SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 2010

Today is Friday, April 10, the 100th day of 2010. There are 265 days left in the year.

1516 _ First ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice

1790 _ Robert Gray is first American to circumnavigate the Earth

1868 _ First performance of John Brahms' ``Ein german Requiem"

1896 _ Greek runner Spiridon Loues wins first modern Olympic marathon in Athens (2:58:50)

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

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

1930 _ Synthetic rubber first produced

1938 _ Austria becomes a state of Germany

1946 _ First election for Japanese Diet

1972 _ U.S., USSR and 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons