THE DAY IN HISTORY · APRIL 10
April 10 in history
What happened on April 10: 3 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1848, 1925 and 1993, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Kennington Common Chartist rally
10 Apr 1848 — Chartists gather to present their third petition, claimed at 5.7 million signatures. The government swears in thousands of special constables, the march on Parliament is called off, and the petition goes by cab.
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— Tsaritsyn renamed Stalingrad
10 Apr 1925 — Tsaritsyn on the Volga was renamed Stalingrad to honour Stalin’s inflated part in defending it during the civil war, the first city to bear his name. In 1942–43 the battle for it turned the war, as The War Room shows; it became Volgograd in 1961.
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— Assassination of Chris Hani
10 Apr 1993 — A white extremist murders Chris Hani, the popular Communist and MK leader, hoping to ignite a race war. Mandela — not the state president — calms the country on television. The transition holds by a thread.
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