Idi Amin

The Fall of Kampala was a battle during the Uganda–Tanzania War in April 1979, in which the combined forces of Tanzania and the Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF) attacked and captured the Ugandan capital, Kampala. Tanzanian forces were repulsing an invasion launched by Ugandan President Idi Amin (pictured). After routing the Ugandans and their Libyan allies in Entebbe, the Tanzanians moved on Kampala. They entered the city with UNLF forces on 10 April, facing minimal resistance but hampered by their lack of maps. The fall of the city was announced the next day. The Tanzanians cleared out the remaining pockets of opposition, while jubilant civilians celebrated through indiscriminate, destructive looting. Amin was deposed, his forces were scattered, and a new government was installed. The battle marked the first time in the modern history of the continent that an African state seized the capital of another African country and deposed its government. ( Full article...)

Chinese alligator

• ... that the critically endangered Chinese alligator (pictured) may have helped inspire the mythology of the Chinese dragon?
• ... that Alfons Zgrzebniok commanded the first two of the three Silesian Uprisings?
• ... that Marianne Williamson, a candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, has called for $100 billion in reparations for slavery?
• ... that Siegfried Vogel, a bass at the Berlin State Opera from 1965, appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow?
• ... that Sternaspis scutata swallows mud?
• ... that American landscape and still life painter Ida O'Keeffe omitted her last name in her first exhibition to avoid comparison with her sister?
• ... that the Tugnet Ice House, the largest surviving ice house in the UK, is now a dolphin watching centre?
• ... that Indian MP Sumedhanand Saraswati is also a Hindu monk?

Kyle Guy

• In basketball, the Virginia Cavaliers defeat the Texas Tech Red Raiders to win the NCAA Division I Men's Championship ( MOP Kyle Guy pictured).
• In rowing, the women's and men's crews of Cambridge defeat Oxford in their respective Boat Races.
• In Iran, widespread flooding since late March kills at least 70 people.
• Zuzana Čaputová is elected president of Slovakia, becoming the country's first female president and its youngest.

April 10

Big Ben in 1858

• 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition began when Austria invaded Bavaria.
• 1858 – Big Ben (pictured), the bell in the Palace of Westminster's clock tower in London, was cast after the original bell cracked during testing.
• 1925 – The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published.
• 1959 – Crown Prince Akihito, the future Emperor of Japan, wedded Michiko, the first commoner to marry into the Japanese Imperial Family.
• 2009 – Fijian President Ratu Josefa Iloilo announced that he had suspended the constitution and assumed all governance in the country after it was ruled that the government of Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama was illegal.

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