APRIL 10
1959:Michiko Shoda becomes the first commoner to marry into the Japanese imperial family when she weds Crown Prince (now Emperor) Akihito in Tokyo’s Imperial Palace.
1896: Twenty-three year old Greek postal worker Spiridon Louis wins the first Olympic marathon, turning in a time of 2 hours, 58 minutes, and 50 seconds on the final day of the first modern Summer Olympic Games, held in Athens, Greece. The 1896 marathon passes by the tomb of the Greek warriors killed at the Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. According to legend, after the Battle of Marathon, the heroic runner Pheidippides ran 26 miles to bring the news of the Greek victory over the Persians back to Athens, dying from exhaustion after he had reached his destination.
1925: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, is published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in New York City.
1896: Twenty-three year old Greek postal worker Spiridon Louis wins the first Olympic marathon, turning in a time of 2 hours, 58 minutes, and 50 seconds on the final day of the first modern Summer Olympic Games, held in Athens, Greece. The 1896 marathon passes by the tomb of the Greek warriors killed at the Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. According to legend, after the Battle of Marathon, the heroic runner Pheidippides ran 26 miles to bring the news of the Greek victory over the Persians back to Athens, dying from exhaustion after he had reached his destination.
1925: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, is published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in New York City.
1930:Synthetic rubber first developed by German chemical company IG Farben
1925:The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York, New York by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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