On This Day:
Friday April 10, 2015 This is the 100th day of the year, with 265 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: golf balls Golf balls were originally made of wood, but in the early 17th century the feather ball was introduced. It was a slow and expensive process to manufacture these balls, which consisted of boiled feathers compressed into a hole left in a stitched leather cover. The invention of the cheaper gutta-percha ball about 1848 helped to make the game more popular. Regulation balls have a maximum weight of 1.62 ounces (45.93 grams) and a minimum diameter of 1.68 inches (4.27 centimeters). In U.S. competition the velocity of the ball may not exceed 250 feet (75 meters) per second when measured under prescribed conditions on an apparatus maintained by the USGA.
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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