📜 This Day in History
April 10
847Pope Leo IV was consecrated without imperial consent following the Saracen sack of Rome.- 1809Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition began with the Austrian invasion of Bavaria, then a client state of France.
- 1866The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.
- 1944The Holocaust: Slovak Jewish prisoners Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz, later publishing a report that became one of the earliest and most detailed descriptions of the camp's mass killings.
- 1973In the deadliest aviation accident in Swiss history, Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashed into a hillside near Hochwald, killing 108 people of 145 on board.
- 2019Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project released the first image of the black hole at the center of the galaxy M87.
