia's Northern Territory" given by Christopher Chippindale.
Apr 10 1999 – Portraits from the Inner City exhibition opens.
Apr 10 2003 – Time Travellers X lecture series, third presentation: "How and Why Do Languages Spread?" given by Lyle Campbell, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Apr 10 2012 – Death of artist John Weaver, in Hope, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 92. Well known for his sculptures in bronze, he created three large bronze artworks for the Museum lobby while working as the Museum's resident sculptor, 1966-1971.
Apr 10 2013 – Questions & Collections III: Research at the Museum lecture series, sixth of six presentation: "Speaking with Dolls" given by guest curator Bill Tracy.

This presentation has been compiled and is ©1998-2025 by
Alwynne B. Beaudoin (bluebulrush@gmail.com)
Last updated February 1, 2025

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