i got born

Died:
1979 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (b. 1911)

Catastophic Events:
1979 - On the day known to meteorologists as "Terrible Tuesday", a tornado hits in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
The Wichita Falls Tornado is the tornado event that occurred on April 10, 1979. This tornado was the most notable of thirteen tornadoes that ripped through the Red River Valley on the day commonly called "Terrible Tuesday" by many meterologists.

1633 - Bananas on sale in England for the first time.
1790 - United States Patent system established
1912 - The RMS Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and last voyage.
1919 - Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
1925 - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York, New York by Charles Scribner's Sons.
1970 - Paul McCartney announces that The Beatles have broken up.
1971 - Cold War: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China host the U.S. table tennis team for a weeklong visit.
1978 - Volkswagen becomes the first non-American automobile manufacturer to build cars in the United States, opening a plant in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, to build the Rabbit economy car. (The plant, which later builds Golfs and Jettas, closes in July 1988.)