On This Day:
Thursday April 10, 2014 This is the 100th day of the year, with 265 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: table tennis Table tennis was invented in England in the early 20th century. The game was originally known by the trade name Ping-Pong; the generic name table tennis was adopted in 1921. The International Table Tennis Federation, founded in 1926 by nine nations, now counts 200 nations as members and the game has been an Olympic sport since 1988. On April 10, 1971, the first group of Americans allowed into China after the Communist takeover in 1949 was the American table tennis team.
Holidays Feast day of St. Hedda of Peterborough, Saints Beocca and Hethor, St. Bademus, St. Macarius of Ghent, St. Paternus of Abdinghhof, St. Michael de Sanctis, St. Fulbert of Chartres, and the Martyrs under the Danes.
United Kingdom: Salvation Army Founder's Day.
Events 1790 - The U.S. patent system was established.
1849 - The safety pin was patented in the U.S. by Walter Hunt of New York.
1866 - The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was incorporated.
1912 - The RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.
1916 - The first PGA championship was held, in Bronxville, New York.
1925 - The novel "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published.
1932 - German president Paul von Hindenburg was re-elected; Adolf Hitler came in second.
1942 - The day after the surrender of the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese, the 75,000 Filipino and American troops captured on the Bataan Peninsula began a forced march to a prison camp near Cabanatuan.
1972 - The United States and the Soviet Union joined some 70 nations in signing an agreement banning biological warfare.
1974 - Golda Meir announced her resignation as Prime Minister of Israel.
2003 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill creating a national Amber Alert system and strengthening child pornography laws.
Births 1829 - William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army.
1847 - Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman and publisher, founder of Pulitzer Prize.
1870 - Vladimir Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov), Russian premier (1917-1924).
1915 - Harry Morgan (Bratsburg), American award-winning actor.
1932 - Omar Sharif (Michael Shalhoub), actor.
Deaths 1966 - Evelyn Waugh, English novelist.
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