This Day, That Year – April 10

The RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton for her maiden and final voyage on this day in 1912.

Did you know that:

• Walter Hunt patented the first safety pin on this day in 1849
• Scribner’s Sons published “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald on this day in 1925
• Thiokol synthetic rubber was first produced in Yardley, New Jersey on this day in 1930