THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2008

Today is Thursday, April 10, the 101st day of 2008. There are 265 days left in the year.

1872 _ First National black convention meets in New Orleans

1916 _ First professional golf tournament held

1923 _ Hitler demands ``hatred and more hatred" in Berlin

1925 _ F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes ``The Great Gatsby"

1930 _ Synthetic rubber first produced

1945 _ U.S. troops land on Tsugen Shima, Okinawa

1960 _ Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill

1971 _ U.S. table tennis team arrives in People's Republic of China

1979 _ Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian and a Bulgarian

1995 _ NYC bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more