April 10
1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition began with the Austrian invasion of Bavaria, then a client state of France.
1925 – The novel The Great Gatsby by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald (pictured) was first published by Scribner's.
1944 – The 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.
1970 – In the midst of business disagreements with his bandmates, Paul McCartney announced his departure from the Beatles.
1992 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: Dozens of Armenian civilians were massacred in the village of Maraga by Azerbaijani forces.
Gabrielle d'Estrées (d. 1599)Lew Wallace (b. 1827)Carol V. Robinson (b. 1956)
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