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The 27th Infantry Division Savska was an infantry formation of the Royal Yugoslav Army's 4th Army during the German-led Axis invasion of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in April 1941. Commanded by August Marić, the division was largely made up of Croat troops, many of whom saw the Germans as potential liberators from Serbian oppression. It lacked modern arms and sufficient ammunition, and like all Yugoslav infantry divisions of the time, relied on animal transport. Upon mobilisation, the division began to disintegrate due to fifth column actions, rebellion and desertion. Its chief of staff countermanded orders for the sabotage of a key bridge over the Drava river at Zákány, allowing the German 14th Panzer Division to cross. In a single day, with overwhelming air support, the panzers brushed aside the mostly Serbian remnants of the division and captured Zagreb, covering nearly 160 km (100 mi) and meeting little resistance (Yugoslav generals pictured). (This article is part of a featured topic: 1st Army Group (Kingdom of Yugoslavia).)
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- Former president of the United States Donald Trump (pictured) is arraigned on 34 charges of falsifying business records.
- Finland joins NATO as its 31st member.
- In the Andorran parliamentary election, the liberal coalition, led by Prime Minister Xavier Espot, wins an absolute majority of seats in the General Council.
- In NCAA Division I basketball, the LSU Tigers win the women's championship and the UConn Huskies win the men's championship.
On this day
April 10: Day of Valor in the Philippines (1942)
- 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition began with the Austrian invasion of Bavaria, then a client state of France.
- 1925 – The novel The Great Gatsby by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published by Scribner's.
- 1970 – In the midst of business disagreements with his bandmates, Paul McCartney announced his departure from the Beatles.
- 1973 – In the deadliest aviation accident in Swiss history, Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashed into a hillside near Hochwald, killing 108 people of 145 on board.
- 2019 – Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project released the first image of a black hole (depicted), located at the center of the galaxy M87.
- Gabrielle d'Estrées (d. 1599)
- Lew Wallace (b. 1827)
- Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri (b. 1917)
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Zayn Malik, an English singer, has received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, which began in 2010 through the formation of the boy band One Direction. He received two Pop Awards at the BMI London Awards for co-writing the band's songs "Story of My Life" and "Night Changes". In 2016, Malik released his debut solo studio album, Mind of Mine, which was preceded by two singles, "Pillowtalk" and "Like I Would". The former won the Pop Award at the 2017 BMI London Awards and received the Popjustice £20 Music Prize. It also received several nominations, including British Single of the Year and British Video of the Year at the 2017 Brit Awards. Malik collaborated with American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for the song "I Don't Wanna Live Forever", which was included on the soundtrack to the 2017 film Fifty Shades Darker. It won awards at the 2018 BMI Pop Awards, iHeartRadio Titanium Awards, and MTV's Millennial Awards and Video Music Awards. (Full list...)
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Project Mercury was the first human-spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. It was one of the first projects of NASA, which was created as a response to the Soviet Union's 1957 launch of Sputnik 1, the first satellite in Earth orbit. The program's goals were to orbit a crewed spacecraft around Earth, investigate the pilot's ability to function in space, and to recover both pilot and spacecraft safely. The Soviet Union won the race to put the first human into orbit when Yuri Gagarin traveled in Vostok 1 in 1961, while the US launched its first astronaut on a suborbital flight in the same year, and achieved crewed orbital flight in 1962 when John Glenn made three orbits around the Earth. The Mercury project's missions were followed by millions on radio and television around the world, and it laid the groundwork for Project Gemini, which carried two astronauts in each capsule and perfected space docking maneuvers essential for crewed lunar landings in the subsequent Apollo program, announced a few weeks after the first crewed Mercury flight. This NASA illustration compares the relative sizes and launch positions of the spacecraft and rockets of Project Mercury (small) with those of Gemini (medium) and Apollo (large). Illustration credit: Davis Paul Meltzer
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