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🌟 Editor's Note
Good morning — it’s Friday, April 10. Today, we're taking a look at the biggest volcanic eruption ever, the debut of safety pins, the Titanic's voyage, the first color 3-D movie, the assassination of Emiliano Zapata, Paul McCartney's exit from the Beatles, and a bunch of other cool stuff—quick and to the point!
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🚀 Time Machine
-1815
Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies erupts catastrophically, killing around 71,000 people and causing a global volcanic winter.
-1849
New York mechanic Walter Hunt patents a metal invention with a spring called a safety pin.
-1866
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was founded in New York by Henry Bergh.
-1858
Whitechapel Bell Foundry recasts Big Ben, a 13.76-tonne bell.
-1912
RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton on her maiden (and final) voyage.
-1919
Emiliano Zapata, a peasant and Indigenous leader in the Mexican Revolution, was ambushed and killed by government forces in Morelos.
-1953
House of Wax, the first color 3-D movie, premieres in New York.
-1970
Paul McCartney announces he's leaving the Beatles in a press release promoting his solo album.
-1972
70 nations, including the USSR, agreed to ban biological weapons at the Biological Weapons Convention.
-1998
The British and Irish governments signed the Good Friday Agreement (Belfast Agreement) for Northern Ireland.
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📸 Snapshot
Wormwood Street, London, after the IRA detonated a truck bomb on 24 April, 1993
🗨️ Last Words
“Swing low, sweet chariot.”