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Thursday, April 10, 2008

April 10

On This Day In History

1938: Anschluss approved in Austria

In a controlled plebiscite in Austria this day in 1938, soon after Adolf Hitler's invasion of the country, 99.7 percent of Austrians approved the Anschluss (German: "Union")—the political unification of Austria and Germany.

SA troops guarding a Jewish-owned business in Vienna shortly after the Anschluss

Biography Of The Day

Max von Sydow

Swedish actor Max von Sydow, perhaps best known for his dour, brooding characterizations in films directed by Ingmar Bergman and whose film career spanned more than half a century, was born this day in 1929.

Max von Sydow and Pelle Hvenegaard in Pelle the Conqueror, which won the Oscar

More Events On This Day In History

2003

2003

Haiti officially recognized Vodou as a religion

2001

2001

The Netherlands passed a bill permitting euthanasia, the first such national law in the world.

1988

After taking a decade to build, the Seto Great Bridge, spanning the Inland Sea in Japan, was opened to traffic.

1973

Pakistan adopted its third constitution, shifting the role of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto from president to prime minister.

1972

1972

The development, production, and stockpiling of biological weapons were outlawed by the Biological Weapons Convention, signed by more than 150 countries.

1925

The first government led by French premier Édouard Herriot, a Radical Party leader who had been put into office by the left-wing coalition Cartel des Gauches, fell.

1583

Hugo Grotius, the Dutch jurist and scholar whose legal masterpiece, De Jure Belli ac Pacis (1625; On the Law of War and Peace), was one of the first great contributions to modern international law, was born.