On This Day (April 10)

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• 1606 – The Charter of the Virginia Company of London was established by Royal Charter by King James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
• 1815 – Mount Tambora in Indonesia began one of the most violent volcanic eruptions in recorded history, killing at least 71,000 people.
• 1847 - Joseph Pulitzer, American journalist and publisher born. (d. 1911) (Pulitzer was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and (along with William Randolph Hearst) for originating yellow journalism.)
  
  
  Joseph Pulitzer
  
  
• 1865 - American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
• 1912 - The RMS Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage.
• 1919 – Mexican Revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata was shot to death near Ciudad Ayala, Morelos.
• 1925 - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York, New York by Charles Scribner's Sons.
• 1955 - Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist and theologian died (b. 1881) (Teilhard de Chardin was a French philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking Man.)
• 1959 – Crown Prince Akihito, the future Emperor of Japan, wedded Michiko, the first commoner to marry into the Japanese Imperial Family.
• 1979 - Nino Rota, Italian composer died (b. 1911) (Rota was an Italian composer best known for his work on film scores, notably The Godfather series and the films of Federico Fellini.)
  
  
  “The Godfather” Main Theme
  
  
  
  Romeo & Juliet “A Time For Us”
  
  
• 1998 – The Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom signed the Belfast Agreement in Belfast, a major step in the Northern Ireland peace process.