Wikipedia:Main Page history/2015 April 10

Sale (Town Hall pictured) is a town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Cheshire, it is on the south bank of the River Mersey, 5.2 miles (8.4 km) southwest of Manchester. In 2001, it had a population of 55,000. Evidence of Stone Age, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon activity has been discovered locally. By the 17th century, Sale had a cottage industry manufacturing garthweb, the woven material from which horses' saddle girths were made. The Bridgewater Canal reached the town in 1765, stimulating Sale's urbanisation. The arrival of the railway in 1849 triggered Sale's growth as a commuter town for Manchester, leading to an influx of middle-class residents; by the end of the 19th century the town's population had more than tripled. Sale's urban growth resulted in a merger with neighbouring Ashton upon Mersey, following the Local Government Act 1929. The increase in population led to the granting of a charter in 1935, giving Sale honorific borough status. Since then, Sale has continued to thrive as a commuter town, supported by its proximity to the M60 motorway and the Manchester Metrolink network. Sale Sharks rugby union and Sale Harriers athletics club were founded in Sale, although both have now relocated elsewhere. (Full article...)

Part of the Towns in Trafford series, one of Wikipedia's featured topics.

Recently featured: Ulysses S. Grant – Fanny Bullock Workman – I Never Liked You

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

• ... that thousands of sacred monkeys (example pictured) inhabit the area around Saka Tunggal Mosque?
• ... that when Margery Blackie treated Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, she brought arsenic, death cap mushrooms, and Gila monster venom?
• ... that 650 T48 Gun Motor Carriages were given to the Soviets during World War II?
• ... that The Infiltrator is the true story of DEA agent Robert Mazur, who helped bust Pablo Escobar's money-laundering organization?
• ... that Della Warrior, the first female chair of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe, developed a permanent campus for the Institute of American Indian Arts?
• ... that tea production in Bangladesh began in 1840 when the first tea garden in the Indian subcontinent was set up in the port city of Chittagong?
• ... that in a career spanning six decades, Abu Bakr Muhammad al-Madhara'i served three ruling dynasties of Medieval Egypt—​the Tulunids, Abbasids, and Ikhshidids?
• ... that it is impossible to identify some crayfish species, such as Procambarus natchitochae, without looking at the male reproductive organs or knowing the collection location?

• Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is found guilty on thirty charges related to the Boston Marathon bombing.
• In basketball, the Duke Blue Devils defeat the Wisconsin Badgers to win the NCAA Men's Championship (MOP Tyus Jones pictured).
• A preliminary deal is reached between Iran and six other countries regarding Iran's nuclear program.
• Al-Shabaab gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing more than 140 people.
• Russian fishing trawler Dalniy Vostok sinks, killing at least 56 people.
• Muhammadu Buhari is elected President of Nigeria.
• Islam Karimov is re-elected President of Uzbekistan.

Ongoing:

Yemeni Civil War – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

Recent deaths:

Elmer Lach – Robert H. Schuller – Manoel de Oliveira

April 10: Good Friday (Eastern Christianity, 2015)

• 1815 – Mount Tambora in Indonesia began one of the most violent volcanic eruptions in recorded history, killing at least 71,000 people, and affecting worldwide temperatures for the next two years.
• 1858 – Big Ben, the bell in the Palace of Westminster's clock tower in London, was cast after the original bell had cracked during testing.
• 1941 – World War II: The Independent State of Croatia was established, with Ustaše leader Ante Pavelić as head of the puppet government of the Axis powers.
• 1959 – Crown Prince Akihito, the future Emperor of Japan, wedded Michiko (pictured), 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.

More anniversaries: April 9 – April 10 – April 11

{| style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse; "

|style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0;"| File:Rekha Raju DS 2.jpg

|style="padding:0 6px 0 0"|

Rekha Raju performing Mohiniyattam, a classical dance form from Kerala, India. Believed to have originated in the 16th century CE, this dance form was popularized in the nineteenth century by Swathi Thirunal, the Maharaja of the state of Travancore, and Vadivelu, one of the Thanjavur Quartet. The dance, which has about 40 different movements, involves the swaying of broad hips and the gentle side-to-side movements.

Photo: Augustus Binu